The Articles of Confederation were generally considered as a failure because of tariffs and other conflicts between states. What if the Constitutional Convention failed for some reason? Let's consider a gunpowder plot or equivalent.
1. The states disintegrate as a nation and the country doesn't even try to be united.
2. Military conflict between states over disputed territory breaks out.
3. The US navy is semipiratical, enforcing tariffs on imports and exports for financing as states issue writs of marque and reprisal on each other.
4. Britain and France are too busy fighting each other to interfere.
5. The transappalachia region forms it's own states and everything is up for grabs in terms of free land to homesteaders.
6. Slaves and indentured servants run away and cross state lines, and are not retrieved.
7. Money can be gold, silver, copper, or whatever. The area that becomes Michigan goes with copper. Missouri goes with silver. Most of the rest with gold.
8. Louisiana becomes independent as a result of a US raid while France is busy someplace else, followed by massive US immigration.
9. Patents do not exist on an interstate basis. Whitney does not invent the cotton gin. Slavery continues to die out.
10. The US government can only function with unanimous consent, which never happens, especially when the transappalchia states show up and are admitted, or refused.
11. Free trade (except for the small tariffs enacted by the Navy for financing) makes America popular as a trading partner to everybody in Europe.
12. New York still builds the Erie Canal and becomes the major entrepot, as in OTL.
13. Washington DC never becomes important. Philadelphia is still the defacto capitol.
14. Slavery is abandoned around 1810 when the last fugitive slave is captured in Mississippi, and then the bounty agent is murdered by a person or persons unknown.
1. The states disintegrate as a nation and the country doesn't even try to be united.
2. Military conflict between states over disputed territory breaks out.
3. The US navy is semipiratical, enforcing tariffs on imports and exports for financing as states issue writs of marque and reprisal on each other.
4. Britain and France are too busy fighting each other to interfere.
5. The transappalachia region forms it's own states and everything is up for grabs in terms of free land to homesteaders.
6. Slaves and indentured servants run away and cross state lines, and are not retrieved.
7. Money can be gold, silver, copper, or whatever. The area that becomes Michigan goes with copper. Missouri goes with silver. Most of the rest with gold.
8. Louisiana becomes independent as a result of a US raid while France is busy someplace else, followed by massive US immigration.
9. Patents do not exist on an interstate basis. Whitney does not invent the cotton gin. Slavery continues to die out.
10. The US government can only function with unanimous consent, which never happens, especially when the transappalchia states show up and are admitted, or refused.
11. Free trade (except for the small tariffs enacted by the Navy for financing) makes America popular as a trading partner to everybody in Europe.
12. New York still builds the Erie Canal and becomes the major entrepot, as in OTL.
13. Washington DC never becomes important. Philadelphia is still the defacto capitol.
14. Slavery is abandoned around 1810 when the last fugitive slave is captured in Mississippi, and then the bounty agent is murdered by a person or persons unknown.