Challenge: Get As Many U.S States As Possible

Does NOT have to be a U.S wank.

Your challenge, with a POD of 1770, is to have as many states as your can fit into the United States as possible. The U.S can be bigger, smaller, or the same size as OTL.
 
Well the obvious starter is to have Canada fall to the US in 1775-1815. Also in the early years Presidents seemed quite interested in taking over newly independent Hispanic colonies, such the Dominican Republic, Central America. There were even voices calling for the annexation of Mexico during the Mexican-American War if I remember correctly.

If from the get go the United States is interested is annexing Hispanic regions, as the decades go on, Washington's aggressive policy to Latin America could see the Caribbean literally become an American lake.
 
also, there are many proposed states that wanted to secede from their original states to be their own state that never gained enough support. simply have them gain support and become there own US states.
 
also don't forget about splitting up large states, california for instance could easily be like 3 or four states, texas too, perhaps when the constitution is written or something, a state is only allowed to have a certain maximum number of congressmen, so if a state has too much of a population it is split up into smaller states. Obviously this would not work after a while, so you could mayube have it repealed in the late 19th century or something like that.
 
Besides the US becoming hyper imperialistic to protect the Monroe Doctorine, either at the Continential Congress or by amending the constitution later eliminate the House, giving the states incentive to split off in order to have more senators for their population.

Now the interesting thing is how state and local government exists where no state has more than a few million people. Imagine 20 states out of what we call California, or each bourough of NYC having two Senators each.
 
I don't remember at what size a a state have to have to be accepted into the Union but what if they have to split if they reach half the number?
 
Instead of the Connecticut Compromise, the Constitutional Convention adopts the New Jersey plan with a rule requiring Congress to admit new states created out of existing states with the consent of the state legislature provided those states have at least a certain minimum population.

Political disputes over slavery lead to an arms race of states partitioning themselves to maintain sectional representation in Congress (probably triggered by Virginia splitting in the 1830s over a deadlocked state constitutional convention (temporarily resolved IOTL without partitioning the state, but the lasting tension was a major contributing factor to West Virginia secessing from Virginia and rejoining the Union in ACW) and escalating from there).

The practice is revived in the late 19th century by the progressive movement as a means of ensuring representation in Congress be roughly proportional to population. If present-day US population is about the same as OTL and the minimum state population is the same as specified in the Northwest Ordinance (60,000), that means 2500-5000 states in 2009.
 
After the Second American Revolution of 1968-1975, it was decided that the only way to enforce the spirit of the Constitution was to break the country up in to 50,000-person "blocks," each making up a "state" under the new system. These "states," though they had no relation to geographical reality, and were originally assigned somewhat at random, have proved an effective method of of governing the new hyperfederalist American Union.
 
Wasn't there a provision in the joint resolution for the annexation of Texas for the creation of up to five states in the territory comprising the Republic?
 
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