AHC: Make the USA imperialist with as large amount of territory as possible.

I like the idea of exploring US Imperialism in the sense of the US operating in imitation of European Empires of the 17th through 19th Centuries. Let the Confederacy secede successfully from the Union, and based on treaty, form a hard border between the two. Now let each smaller disadvantaged nation pursue an imperial policy out of differing necessities and ambitions. I would assume the USA would expand West and into the Pacific, the CSA somewhat west but mostly south and into the Carribean.
 

JJohnson

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By Imperialist I'm assuming we're leaving out Canada. So let's start there.

1783 - Bermuda and Bahamas become US territory at the end of the ARW
1819 - purchase Cuba and Florida from Spain
1820s - take Marianas Islands, then Polynesia as a territory
1840s - Not quite 54°40', but the US manages to negotiate 52° N, and creates one new state out of that part of Oregon country
1848 - take Sonora, Chihuahua, Rio Grande, and Baja California in the end of Mexican-American War.
1870s - possibly purchase part or all of Rupert's Land from the UK since the Pacific is pretty much closed off to Canada now, and it becomes more Atlantic / Euro-centric in its foreign policies
1898 - US takes Guam, Philippines in Spanish-American War
1910s - US buys Danish Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands are given in exchange for US aid in WW1 to the UK.
1940s - Philippines become independent

US has a few new states (58 total) in this scenario:

-Rio Grande, South California, Cuba, Sonora, Sierra Madre (Chihuahua), Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Bermuda

New Territories: Polynesia
 
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