A more expansionist America, I welcome any and all constructive comments.
1820
Maine becomes a state
No Missouri compromise (POD)
James Monroe Re-Elected as President
1821
Missouri becomes a state
1822
Liberia is established on the Pepper Coast of Africa by the American Colonization Society
1823
The Monroe Doctrine is issued
1824
John Quincy Adams is Elected President
1828
Andrew Jackson is Elected President
1832
Andrew Jackson is Re-Elected President
1835-1836
Texas War of Independence
1836
Arkansas becomes a state
"Treaties" of Velasco End the Texas War of Independence
Martin Van Buren is Elected President
1837
Michigan becomes a state
1840
William Henry Harrison is Elected President
1844
James K. Polk is Elected President
1845
US agrees to Annex The Republic of Texas and it becomes a state
Florida becomes a state
1846
Iowa becomes a state
Oregon Treaty settles the Oregon boundary dispute between the US and the UK
1846 1848
Mexican American War;
1848
Wisconsin becomes a state
James K. Polk is Re-Elected President
1848
US plenipotentiary Nicholas Trist accidentally killed when Mexican Guerillas assassinate Mexican President Santa Anna. (2nd POD)
US decides the only way to secure long term peace is to annex all of Mexico
Gen. Scott is named Governor General of former Mexican States
Gen. Taylor is named Governor General of New Mexico, California and Baja California
1848-1850
Central American War; Gen. Scott sends Gen. William Worth & 1st Division of the US Army to pursue Mexican rebels into Central America and ultimately annex all of Central America except British Honduras and the Colombian province of Panama.
1849
President Polk dies in office and Vice-President Lewis Cass becomes President
1850
Compromise of 1850;
Texas gives up claims to territory in New Mexico in exchange for $10,000,000 in stock to pay off it's national debt.
California becomes a state
Territories of New Mexico and Utah are created
New Fugitive Slave Law is not included
Slave Trade (but not slavery) banned in Washington DC
1852
Lewis Cass is Elected President
1856
US passes Guano Island Act; Allowing US citizens to claim uninhabited islands. Ultimately claiming approximately 100 islands.
Stephen Douglas is Elected President
1857
Ecuador sells 2,610,200 quarter sections of it's territory to the US for $3,000,000 to pay off its international debt. Consisting of the Santiago-Cayapas and Mira River Basins along with a large vaguely defined territory on the east side of the Andes Mtns. US creates that Territory of Franklin
1858
Minnesota becomes a state
1859
Oregon becomes a state
1860
Stephen Douglas is Re-Elected President with Sam Houston as Vice-President
Tamaholipa, New Leon and Coahuila becomes states
1861
Stephen Douglas dies in office Vice-President Sam Houston becomes President.
1862
Kansas, Chihuahua and Sonora becomes states
1864
Sam Houston is Elected President
Sinaloa, Durango and Zacatecas becomes states
1866
San Luis, Potos, Jalisco and Guanajuato becomes states
1867
Nebraska becomes a state
US purchases Alaska from the Russian Empire
1868
Abraham Lincoln is Elected President
Nevada, Queretaro and Michoacan becomes states
1869
First Transcontinental Railroad completed
1870
Mexico, Puebla and Veracruz becomes states
1871
The Great Southern Loop is completed
(railroad along pacific and gulf coast & across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec)
1872
Abraham Lincoln is Re-Elected President
Oaxaca, Chiapas and Tabasco becomes states
1874
Yucatan and Guatemala become states.
1876
Colorado, El Salvador and Honduras becomes states
Porfirio Diaz is Elected President
1878
Nicaragua and Costa Rica becomes states
1880
Porfirio Diaz Re-Elected for Second Term as President
1884
Porfirio Diaz Re-Elected for Third Term as President
1888
Porfirio Diaz Re-Elected for Fourth Term as President
1889
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington becomes states
1890
Idaho and Wyoming becomes states
1892
Grover Cleveland is Elected President
1896
Utah becomes a state
William McKinley is Elected President
1898
US agrees to Annex The Republic of Hawaii
Spanish American War; Spain Cedes Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spanish East Indies (Philippines, Palau, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, Guam and the Northern Mariana) to the US
1899
Tripartite Convention; Partitioning of the Samoan Islands between US and Germany.
1899-1913
Philippine-American War; US puts down insurrection in the Philippines
1900
William McKinley is Re-Elected President
Franklin becomes a state
1901
William McKinley assassinated, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
1903
Panama votes to succeed from Columbia and join the US as a State.
1904
Theodore Roosevelt Re-Elected for Second Term as President
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine is issued
Panama Canal is started
1907
Sequoyah (Oklahoma without panhandle) becomes a state
1908
Theodore Roosevelt Re-Elected for Third Term as President
1912
Theodore Roosevelt Re-Elected for fourth Term as President
New Mexico, Arizona and Baja California becomes states
1913
US creates three separate territories out of the Philippians; Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao
1914
WW-I breaks out.
New Zealand occupies Western Samoa.
Panama Canal is completed
1916
Theodore Roosevelt Re-Elected for fifth Term as President
US Annex's the Dominican Republic & Haiti and creates the Territory of Hispaniola
1917
Germany starts Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, US Enters WWI
Cuba and Puerto Rico becomes states.
US purchases Greenland and Danish Virgin Islands to keep them from being used by German U-Boats.
1918
The Armistice Treaty ends WWI
1918-1920
Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War
1919
Treaty of Versailles
US Western Samoa
UK Tanganyika
UK New Guinea
UK Nauru
UK German South West Africa
UK TransJordan
UK Mesopotamia
FR Syria and the Lebanon
British Togoland
French Togoland
British Cameroons
French Cameroun
BEL-Ruanda-Urundi
JAP Tsingtao and Jiaozhou Bay
The National Prohibition Act fails to pass congress
1920
(Plutarco) Elias Calles is Elected President
US passes the 18th Amendment granting Universal Suffrage and also extending mandatory military service to women for a period of three years.
1924
(Plutarco) Elias Calles is Re-Elected President
1928
(Plutarco) Elias Calles is Re-Elected President
1932
(Plutarco) Elias Calles is Re-Elected President
1933
19th Amendment to US Constitution - establishes the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices
1930
Hawaii becomes a state
1935
Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao become states
1936
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President
1938
Hispaniola becomes a state
1939-1945
World World II
1940
“Vichy” France joins the Axis and Declares war on the Allies
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President
Liberia and Samoa become states
1941
Japan attacks the US by Bombing Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and invading the Philippians;
US declares war on Japan, in retaliation Germany, Italy and “Vichy” France declare war on the US.
US occupies the Netherlands Antilles, French West Indies, French Guiana & Dutch Guiana to keep the Germans and “Vichy” French from using them as bases for U-Boats.
1944
Franklin D. Roosevelt is Re-Elected President
1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office Vice President Harry Truman becomes president
The US drops atomic bombs on the Japaneses cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Under operation Paper Clip US moves 100's of Nazi & Japanese Scientists to the US mainland
Postdam Conference; US, UK and USSR divide up French, German, Italian and Japanese colonies.
UK Northern Coast of France (Brittany, Normandy, Picardy and Nord)
UK New Hebrides
UK New Caledonia
UK Solomon Islands
UK French Indochina
UK Madagascar
USSR Port Arthur
USSR Korea
USSR Mengjiang
USSR Sakhalin
US Japan
US Formosa
US French West Indies
US French Guiana
US French Polynesia
US French South Pacific Islands
US Wallis and Futuna Islands
US Amsterdam Island
US Saint-Paul Island
US Kerguelen Islands
US Crozet Islands
US Reunion
US Comoros
US Clipperton Island
Libya broken into it's historical regions Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica
Tunisia granted independence from France
US & UK Establish the Independent Nations of Sardinia & Corsica
US & UK Create Several African Nations out of French Africa
US & UK Establish the Independent Nation of Sicily and the US purchases Pantelleria and Pelagie Islands from them and bases the US Mediterranean Fleet there.
USSR sets up puppet governments in Eastern European Nations of East Germany, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
1945-1950
US Indonesian War; US puts down insurrection in Indonesia
1946
US passes the Civil Engineering Corps Act, establishing a third Non-Armed Uniform Service (using Army uniforms) and transfers the civil responsibilities of the Army Corps of Engineers, Navy Civil Engineer Corps and Naval Construction Battalions to the new service. To Manage it's growing empire the US passed mandatory military service for all males 18yrs of age or
the conclusion of 12th Grade, for a period of three years. Exceptions for those enrolled in College or serving in a Non-Armed Uniform Service
1947
King George VI of United Kingdom is named Emperor George I of the British Empire and Parliament is expanded to allow all British Colonies to be represented. *Thus establishing the British Empire as a single cohesive nation. Except for Canada which feels torn between the US and the UK so takes the
middle ground of continuing as an independent Dominion of the UK.
Marshall Plan the US buys:
Belgium Congo
Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia)
Netherlands Antilles
Cayman Islands
British West Indies (The Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Turks and Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands)
Bermuda
British Guiana
British Honduras
British claims on the Island of Borneo
US merges French, British and Dutch Guiana into the Territory of Guiana
US merges the all the islands in the Lesser Antilles into the Territory of the Caribbees
US merges the Netherlands Borneo and British Borneo into the Territory of Borneo;
US purchases Portuguese Timor from Portugal
1948
Newfoundland and Labrador vote to join the US as a State.
US recognizes the Japanese Imperial Place as the semi-independent Nation of Nippon under US protection
Princesses Abigail and Lydia Kawananakoa sue the State of Hawaii and US Gov't for the return of the Iolani Palace and recognition for Native Hawaiians as a Sovereign Nation within the US like mainland Indian Tribes Brunei votes to join the US Territory of Borneo
Franklin D. Roosevelt is Re-Elected President
1950
Guam and the Northern Mariners becomes a State
US creates the Territories of Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Maluku and Lesser Sunda out of Indonesia
1952
The Caribbees, Belize (British Honduras), Jamaica, Bermuda and The Bahamas become states
Dwight Eisenhower is elected President
1955
Japan becomes a state
1956
Dwight Eisenhower is re-elected President
1959
Alaska becomes a state
1960
John F. Kennedy is elected President
1964
Eisaku Sato is elected President
1966
Guiana becomes a state
1968
Eisaku Sato is re-elected President
1972
Ferdinand Marcos is elected President
1975
US purchases Macau from Portugal.
Borneo becomes a state
1976
Ferdinand Marcos is re-elected President
1980
Ronald Reagan is elected President
Quebec votes to secede from Canada;
1984
Ronald Reagan is re-elected President
1985
Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Maluku and Lesser Sunda becomes states
1990
The USSR collapses
The Canadian Confederation collapses without Quebec to counter Ontario, it dominates the other Provinces. The eastern provinces (Prince Edward's Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia) geographically disconnected from the rest of Canada, fearing interference from Quebec and watching New Foundland flourish as a US State for the last 50 years vote to join the US as States. The western provinces (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) form the New Canada Confederation (NCC). Control of the northern territories (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut) are disputed between NCC
and Ontario
1820
Maine becomes a state
No Missouri compromise (POD)
James Monroe Re-Elected as President
1821
Missouri becomes a state
1822
Liberia is established on the Pepper Coast of Africa by the American Colonization Society
1823
The Monroe Doctrine is issued
1824
John Quincy Adams is Elected President
1828
Andrew Jackson is Elected President
1832
Andrew Jackson is Re-Elected President
1835-1836
Texas War of Independence
1836
Arkansas becomes a state
"Treaties" of Velasco End the Texas War of Independence
Martin Van Buren is Elected President
1837
Michigan becomes a state
1840
William Henry Harrison is Elected President
1844
James K. Polk is Elected President
1845
US agrees to Annex The Republic of Texas and it becomes a state
Florida becomes a state
1846
Iowa becomes a state
Oregon Treaty settles the Oregon boundary dispute between the US and the UK
1846 1848
Mexican American War;
1848
Wisconsin becomes a state
James K. Polk is Re-Elected President
1848
US plenipotentiary Nicholas Trist accidentally killed when Mexican Guerillas assassinate Mexican President Santa Anna. (2nd POD)
US decides the only way to secure long term peace is to annex all of Mexico
Gen. Scott is named Governor General of former Mexican States
Gen. Taylor is named Governor General of New Mexico, California and Baja California
1848-1850
Central American War; Gen. Scott sends Gen. William Worth & 1st Division of the US Army to pursue Mexican rebels into Central America and ultimately annex all of Central America except British Honduras and the Colombian province of Panama.
1849
President Polk dies in office and Vice-President Lewis Cass becomes President
1850
Compromise of 1850;
Texas gives up claims to territory in New Mexico in exchange for $10,000,000 in stock to pay off it's national debt.
California becomes a state
Territories of New Mexico and Utah are created
New Fugitive Slave Law is not included
Slave Trade (but not slavery) banned in Washington DC
1852
Lewis Cass is Elected President
1856
US passes Guano Island Act; Allowing US citizens to claim uninhabited islands. Ultimately claiming approximately 100 islands.
Stephen Douglas is Elected President
1857
Ecuador sells 2,610,200 quarter sections of it's territory to the US for $3,000,000 to pay off its international debt. Consisting of the Santiago-Cayapas and Mira River Basins along with a large vaguely defined territory on the east side of the Andes Mtns. US creates that Territory of Franklin
1858
Minnesota becomes a state
1859
Oregon becomes a state
1860
Stephen Douglas is Re-Elected President with Sam Houston as Vice-President
Tamaholipa, New Leon and Coahuila becomes states
1861
Stephen Douglas dies in office Vice-President Sam Houston becomes President.
1862
Kansas, Chihuahua and Sonora becomes states
1864
Sam Houston is Elected President
Sinaloa, Durango and Zacatecas becomes states
1866
San Luis, Potos, Jalisco and Guanajuato becomes states
1867
Nebraska becomes a state
US purchases Alaska from the Russian Empire
1868
Abraham Lincoln is Elected President
Nevada, Queretaro and Michoacan becomes states
1869
First Transcontinental Railroad completed
1870
Mexico, Puebla and Veracruz becomes states
1871
The Great Southern Loop is completed
(railroad along pacific and gulf coast & across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec)
1872
Abraham Lincoln is Re-Elected President
Oaxaca, Chiapas and Tabasco becomes states
1874
Yucatan and Guatemala become states.
1876
Colorado, El Salvador and Honduras becomes states
Porfirio Diaz is Elected President
1878
Nicaragua and Costa Rica becomes states
1880
Porfirio Diaz Re-Elected for Second Term as President
1884
Porfirio Diaz Re-Elected for Third Term as President
1888
Porfirio Diaz Re-Elected for Fourth Term as President
1889
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington becomes states
1890
Idaho and Wyoming becomes states
1892
Grover Cleveland is Elected President
1896
Utah becomes a state
William McKinley is Elected President
1898
US agrees to Annex The Republic of Hawaii
Spanish American War; Spain Cedes Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spanish East Indies (Philippines, Palau, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, Guam and the Northern Mariana) to the US
1899
Tripartite Convention; Partitioning of the Samoan Islands between US and Germany.
1899-1913
Philippine-American War; US puts down insurrection in the Philippines
1900
William McKinley is Re-Elected President
Franklin becomes a state
1901
William McKinley assassinated, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
1903
Panama votes to succeed from Columbia and join the US as a State.
1904
Theodore Roosevelt Re-Elected for Second Term as President
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine is issued
Panama Canal is started
1907
Sequoyah (Oklahoma without panhandle) becomes a state
1908
Theodore Roosevelt Re-Elected for Third Term as President
1912
Theodore Roosevelt Re-Elected for fourth Term as President
New Mexico, Arizona and Baja California becomes states
1913
US creates three separate territories out of the Philippians; Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao
1914
WW-I breaks out.
New Zealand occupies Western Samoa.
Panama Canal is completed
1916
Theodore Roosevelt Re-Elected for fifth Term as President
US Annex's the Dominican Republic & Haiti and creates the Territory of Hispaniola
1917
Germany starts Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, US Enters WWI
Cuba and Puerto Rico becomes states.
US purchases Greenland and Danish Virgin Islands to keep them from being used by German U-Boats.
1918
The Armistice Treaty ends WWI
1918-1920
Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War
1919
Treaty of Versailles
US Western Samoa
UK Tanganyika
UK New Guinea
UK Nauru
UK German South West Africa
UK TransJordan
UK Mesopotamia
FR Syria and the Lebanon
British Togoland
French Togoland
British Cameroons
French Cameroun
BEL-Ruanda-Urundi
JAP Tsingtao and Jiaozhou Bay
The National Prohibition Act fails to pass congress
1920
(Plutarco) Elias Calles is Elected President
US passes the 18th Amendment granting Universal Suffrage and also extending mandatory military service to women for a period of three years.
1924
(Plutarco) Elias Calles is Re-Elected President
1928
(Plutarco) Elias Calles is Re-Elected President
1932
(Plutarco) Elias Calles is Re-Elected President
1933
19th Amendment to US Constitution - establishes the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices
1930
Hawaii becomes a state
1935
Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao become states
1936
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President
1938
Hispaniola becomes a state
1939-1945
World World II
1940
“Vichy” France joins the Axis and Declares war on the Allies
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President
Liberia and Samoa become states
1941
Japan attacks the US by Bombing Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and invading the Philippians;
US declares war on Japan, in retaliation Germany, Italy and “Vichy” France declare war on the US.
US occupies the Netherlands Antilles, French West Indies, French Guiana & Dutch Guiana to keep the Germans and “Vichy” French from using them as bases for U-Boats.
1944
Franklin D. Roosevelt is Re-Elected President
1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office Vice President Harry Truman becomes president
The US drops atomic bombs on the Japaneses cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Under operation Paper Clip US moves 100's of Nazi & Japanese Scientists to the US mainland
Postdam Conference; US, UK and USSR divide up French, German, Italian and Japanese colonies.
UK Northern Coast of France (Brittany, Normandy, Picardy and Nord)
UK New Hebrides
UK New Caledonia
UK Solomon Islands
UK French Indochina
UK Madagascar
USSR Port Arthur
USSR Korea
USSR Mengjiang
USSR Sakhalin
US Japan
US Formosa
US French West Indies
US French Guiana
US French Polynesia
US French South Pacific Islands
US Wallis and Futuna Islands
US Amsterdam Island
US Saint-Paul Island
US Kerguelen Islands
US Crozet Islands
US Reunion
US Comoros
US Clipperton Island
Libya broken into it's historical regions Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica
Tunisia granted independence from France
US & UK Establish the Independent Nations of Sardinia & Corsica
US & UK Create Several African Nations out of French Africa
US & UK Establish the Independent Nation of Sicily and the US purchases Pantelleria and Pelagie Islands from them and bases the US Mediterranean Fleet there.
USSR sets up puppet governments in Eastern European Nations of East Germany, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
1945-1950
US Indonesian War; US puts down insurrection in Indonesia
1946
US passes the Civil Engineering Corps Act, establishing a third Non-Armed Uniform Service (using Army uniforms) and transfers the civil responsibilities of the Army Corps of Engineers, Navy Civil Engineer Corps and Naval Construction Battalions to the new service. To Manage it's growing empire the US passed mandatory military service for all males 18yrs of age or
the conclusion of 12th Grade, for a period of three years. Exceptions for those enrolled in College or serving in a Non-Armed Uniform Service
1947
King George VI of United Kingdom is named Emperor George I of the British Empire and Parliament is expanded to allow all British Colonies to be represented. *Thus establishing the British Empire as a single cohesive nation. Except for Canada which feels torn between the US and the UK so takes the
middle ground of continuing as an independent Dominion of the UK.
Marshall Plan the US buys:
Belgium Congo
Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia)
Netherlands Antilles
Cayman Islands
British West Indies (The Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Turks and Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands)
Bermuda
British Guiana
British Honduras
British claims on the Island of Borneo
US merges French, British and Dutch Guiana into the Territory of Guiana
US merges the all the islands in the Lesser Antilles into the Territory of the Caribbees
US merges the Netherlands Borneo and British Borneo into the Territory of Borneo;
US purchases Portuguese Timor from Portugal
1948
Newfoundland and Labrador vote to join the US as a State.
US recognizes the Japanese Imperial Place as the semi-independent Nation of Nippon under US protection
Princesses Abigail and Lydia Kawananakoa sue the State of Hawaii and US Gov't for the return of the Iolani Palace and recognition for Native Hawaiians as a Sovereign Nation within the US like mainland Indian Tribes Brunei votes to join the US Territory of Borneo
Franklin D. Roosevelt is Re-Elected President
1950
Guam and the Northern Mariners becomes a State
US creates the Territories of Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Maluku and Lesser Sunda out of Indonesia
1952
The Caribbees, Belize (British Honduras), Jamaica, Bermuda and The Bahamas become states
Dwight Eisenhower is elected President
1955
Japan becomes a state
1956
Dwight Eisenhower is re-elected President
1959
Alaska becomes a state
1960
John F. Kennedy is elected President
1964
Eisaku Sato is elected President
1966
Guiana becomes a state
1968
Eisaku Sato is re-elected President
1972
Ferdinand Marcos is elected President
1975
US purchases Macau from Portugal.
Borneo becomes a state
1976
Ferdinand Marcos is re-elected President
1980
Ronald Reagan is elected President
Quebec votes to secede from Canada;
1984
Ronald Reagan is re-elected President
1985
Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Maluku and Lesser Sunda becomes states
1990
The USSR collapses
The Canadian Confederation collapses without Quebec to counter Ontario, it dominates the other Provinces. The eastern provinces (Prince Edward's Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia) geographically disconnected from the rest of Canada, fearing interference from Quebec and watching New Foundland flourish as a US State for the last 50 years vote to join the US as States. The western provinces (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) form the New Canada Confederation (NCC). Control of the northern territories (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut) are disputed between NCC
and Ontario