AHC: How to get the United States to annex or buy North, Central and Caribbean America territories b

The challenge is this:
With a POD between 1774/76 until 1920, you must unify North America (including Greenland, St. Pierre & Miquelon and Bermuda, Hawaii), Central America (including Panama and the St. Andrew Archipelago), the Caribbean (including Curaçao, Aruba and Trinidad & Tobago) into one country before 1920.

* But with some rules:
This country must have Spanish, English and French as co-official languages.

The country may respect the religion of each region but if possible, there may be "programs" to make Protestants gain a majority in Catholic regions.

Seek ways to reduce Racism and reduce cases of discrimination by at least 50%.

If possible, limit the use of weapons

If possible, have at least two other political parties than OTL.

* Some of this information may be used:
United States has at least 6 time zones

The Electoral College exists but is reformed and there is a second round where two candidates pass if they do not obtain the required number of voters to win.

Representatives last 4 years instead of 2 as in OTL.

There may be rights for Native Americans similar to what Canada does

If possible, keep the capital in Washington DC

If possible, slavery is abolished and no war of secession occurs (depending on the year of the POD)

There should be at least one Hispanic or French Canadian President by 1920.

There should be some kind of equality between Anglo Americans and Hispanics in politics and other jobs.

Do you accept the challenge? What would you do to reunify half the continent before 1920?
 
Are you asking "how they would be unified" or "how they would be under some sort of USA"?

The former is probably easier to handle under a failed ARW with future NA countries forming an EU analogue.
 
Are you asking "how they would be unified" or "how they would be under some sort of USA"?
The point is to look for a POD or several PODs where the United States annexes, conquers, buys territory from all over the continent from the Arctic to Panama. This USA would have the Constitution of 1789 or very similar in force, and one of its Presidents would be George Washington.
I will give you an example, the USA would annex Mexico completely in 1848 but still buy Alaska in 1867.
 
The point is to look for a POD or several PODs where the United States annexes, conquers, buys territory from all over the continent from the Arctic to Panama. This USA would have the Constitution of 1789 or very similar in force, and one of its Presidents would be George Washington.
I will give you an example, the USA would annex Mexico completely in 1848 but still buy Alaska in 1867.
I would suggest making that clear in both the title and opening post as a union of North and Central America doesn't have to be a US.
 
I can imagine Spain grabbing the Oregon region with a slightly different Nootka affair, and in such a scenario the Viceroyalty of New Spain would encompass Central America, a lot of North America and a lot of the Caribbean. But that's not all of North America or the Caribbean.
 
Hmm, what I mean is that there must only be one country that spreads across North America, Central America and the Caribbean before 1920.
 
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The challenge is this:
With a POD between 1774/76 until 1920, you must unify North America (including Greenland, St. Pierre & Miquelon and Bermuda, Hawaii), Central America (including Panama and the St. Andrew Archipelago), the Caribbean (including Curaçao, Aruba and Trinidad & Tobago) into one country before 1920.
* But with some rules:
This country must have Spanish, English and French as co-official languages.
The country may respect the religion of each region but if possible, there may be "programs" to make Protestants gain a majority in Catholic regions.
Seek ways to reduce Racism and reduce cases of discrimination by at least 50%.
If possible, limit the use of weapons
If possible, have at least two other political parties than OTL.
* Some of this information may be used:
United States has at least 6 time zones
The Electoral College exists but is reformed and there is a second round where two candidates pass if they do not obtain the required number of voters to win.
Representatives last 4 years instead of 2 as in OTL.
There may be rights for Native Americans similar to what Canada does
If possible, keep the capital in Washington DC
If possible, slavery is abolished and no war of secession occurs (depending on the year of the POD)
There should be at least one Hispanic or French Canadian President by 1920.
There should be some kind of equality between Anglo Americans and Hispanics in politics and other jobs.
Do you accept the challenge? What would you do to reunify half the continent before 1920?


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Everything that is marked in red/brown including Hawaii is a single country.

How could this be done in compliance with most of the rules/conditions mentioned above?

or does it end up being ASB? and he's worth dreaming about?
 
Capturing Canada, Bahamas, and Bermuda during the war of independence is possible. Same for the Floridas.

The US sides with Britain in the Napoleonic Wars and picks up France's Caribbean colonies and (more controversially) occupies Hispanola.

El Salvador's 1832 request to join the United States is accepted here.

At the end of the Mexican-American War, the US annexes Baja, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, and Nuevo Leone (which Polk wanted OTL) as well as the Republic of Yucatan (whose annexation passed the House OTL but failed in the Senate).

The Ostend Manifesto is enough to get the US Cuba and Puerto Rico in the 1850s.

The 1849 US cession of El Tigre island by Honduras to the United States is more permanent here.

William Walker's gambit in Latin America results in the US getting Nicaragua. Surrounded by the US, Honduras agrees to become an autonomous protectorate of the United States.

During the Civil War rump Mexico tries to regain territory from the US. The US proceeds to react very poorly to this and occupies and annexes Mexico along with reconquering the Confederacy here.

US purchases Alaska and the Danish West Indies in the 1860s. Also Greenland. Denmark decides that it'd like to take the money and invest it in expanding the Danish Gold Coast.

France sets up a Panama Canal TTL. The US gets grumpy about this and when a World War breaks out eventually it pressures France into ceding it. Or else.

The US, controlling just about the whole hemisphere, pressures Guatemala and Costa Rica into accepting the same deal Honduras did.
 
The US sides with Britain in the Napoleonic Wars and picks up France's Caribbean colonies and (more controversially) occupies Hispanola.

Not feasible. If Britain and France, both countries with much more powerful armies and navies, could not occupy Hispaniola at the same time, why would the much weaker US succeed?

William Walker's gambit in Latin America results in the US getting Nicaragua. Surrounded by the US, Honduras agrees to become an autonomous protectorate of the United States.

During the Civil War rump Mexico tries to regain territory from the US. The US proceeds to react very poorly to this and occupies and annexes Mexico along with reconquering the Confederacy here.

Neither of these are feasible. William Walker had zero chances of winning in Nicaragua, especially not when his presence resulted in all of Central America uniting to drive him out. The US also has very slim chances of occupying and annexing Mexico. The OTL successful Mexican-American war was just because they were annexing sparsely populated areas, America would find itself in a much more difficult position if they tried to full annex the densely populated Valley of Mexico.
 
Capturing Canada, Bahamas, and Bermuda during the war of independence is possible. Same for the Floridas.

The US sides with Britain in the Napoleonic Wars and picks up France's Caribbean colonies and (more controversially) occupies Hispanola.

El Salvador's 1832 request to join the United States is accepted here.

At the end of the Mexican-American War, the US annexes Baja, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, and Nuevo Leone (which Polk wanted OTL) as well as the Republic of Yucatan (whose annexation passed the House OTL but failed in the Senate).

The Ostend Manifesto is enough to get the US Cuba and Puerto Rico in the 1850s.

The 1849 US cession of El Tigre island by Honduras to the United States is more permanent here.

William Walker's gambit in Latin America results in the US getting Nicaragua. Surrounded by the US, Honduras agrees to become an autonomous protectorate of the United States.

During the Civil War rump Mexico tries to regain territory from the US. The US proceeds to react very poorly to this and occupies and annexes Mexico along with reconquering the Confederacy here.

US purchases Alaska and the Danish West Indies in the 1860s. Also Greenland. Denmark decides that it'd like to take the money and invest it in expanding the Danish Gold Coast.

France sets up a Panama Canal TTL. The US gets grumpy about this and when a World War breaks out eventually it pressures France into ceding it. Or else.

The US, controlling just about the whole hemisphere, pressures Guatemala and Costa Rica into accepting the same deal Honduras did.

Then on April 1, 1920 the remaining independent nations of Greater North America (Jamaica, Trinidaf and Tobago, the Dutch.West Indies) issue a joint statement saying that they will bow to US pressure and join. On Aptil 2nd it is revealed that thr announcement was actually an April fool's prank. But for one day in 1920, the US did hold dominion over all of Greater North America.
 
For a more serious suggestion, I think you'd need a very different USA that sees itself as a federation/alliance of ALL postcolonial American states.

For example, maybe a "no Trafalgar" scenario where Napoleonic Spain still had the navy to project power in the Americas results in a bloodier and harder-fought independence struggle for the former Spanish empire.

If Spanish America achieves independence only through a close alliance between the former colonies brokered by the USA, then I could see this alliance growing into a federation in the longer term. But you'd need the USA to be on the side of Mexico, Guatemale, Cuba, and Puerto Rico against Spain rather than to conquer these lands once they have achieved independence.
 

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To me, the key is avoiding the Civil War. The Civil War, as much as anything stopped American Expansion.

I think if I was writing an ATL, I would start with the USA getting Upper Canada in the ARW. I would have butterflies do away with the American Civil War. Then have the USA take more of Mexico in some war like the Mexican American War. The USA setup two foreign language states (Louisiana and New Mexico), so if we get a big enough Chunk of Mexico, we can keep Spanish going as a language of several states. I probably skip the War of 1812. Have the USA come in on the side of weaker British than OTL, and gain something. The earlier suggest of some French colonial Islands sounds ok.

So we can roll into the 1880's with the USA having an economy the size of the UK or Germany. The USA controls big chunks OTL territory minus maybe its influence in Hawaii. Big parts of Canada. Half of OTL Mexico. Plus some French Islands and maybe a few smaller states that join the USA. Then you need to get the USA in the European alliance system. And have the USA win. I guess we have to opposed to the UK since we took the remaining French lands before 1880. USA gets the British territories that remain. Since the USA has some big Spanish speakings states, we let Quebec have a lot of federalism and French.

The rest of the area falls under the USA "sphere of influence", and will eventually be a part of the USA but maybe with statuses more like OTL Marshall Islands and Puerto Rico.

And definitely, keep the USA from going west of Hawaii. Can't waste resources on China here.

It is hard to write ATL. It will be called an American wank, but the America on the OTL side does not resemble OTL modern America that much. For example, we can't assume slavery would end ITTL or some institution that looked a lot like slavery.

To recap, I think you can get there with USA gets Upper Canada in ARW. USA avoids civil war and resolves slavery somehow. USA is in a Great War against the UK where the UK loses badly. Lot of flexibility in the other details.
 
Not as hard as it seems.
-Better military leadership in War of 1812 helps secure much of western Canada/BNA except Rupert's Land
-All Mexico in 1848
-54-40 *or fight*
-Support and recognize William Walker's government in Nicaragua then aid in invasion of Costa Rica
-Offer better terms to native Americans who stay in the Union at expense of thos who don't
-Use Red River Revolt/Metis situation or ride wave of 1857 protests to push for Canadian integration into US
-Occupy Cuba, Puerto Rico, and central American countries as OTL but annex instead of 'secure'
-Occupy Guatemala in 1917 to 'secure American interests from German interference'
-Make Jamaica, Belize, and Bahamas the price for American aid in WWI or offer to exchange/buy them
-A few outlying islands remain but by 1920 much of North America is united under the Stars and Stripes
 
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