With a POD of after the American revolution, your challenge, shall you choose to accept it, is to have a native american state admitted to the union. The earlier the POD the better.
It's actually pretty easy, just have the Congress OK the State of Seqoyah in the first few years of the 20th century.
One thing I thought about to prevent Indian removal was to make the nullification crisis lead to a civil war, one which Georgia joins in on for some reason. Some said that even if Jackson had upheld the Supreme Court's decision, Georgia (I think it was Georgia anyways though I might be wrong) and the other states would have pushed the Indians out anyway. So maybe with a civil war, after its won by Jackson, the federal government cracks down on the states from doing so and maybe makes a state out of one or two of them?If there were no Indian Removal Acts, could the Five Civilized Tribes be made states in their own right?
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Combined the Chickasaw/Choctaw and Cherokee/Creek territories could be made respectable-sized state. Or, since Rhode Island is pretty small, they could be made individual states. The Seminole likewise, although I don't know if they had the same kind of governmental infrastructure (a constitution, a capital) like the Cherokee did.
The problem is getting that passed, especially in the age of Jackson.
The problem is getting that passed, especially in the age of Jackson.
That actually sounds like an interesting idea.Constitutionally you would probably need an Amendment to have a new category of "in association with the United States" rather than have them be a state - though that invalidates the OP so I should shut up
British win War of 1812 decisively, Tecumseh gets his nation, it is a British puppet state. The Americans capture the nation and put it as part of the union.