AHC: USA as an emerging market in our days

Challenge: Avoid the USA from reaching superpower (or even a power) status and keeping it as an emerging market in our days (something like Brazil or Russia in OTL)

PODs no later than 1900 and the USA should be kept with the same territory and natural resources as OTL.
 
Challenge: Avoid the USA from reaching superpower (or even a power) status and keeping it as an emerging market in our days (something like Brazil or Russia in OTL)

PODs no later than 1900 and the USA should be kept with the same territory and natural resources as OTL.

I guess you could make slavery last longer, and then have a catastrophic civil war at some point, after which the US nearly collapses, and is only sustained as effectively a puppet of Britain.
 
Have the ACW go much worse, have it drag on to 1872 or so with the US government debt very high and having to pay high interest rates. Also due to this have a Communist uprising in 1880 or so . It remains a Communist dictatorship until the 1950s ruining its economy even further. Between all that the US might well be backwards enough.
 
Have the ACW go much worse, have it drag on to 1872 or so with the US government debt very high and having to pay high interest rates. Also due to this have a Communist uprising in 1880 or so . It remains a Communist dictatorship until the 1950s ruining its economy even further. Between all that the US might well be backwards enough.

But how a Communist uprising in 1880, when Communism was just starting to become a political force in some countries?
 
But how a Communist uprising in 1880, when Communism was just starting to become a political force in some countries?

Make it 1890 or 1900 if you prefer. I think it might happen early in a poor USA because the population is reasonably well educated and used to being relatively wealthy. Expectations are important. If it is as poor as Italy in 1880 or so, it has dropped considerably in wealth and might start revolts. Italy is used to being that poor so has no reason to rise up.
 
Could work bu IMHO Communist ideas would have to develop much more deeply inside the U.S society to the country reaching the point of a revolution....so I guess that 1880 is too soon for that...who knows something after 1917?
 
Could work bu IMHO Communist ideas would have to develop much more deeply inside the U.S society to the country reaching the point of a revolution....so I guess that 1880 is too soon for that...who knows something after 1917?


Why 1917? The Russian Revolution is likely butterflied away and almost certainly the date of the revolution.
 
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