AHC: American Sengoku Jidai

With a POD any time after the US Constitution is adopted (not the Articles of Confederation, that's too easy!), have it so that the US central government loses all real power and the country devolves into warring local units, before being reunited however many years later.
 

jocay

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This may be an ASB-esque solution but have the Yellowstone Caldera erupt early on in the duration of the American Civil War. I'm talking during the aftermath of battles like Bull Run and Wilson's Creek where the Union was demoralized and Confederate victory is the most likely. Not just the United States or nascent Confederacy but the entirety of North America is covered in ash and will in months' time experience a combination of crop failures, mass starvation, and death, not to mention the effects that would occur for the remainder of the world. The United States and Confederacy devolves into warring city and state governments vying for what resources that haven't been destroyed due to Yellowstone.
 
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The government is pretty much totally captured or killed in the war of 1812 when the British sack Washington, the states continue to fight after this and the war ends more or less OTL. After the war however things do not go well. A new Congress is formed and presidential elections are held with some random guy being elected the nations new president. However the new government wields very little power and individual states which since the war have been pretty much doing their own thing resist the governments authority.

The nation expands westward as per OTL, however rather than new states being created the solution is to simply add on to the territory of existing states. Slavery also expands and grows. Texas is established and forms its own government which becomes a major challenger in the region. Mexico and British North America gobble up the present US west coast and southwest.

In the 1860-1900s a civil war breaks out in the nation as territorial disputes and other issues spill over into open violence. The largely marginalised US Congress is seen as the way to end the war and some states pledge their support to the central government, forming a Continental army and unified military front against non Congressional forces and routing them. The nation after the war gives increased power to the President in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the war.

Just a quick and dirty idea. Another idea I had was having the country work somewhat like the Holy Roman empire, with the states being allowed a high degree of freedom.
 
During the Quasi-War the US was riddled with rumors of an impending French invasion. (That's by fleet, not by caravans)

So make this threat real. Boney sends his best forces over en masse. America is entirely occupied, save one plucky band of high school students who retreat up into the mountains and declare themselves "Wolveriiiiinesssss!!" and fight off the commie, uh, froggy hordes.
 
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