Will Kürlich Kerl
Banned
The location of the capital was a major point of discussion back then in a barely unified United States. What do you give the south in exchange for the capital being in New England?
Of course, the capital being in the heart of what became abolitionist territiry could lead to slavery tensions getting even worse, faster...
I like the idea of a timeline with Boston as the capital; I think it's a much nicer city than DC.
Of course, if Boston is the capital, there will be no significant city on the site of OTL's Washington, DC.
How about have the Northern colonies of the British Empire, like Nova Scotia and Quebec, secede from Great Britain instead of Georgia and the two Carolinas, like what happened in Glen's Dominion of Southern America TL. Then, instead of being way too far north, Boston is smack dab in the middle of the USA.