American “Empire” Timeline

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
 
Hold on. You have a POD in 1820 and you're plotting out events up to the end of the 20th century without weighing how that POD change things enough to - for instance - mess with the nature of WWI?

What about the consequences of no Missouri Compromise?

Start with the 1820s and explore how your POD effects them before moving further.

You have an interesting idea, but you need to approach this more carefully.
 
My hope would be between no Missouri Compromise and Annexing Mexico there will be no Civil War. As far as plotting events out to the 20th Century, I think there are two major ways of looking at Alternate history; Either things follow a very similar course as to true history or after the POD things change to the point where the world would bear little to no resemblance to true history.
As far as WWI I still don't see America wanting to get involved in Europe's war until it starts to affect them, I don't see the advantage to the US for entering it earlier.
 
I think after 1848 not one bit of it makes sense.

1. I don't think the US would be able to occupy Mexico and Central America in two years.
2. Why the heck is the US getting British and French territory at the Treaty of Versailles?
3. I strongly doubt that Porfirio Diaz would be elected president within 16 years of annexation. The Mexican states would probably go thru a longer period of territorial status.
4. The demise of Canada without Quebec is greatly exaggerated.
 
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It's okay, but how could the U.S. manage to take over much of Mexico and Central America while Texas remains completely independent this whole time{or so I presume}, and how did WWI & WWII end up just like OTL?

You're doing alright, but you may want to make some significant improvements. :D
 
My hope would be between no Missouri Compromise and Annexing Mexico there will be no Civil War. As far as plotting events out to the 20th Century, I think there are two major ways of looking at Alternate history; Either things follow a very similar course as to true history or after the POD things change to the point where the world would bear little to no resemblance to true history.
As far as WWI I still don't see America wanting to get involved in Europe's war until it starts to affect them, I don't see the advantage to the US for entering it earlier.

Here's the thing on alternate history that your first timeline at this point misses: Things happen differently as the result of your POD. That's the whole point, but you seem to be missing part of it.

If you have a US that is different than it was OTL in 1900, then it will be doing different things IN 1900, which will mean different things are done in response TO it in 1900, which means events get increasingly different than OTL the further you get from the POD.

You might not have a William McKinnley presidency. You might not even have an FDR as we know him at all - he could be a born again Christian whose only resemblance to OTL is the name.

Basically, you can't say events will be identical once you've introduced changes to the circumstances that those events happened in more than you can say that substituting jalapenos for jam will not impact the taste of a PB&J.

Well you can, but no one will take it seriously.

If you want things to take a very similar course to OTL, you need to ensure that things are pretty similar to OTL despite the POD. And a POD where the US is much more expressionistic and has no Civil War in the early 1860s pretty much ensures a very different world by the time of the late 19th century at the earliest, and possibly sooner.
 
It's okay, but how could the U.S. manage to take over much of Mexico and Central America while Texas remains completely independent this whole time{or so I presume}, and how did WWI & WWII end up just like OTL?

You're doing alright, but you may want to make some significant improvements. :D

Texas didn't "1845 - US agrees to Annex The Republic of Texas and it becomes a state"
As far as WWI and WWII goes I'll have to take another look at them but with America so focused in the Western Hemisphere except for trade I would think that Europe would more or less continue on it's same course.


I think after 1848 not one bit of it makes sense.

1. I don't think the US would be able to occupy Mexico and Central America in two years.
2. Why the heck is the US getting British and French territory at the Treaty of Versailles?
3. I strongly doubt that Porfirio Diaz would be elected president within 16 years of annexation. The Mexican states would probably go thru a longer period of territorial status.
4. The demise of Canada without Quebec is greatly exaggerated.

1. Yea I can see that now. IT's one thing to march on Mexico City and get the gov't to surrender but occupying the whole country is something else entirely.
2. The only thing I have the US getting at the Treaty of Versailles is Western Samoa.
3. Very true
4. Ontario has 34% of the seats in the House of Commons. So pretty much all the other provinces would have to be united or else Ontario could run roughshod over them.


Elfwine- I can definitely see now how no civil war would change things pretty drastically. The approx 620,000 who died in the civil war would now have the chance to impact history themselves and through their descendent's.
 
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As far as WWI and WWII goes I'll have to take another look at them but with America so focused in the Western Hemisphere except for trade I would think that Europe would more or less continue on it's same course.

The European powers were very concerned with limiting the expansion of the United States. Britain and France especially would be concerned with Canada and British Honduras not to mention the Caribbean all near the United States.
 
Elfwine- I can definitely see now how no civil war would change things pretty drastically. The approx 620,000 who died in the civil war would now have the chance to impact history themselves and through their descendent's.

Its not just that, either.

Take out the Civil War and anything that happened as a result is taken out as well.

So for instance, no 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments as we know them.

Slavery continues to exist (how much longer is uncertain, but it isn't ended this early).

There is no period of Reconstruction, none of the men who became prominent by being Civil War generals are noticed.

And so on.

And this is assuming nothing has changed significantly up to 1860, which I doubt.

Random butterflies are one thing. The PB&J situation alone is a problem.
 
I would consider it likely that there would just be a postponement of an American Civil War with the annexation of the entirety of Mexico. At least this TL does suggest that the balance of power, at least in the US Congress, will tilt towards the Mexican states, at the expense of the Old Northwest, the South, the Northeast and the expanding Midwest.

The civil war that would breakout would be those regions or states that will find themselves losing power to the Mexican states. I would think it prudent that the US would govern Mexico, but not annex it.
 
The European powers were very concerned with limiting the expansion of the United States. Britain and France especially would be concerned with Canada and British Honduras not to mention the Caribbean all near the United States.

Concerned yes, but enough to intervene militarily? The fact that Britain and Spain backed out of France's invasion of Mexico in 1861, I think is pretty telling. Also the fact the Britain is involved with Russia in the Great Game for the control of central asia.

As far a France goes it's one thing to invade a country that had has had three major events (US-Mex War 1846-1848, Revolution of Ayutla 1855, Reform War 1857-1861) in less than 20 years combine that with it's internal problems and I think it's very unlikely that they would intervene.
 
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OH NO! AMERIWANK! *burns eyes*

And no it's not because I'm from the north :rolleyes:. Timeline wise, it's odd how much OTL events happen mainly in the same decade as this one, but other than that it's pretty good as a start.
 
Concerned yes, but enough to intervene militarily? The fact that Britain and Spain backed out of France's invasion of Mexico in 1861, I think is pretty telling.

Well, Britain and Spain went home because they'd finished getting their debts paid at gunpoint :D. The French were unhappy with their end of the settlement, so they decided to stick around a bit longer to see if they could squeeze some more usefulness out of Mexico.
 
I remember one instance when the incumbent of a seat in the state legislature had died, but he still won the election somehow or another. The details are all fuzzy now, but I'm certain that it happened not too far in the past.
 
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