Challenge: Make the American West independent

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make all or most of the United States west of the Rockies independent, with a POD no earlier than 2 February 1848 and no later than December 31st, 1899.

Extra points if you can make this happen before the end of the American Civil War.

Extra extra points if you can have more than one independent state west of the Rockies (even if one of those states happens to come into existence after the upper limit for the POD).
 

Japhy

Banned
Congress doesn't make California. Without the massive self-drawn state, you can seriously delay Pacific coast statehood. This builds pressure that leads to secession. It was part of the argument for making our massive California of IOTL. One Bear Flag revolt is followed by another.

Also worth mentioning that wikipedia says in 1861 that Secessionists in California were only stopped from taking the state out of the Union because Albert S. Johnson stuck to his oath and refused to help them take the Federal Arsenal in the state. Take that as you will, but theoretically a militia coup could trigger a Pacific Republic in the ACW era, and you can always turn the Civil War into a Union defeat...
 
Congress doesn't make California. Without the massive self-drawn state, you can seriously delay Pacific coast statehood. This builds pressure that leads to secession. It was part of the argument for making our massive California of IOTL. One Bear Flag revolt is followed by another.

Also worth mentioning that wikipedia says in 1861 that Secessionists in California were only stopped from taking the state out of the Union because Albert S. Johnson stuck to his oath and refused to help them take the Federal Arsenal in the state. Take that as you will, but theoretically a militia coup could trigger a Pacific Republic in the ACW era, and you can always turn the Civil War into a Union defeat...

Thanks! filler
 
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