Assistance on TL?

I've posted a few threads on here about a President Douglas in 1860. My POD is in the 1850s where the Southern Democrats and the Northern Democrats reach an agreement on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill and don't split in the election of 1860.

Here's a quick TL I have solidified from 1854-1902.

1860 - Douglas/Breckenridge (D) defeats Lincoln/Hamlin (R) for President.

1861 - Kansas is admitted as a slave state. The sparsely populated Nebraska is, after much debate, admitted as a free state. President Douglas, after crisis is averted, creates a Department of Transportation to begin to foster his national railroad to first connect the Mississippi with the Pacific and later the Atlantic. He hopes to one day include all forms of American transportation: roads, trains, and shipping, under the Department's governmental control.

1862 - Second Mexican War ends with the conquest of Mexico and creation of five new states: Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora, and Arizona. Four become slave states and one is a free state, thus restoring the balance of slave/free states. The rest of Mexico becomes the Commonwealth of Mexico. Among the heroes of the war are Robert E. Lee, Ulysses Grant, Winfield Hancock, and Sergeant John Wilkes Booth.

The war causes Douglas to issue the Emancipation Proclamation after Britain threatens to come to Mexico's defense if America enslaves another entire race of people. (However, no Constitu

1863 - Abraham Lincoln forms the Solidarity Party.

1864 - Douglas/Breckenridge (D) defeat Stevens/Kirkwood (R) for President.

1868 - Robert E. Lee (D) defeats Charles Sumner (R) and John Fremont (S) for President.

1869 - Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin works out two deals. One with the Zionists who are beginning to forment in Europe, to buy Alaska from Russia for repayment in their successful colonization. And another with the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory: to "colonize" the western frontier in return for tribute and an orderly society.

1872 - Charles F. Adams (S) defeats Robert A. Toombs (D) for President.

1876 - Charles F. Adams (S) is reelected over John Wilkes Booth (D).

1879 - The Confederate States of America is formed under John Wilkes Booth and leads a surprise attack on Washington, D.C. killing President Adams in its wake.

1880 - President Winfield Scott Hancock (S), the late President Adams' VP, runs unopposed in the midst of the Civil War.

1882 - In Texas, Andrew Jackson Houston begins a political rebellion in his father's namesake city to rejoin the Union. His revolution leads to armed rebellion against the Confederacy, but is quickly crushed by General George Atzerodt. Houston is hanged, but his Unionist Democratic Party lives on in secret.

1883 - Britain joins America's war effort, realizing that the Confederacy may actually achieve independence. Their claim for joining the war is altruism as Booth begins to reinstate slavery of Mexicans and Blacks. Their true hope is to obtain some form of their New Imperialism in America. General Boston Corbett proves himself the top Union General.

1884 - Hancock (S) wins reelection over James Blaine (D).

1885 - British and Union armies race to Montgomery, Alabama: Booth's last capital. A minority insurgency led by Booker T. Washington beats them to it and lets loose, raping, killing, and plundering the city. American and British troops relieve Washington, and then "civilly" sack the city to reach Booth. The CSA President shoots himself before either blacks or whites take him alive. General Atzerodt is the General to surrender the last CSA forces to General Corbett.

1886 - Treaty of Philadelphia is signed by the British and the Americans, dismantling the Confederacy, and setting up Reconstruction zones from Chihuahua to Maryland. The British demand compensation. By right, they declare that they SHOULD receive the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. But the Americans will never accept it. Rumors of an alliance between Generals Corbett, Atzerodt, Zaragoza and Quantrill against a war scare are stirred, but dissipate once a compromise is worked out: the British will control New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, and Charleston until 1/1/1901 when they will be transferred back to American control.

1888 - Benjamin F. Butler (S) defeats Alson Streeter (D) for President.

1891 - 13th (banning slaver), 14th (granting blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans citizenship), 15th (grants minorities the vote), and 16th (allowing immigrants to run for President) Amendments are passed.

1892 - Boston Corbett (S) defeats James Weaver (D) for President.

1894 - Corbett's increasing insanity causes him to declare war on Austria-Hungary and sends troops to Europe. His insanity is challenged inside the US Government and by foreign powers.

1895 - Thanks to a royal marriage and political chess playing, Nicholas II of Russia becomes Nicholas I of the United Empire of Russia and Spain. Yes, the Spanish and Russian Empires unite into one.

1895 - Just before the American army reaches Vienna (and creates an even worse situation than a war with Austria, Prussia, Italy, and Bavaria) President Corbett is impeached and removed in absentia and is replaced by Vice President George A. Custer.

1896 - Amidst the apologies and the reparations to European countries following Corbett's War, President Custer (S) defeats Samuel Gompers (D) for President. At this point, the Democrats are social liberals and economic conservatives. The Solidarities are social conservatives and economic liberals. Samuel Gompers, who would more likely be on the Solidarity party if we ISOT'd him from OTL, is looking more towards the plight of "the minorities." America is virtually the same society east of the Mississippi. But west of it, you have Native Americans, blacks, Hispanics, and many poor white people who have moved east along President Douglas' National Railroad. Their communities reflect the Jewish Kibbutzes of the 1950s and in other cases, as English colonies akin to Jamestown and Plymouth. These communes have their roots in the Emancipation Proclamation's date of affect: 1/1/1863, but have been ignored on the political scene until President Butler began considering them as part of Reconstruction planning, President Corbett desired them to integrate into normal American society, and but the Custer Administration simply ignored them and believed that what's good for society would include all races and socio-economic classes, including the communes. Inversely, the communes believed they were being ignored by Washington.

1900 - Samuel Gompers runs again as a Democrat under the banner of prosperity for all Americans: farmers, manufacturers and communes. At the same time, the Democrats are losing more and more seats to the Union Party, more popularly known as the Houstonites. The Houstonites are too divided to gather a Presidential candidate. The Solidarity Party wins in a landslide. Custer wins a second term.

1902 - The Northern and west coast states are staunchly Solidarity. The southern states have quickly shifted to Houstonite. The only Democratic states are now in the west, where communes are alive and strong, and faith in Jacksonian Republicanism survives. However, they begin to cite John Locke and believe President Custer has failed them. There is a communal movement to support Samuel Gompers as head of a new Popular Republic of America. Seven states have their governors hounded from office in the American west, and are replaced by Democratic Secessionists, who are 5/7 communal mayors beforehand. The Democratic Uprising (or as it's known out west: the Second Civil War) lasts a total of six months when President Custer calls in the National Guard. Despite calls for hanging because of treason, Samuel Gompers was explicitly agains the Uprising and is distanced from any and all association.

1903 - Thanks to TWO secessionist movements and Civil War caused by the Democratic Party, the states bring an amendment to debate: Outlawing the National Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson. The Solidarity Party is all for it, strict Constitutionalists in the Houstonite Party fight the Bill, but the states near-demand it's admission to the Constitution and the 17th Amendment is passed.
 
This is the TimeLine I have set in stone. Granted, it's still subject to minor changes, but after this, I'm fuzzy about what happens. I don't really want to have a Roosevelt as President, but I think TR makes the perfect Solidarity candidate.

This isn't my full TL, obviously, but I'm looking for some feedback.

Here's some effects that I couldn't find a full place for in the TL:

-Due to Corbett's War, Austria becomes increasingly unified while the German states are divided about the war. Reversing the positions of Germany and Austria in the near future.

-The Houstonite Party, obviously, rises to become the opposition party. Their first President is Nehemiah Black, who breaks all sorts of rational American political thinking, but becomes one of America's best Presidents.

-Originally, I tried describing this, but I'll list it instead:

Amendments to the Constitution of the United States:
1. Freedom of Speech, Religion, Assumbly, and Petition. (9/25/1789)
2. Militia and Right to Bear Arms. (9/25/1789)
3. The Quartering of Soldiers. (9/25/1789)
4. Search and Seizure. (9/25/1789)
5. Grand Juries, Self-Incrimination, Double Jeopardy, Due Process, and Eminent Domain. (9/25/1789)
6. Criminal Court Procedures. (9/25/1789)
7. Trial by Jury in Civil Cases. (9/25/1789)
8. Bail, Cruel and Unusual Punishment. (9/25/1789)
9. The Rights Retained by the People. (9/25/1789)
10. Reserved Powers of the States. (9/25/1789)
11. Suits against States. (2/7/1795)
12. Election of the President. (6/15/1804)
13. Prohibition of Slavery. (7/9/1891)
14. Citizenship, Due Process, and Equal Protection of the Laws. (7/9/1891)
15. The Right to Vote (7/9/1891)
16. Immigrant Nomination for President (9/14/1891)
17. Outlawing of the Democratic Party (12/8/1903)
18. Popular Election of Senators (4/8/1913)
19. Prohibition (1/16/1916)
20. Women's Right to Vote (8/18/1920)
21. Repeal of Prohibition (12/5/1933)
22. Repeal of the 16th Amendment (3/13/1942)

That's all I have for now.
 
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