DBAHC: No Second American Civil War

[KaiserWilhelm]

Your challenge is to prevent the second civil war from breaking out. Race relations in the South post-1864 (when the Union defeated the CSA) were tense, especially as President Chase and Attorney General Lincoln enforced the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil Rights Acts. Eventually things boiled to a head after radical Republican William McKinley won the election of 1892, causing the South to secede again.

 

[AltoRegnant]

Have Lee be the one to surrender and not Davis. The south felt that their elite had surrendered, not their military- and thus they hadn't been defeated. It's part of why the lost cause is so prominent on the economic left

 

[JonKenobi]

I say you have to remove Lincoln.

His soft touch and 10% plan didn't really make the south pay for their treason. The radicals wanted harsher penalties that would have broken up the South's power that much more.

Of course Teddy and others stomped them in the second war, but still..

 

[TheRockofChickamauga]

I agree with both the previous two replies. You have to make clear that it is the military surrendering, and preferably have the commanders tell their men that the war is over and that they should return home and be loyal (Maybe you can offer that any commander who does this can avoid the noose that many of them found IOTL). And then of course if this doesn't work, than harsher reconstruction and more crackdowns on their paramilitary groups is the way to go. A couple of the 2nd CSA's fire-eaters, like their President Ben Tillman or VP Edward D. White having "unfortunate accidents" also couldn't hurt if pulled off covertly enough.

 

[Byzantion]

Your challenge is to prevent the second civil war from breaking out. Race relations in the South post-1864 (when the Union defeated the CSA) were tense, especially as President Chase and Attorney General Lincoln enforced the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil Rights Acts. Eventually things boiled to a head after radical Republican William McKinley won the election of 1892, causing the South to secede again.

We wouldn´t have seen the increasing fatalities because of the introduction of Mini-Guns to the battlefields. The increasing use of Trench warfare and mashine guns and submarines were studied with horror and interest by European and Japanese observers of the conflict.