AHC: Make Andrew Jackson Emperor of the United States

Your challenge, would you choose to accept it, is to make Andrew Jackson Emperor of the United States. The POD must be after the presidency of George Washington. Double bonus if his line of succession got overthrown in the middle of a abolitionist riot.
 

Dirk_Pitt

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Your challenge, would you choose to accept it, is to make Andrew Jackson Emperor of the United States. The POD must be after the presidency of George Washington. Double bonus if his line of succession got overthrown in the middle of a abolitionist riot.

This would never happen. Just 50 years earlier they just overthrew a monarchy. The American people would never accept it, unless it started with Washington himself and he refused.
 
He was popular and tyrannical, but I don't think a president elected into office by the "common man" would have the guts to do such an about face.
 
It's been done.






Well my computer has decided to be tempermental with the Web Archive, so I can't link to it at the moment. It was on 'Matt's Making History' site, if that helps.
 
Your challenge, would you choose to accept it, is to make Andrew Jackson Emperor of the United States. The POD must be after the presidency of George Washington. Double bonus if his line of succession got overthrown in the middle of a abolitionist riot.

Tony:

Your challenge, especially given the parameters you've set is not possible without a heaping helping of personality altering magic or direct alien intervention; sorry.
 

Thande

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Surprised nobody has posted this yet...

Anyway, I don't think he could've become Emperor because it's not in the man's character, the closest you can get is something like Julius Caesar where he's often mistakenly considered to be the first in a line of Emperors that started after his death, as a result of him being Dictator-for-Life for a while. That I could certainly see Jackson both becoming, and getting away with. New England might end up seceding as a result (or perhaps the POD can be that they did to start with in the 1810s a la Decades of Darkness). Without New England Jackson can basically rule supreme as a strongman on the back of his popularity with the common people against the establishment.
 
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Surprised nobody has posted this yet...

Anyway, I don't think he could've become Emperor because it's not in the man's character, the closest you can get is something like Julius Caesar where he's often mistakenly considered to be the first in a line of Emperors that started after his death, as a result of him being Dictator-for-Life for a while. That I could certainly see Jackson both becoming, and getting away with. New England might end up seceding as a result (or perhaps the POD can be that they did to start with in the 1810s a la Decades of Darkness). Without New England Jackson can basically rule supreme as a strongman on the back of his popularity with the common people against the establishment.

Because the King Andrew I cartoon is so cliche, ;):D
 
I will only agree to Andrew Jackson as emporer if he can be assassinated by a native american! Maybe a seminole or creek can do the job.
 
Under the given circumstances, this scenario just isn't plausible. Not only is it not in Jackson's personality, but unless there is allot of monarchist influence in the USA or something (not ASB, but very difficult), and a major war/emergency gripping the nation at the same, than Andrew Jackson making himself king with a post-Washington POD just can't happen, and is pretty ASB.

Now Andrew Jackson being King, as said before, it has been done in the American King timeline, both version I and version II, the later which is still going on, and is one of my favortie timelines on the board (it's a three way tie between AKII, Disaster at Luethen and the Union Forever, out of the ones I've read :cool:). Check it out, you may enjoy it.
 
FOUND IT!

Doesn't quite match the OP's parameters, but it still has Andrew Jackson become emperor (and would have had Joshua Norton become president, for extra irony)
 
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