AHC: Union between Canada and the United States

With a POD between July 1st, 1867 and January 1st, 1900, have Canada and the United States unite into a single country.

Seems difficult seeing as 1867 confederation came about really as a reaction to the potential threat from the south, so pretty much the opposite of something that would attract Canada to a union with them.
 
Not really possible with out a war with the U.K., although with the right coalition in the 1880-1890's it might be possible, but you would also need to keep the idea of the U.S. wanting to own everything from the Canadian Arctic to the tip of South Americ alive.
 
In 1898, after negotiations with Canada over the Alaska Panhandle Dispute fall through, Britain takes a much heavier hand in negotiations and ends up ruling even more in favor of the US than OTL.

This causes a wellspring of anti-British sentiment as the pro-US Progressives gain strength. The US also takes a much more conciliatory hand towards Canada than OTL. The National Policy leads to more economic stagnation than OTL, causing pro-business voters to also support closer ties with the US.

When Britain pressures Canada to send troops to the war, Canada accepts at first, but withdraws as the casualties mount, making things harder for the British.

By the 1920s, Canada is forced to choose between a distant exhausted Britain and a close, booming, United States. President Calvin Coolidge and Prime Minister Robert Forke sign the North American Reunification Treaty on July 1st, 1925, after ratification by the House of Commons and Senate, and Canadian provinces are admitted to the US as states.
 

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I'll take on this challenge.
In a TL in which the US has averted the Civil War at least for the next 10-15 years by passing, at the 11th Hour, Crittinden's Compromise during a Seward Administration, Louis Riel's unilateral independence for the State of Manitoba is likely to provoke immediate recognition by the United States followed by a diplomatic offer of annexation and statehood and federal troops to head off a Baritish invasion to suppress Manitoban sovereignty.
Why, might you ask?
Because under the terms of the Crittienden Compromise, Oklahoma is the only area left that whites with slaves can settle. But to do so requires finding an arrangement that Native Americans will find more attractive.
Oklahoma will never be permitted to become a Native American State. Or to develop. It's too close to the Cotton Kingdom and giving Oklahoma Native American statehood will give African Americans ideas about possible equality. But Manitoba could wolrk, particularly if the Senate and House insist upon Senators and Congressmen from Manitoba who look and act and have names that are white on pain of expulsion by 2/3 as provided in the Constitution. So Indian and Metis Manitoba could be the stich that unravels Canada--in return for Oklahoma as what is probably the last slave state unless Arizona joins the union as a slave state.
After Manitoba is recognized, it becomes pointless for Great Brtiain to keep the Hudson's Bay territory, so that gets sold to the US. Then British Columbia, isolated, joins as Columbia. Then Ontario, perhaps as two states. Then Quebec. Then New Brunswick with Nova Scotia and Newfoundland as the last holdouts until they too finally join the United States--and Denmark sells Greenland as well.
 
I'll take on this challenge.
In a TL in which the US has averted the Civil War at least for the next 10-15 years by passing, at the 11th Hour, Crittinden's Compromise during a Seward Administration, *snip*

But that doesn't fall within my POD range. A Seward Administration would result from a POD in 1860 at the latest.

It does, however, belong in my other thread, which covers from 1819-1867: AHC: USA acquire lands of OTL Canada.
 
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