AHC: Reverse American Civil War

First off, if this challenge has been done often and/or recently, I am very sorry.

Having said that, the challenge is simple: come up with a scenario that would result in the Northern Free States seceding from the Union over slavery.

A few rules:

1. New England and only New England doesn't count. It has to include other states beyond those six.

2. I won't declare an official earliest POD beyond 1789 (when the Constitution went into effect), but I will give a cookie to whomever comes up with one during or after the Missouri Compromise.

3. The Union doesn't necessarily have to go to war, but secession is a must. Also, the North can be separate as long as you want it (a few years, a few decades, until the modern day).

4. The secession can be at any date after the Constitution being made, although a chocolate cookie to whomever has it happen in the 1860s.

5. A triple-chocolate double-stuffed cookie with fresh milk from the animal of your choice (including favorite female celebrities) to whomever has President John Wilkes Booth assassinated by actor Abraham Lincoln!
 
ok, let's see

the only thing that comes to my mind is a possible complete annexation of mexico. with that and the compromise of 1850, it might happen.

due to geographical proximity, many more southerners go to the territories and, with the doctrine of popular sovereignty, several slave territories are created in the 1850s. northeners do the same in northwestern territories, but in the 1860s the already unstable situation is broken when texas applies the clause of "four other states" from the annexation and the shift, even if not decisively, is gone towards slave states and territories

still, abolitionism is a rising force in the northern states, and the former whigs, destroyed by the middle fifties as in OTL, regroup in the Repubblican Party. the campaign of this RP, though, is different. the impossibility to gain a majority in the senate brings the repubblicans to campaign against the uncivilised nation who hasn't freed her slaves, even when autocratic Russia has.

tension builds up and after the 1868 elections, won by former actor turned politician John Wilkes Booth :)D), the states that voted Repubblican hold secession conventions, followed by Massachusetts' Declaration of Independence on 20th December 1868. all the New England states (excluding New York), Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania follow and in february 1869 the Free States of America are created, with a constitution that bans slavery and with the election of Seward as president

with all eyes on washington, the United States surprisingly accept this act of Secession, due to "the historical, economical and cultural differences between the states that seceded and the true spirit of our Founding Fathers".

the two states pacifically coheist, with tensions growing on, until early 1873, when the losing Repubblican candidate of 1860 elections Abraham "Honest Abe" Lincoln, decides that "I, Abe Lincoln, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood" and kills president Booth during his second inaugural :eek:

vice president Stephens is forced by popular opinion to declare war on the FSA. the following war is a ten-years long struggle, but in the end the northern superiority in manpower and industrial capacity leads to a forced reunification of the former United States in 1883, but the scars left by the northern secession will not fade until the common struggle in WWI

(ASB, isn't it? :D:D:D)
 
Mexico was opposed to slavery, that's one reason Texas broke away. Mexican territory with large populations wouldn't side with the slave states.
 
The South got their way much more often than the north did, prior to the Civil War. Just carry that a little further. Maybe have Texas become five states.
 
First off, if this challenge has been done often and/or recently, I am very sorry.

Having said that, the challenge is simple: come up with a scenario that would result in the Northern Free States seceding from the Union over slavery.

A few rules:

1. New England and only New England doesn't count. It has to include other states beyond those six.

2. I won't declare an official earliest POD beyond 1789 (when the Constitution went into effect), but I will give a cookie to whomever comes up with one during or after the Missouri Compromise.

3. The Union doesn't necessarily have to go to war, but secession is a must. Also, the North can be separate as long as you want it (a few years, a few decades, until the modern day).

4. The secession can be at any date after the Constitution being made, although a chocolate cookie to whomever has it happen in the 1860s.

5. A triple-chocolate double-stuffed cookie with fresh milk from the animal of your choice (including favorite female celebrities) to whomever has President John Wilkes Booth assassinated by actor Abraham Lincoln!

TNF had a pretty cool scenario in mind on the "Alternate Presidents" thread.....I forget what it's called, but it involved not only the Northern States breaking off, but the remnant US also staggering on for a while before eventually undergoing a Marxist revolution. :D
 
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