1824
Part 2
More from America, an aging John Adams wanted to retire. Unfortunately, he had been re-elected in 1824, to very low popularity. He had done a lot other crap during his time in the Executive Council. He was very unpopular, and adding an American nobility where every executive council member was a Lord and that title would be passed done to the eldest son, along with the whole of his estate. John Adams was hit by an assassin's bullet on Christmas Day, 1824. A mass controversy ensued, and John Quincy Adams came out on the 27th as the rightful heir to his position on the Executive Council. He served until March 2nd as Executive Chair, and from then until further as the Chair of the Army.
To say this was the only controversy was far from it. Pennsylvania, historical a abolitionist state, and they went for the Freedom Party. This gave the party a lead over the Religious Freedom Party, and the Chair of the Interior. This was and is the only office capable of abolishing slavery. Though Congress would have to approve legislation, and their was no way to Southern Henry Clay would split the nation, but Van Buren could enforce anti-slavery laws, while not enforcing pro-slavery laws. Protests erupted in Atlanta, Savannah, Charleston, Raleigh, Richmond, and New Orleans. South Carolina threatened to nullify the election and succeed from the union. A statewide vote on the topic was set for December 30th, and heavy snowfall would have delayed this from happening. Fortunately, Adams announced that he would not enforce the anti-slavery measures. The union was reconciled for now.
Also to the dismay of southerns, the Papal party had won a seat, and a Xenophobic, anti-Catholic South was fully against this. Although the son of a crucial Quebecois Founding Father, Jean Baptiste III had intentions of allowing for religious freedom for Baptists, Methodist, Catholics, and Jews who where left to fend for themselves before. This caused the Religious Freedom Party and the Papal Party to unite into the United Religions of America, or the URA in short. However, the south had been the most Anglophilic region of the country, and as such had maintained the Church of England until this point in time. Though open to allow Baptists in the region, Catholics and Jews where crossing the line. To counter this growth, the Anglo-Dixie Party was founded as a political party for White Supremacist, Xenophobic, Anti-Catholic, Anti-Jew, State's rights party of the South. A Secret Society was founded as part of the party. They burned the homes of free blacks, and tried to stop further anti-slavery slavery movements, like ones in Virginia, Kentucky, and the Ozarks.
Politics had their own idea of making things more complicated. Four new states wanted to entire the Union: Maine, Superior (as free states), Ozark and Missouri (as slave states.) This would preserve the relative balance of power, to keep slaves states afloat by not allowing a 2/3rds majority for an amendment. However, the slave states wanted something else. They wanted Kansas, as state extending from the Arkansas border to the Missouri River as a slave state. The North did not want to lose the power of legislation, so they wanted their own new state. California looked prone to be the next free state. Congressional debates over these states would cause national infighting. Ultimately, Southern states backed off. They wanted to preserve slavery's chance in the West, though small in a primarily free, Catholic state.
1824
Part 3
America is not yet out of the story. Though the United States in the North was (finally) done, but Gran Columbia and Brazil where not yet out of action. Gran Columbia held a Constitutional Convention in Bogota. It heavily borrowed off the United States government, but had several differences, such as a single executive. Many Americans came to help the formation of the government. To say they where the only Revolutionaries in Latin America would be a lie.
General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana was born in southern Mexico. He enlisted in the local French army and fought in the Battle of Havana in 1814. He had a good army experience, but following the war when the economy collapsed, his checks started to bounce. Local Mexicans in the region felt the same way. They led a rebellion. The rag-tag army, centered around Veracruz, started to collapse. However, when troops from Honduras invaded the Yucatan, valuable troops left Mexico City to take care of the invasion. The Veracruz Army invaded Mexico City, getting the French viceroy to surrender. The Imperial State of Mexico was formed in the ruins. They annexed British Honduras.
Brazil and Spain started to see the Revolutionary Fever catching on. They quickly moved to put down any rebellion in Argentina and Peru, the last unrebellious places in the New World. However, the Imperial State of Mexico had desires for other nations. They wanted to invade the American Southwest. They slowly began moving troops throughout Nueva Mexico and Baja California. Mexico's Emperor Santa Ana had a battle plan.
1824
Part 4
In Europe, events where happening. In London, the Whigs finally retook control of the government, leading to a peaceful and prosperous era. The third world congress, held in Amsterdam, had ended poorly. Germany was at odds with Hungary and Russia. In March, they invaded Poland and Austria. The Frankfurt government began to fear. Berlin and Munich became major defenses as Vienna and Warsaw fell. The French army reinforced the Germans, and the border war came to a stalemate. The Danish and Swedish would join in the war, but when Greek forces invaded from the south, it all unraveled. Portugal and Spain launched a border war of their own. Then the most powerful rebellion in the world came.
Ireland hated the British with a passion. They launched rebellion after rebellion, but when the fifth rebellion started in June, the Irish where joined by the Scottish. Of the one million strong British armed forces, and the 100,000 armed rebels, half a million died. It was the bloodiest conflict in history. Ireland nearly became independent, until the rebel capitol of Dublin was blown up through a strategy called 'gunpowder bombs,' where thousands of pounds of gunpowder where brought in on British ships, until the Irish blew the ships to pieces. The city would burn to the ground, and in later World Congresses the concept of war crimes outlawed gunpowder bombs.