There has been speculation that if the Douglas Compromise of 1856 (OOC: Never Existed OTL) didn't go through there would have been a war over slavery.
For those who forget the details it was like this
1) The US government paid slave owners $400 per slave payable in 20 year bonds at 3% to compensate them for emancipation
2) There would be a second transcontinental railroad connecting all major Southern cities to Southern California.
3) The West would be immediately opened and any US citizen could buy land out west from the government at 50 cents an acre up to a maximum of 1000 acres.
Is it all realistic that there would be a Civil War and how bloody would it be? Which states would rebel? Would the entire South rebel or just the Deep South?
For those who forget the details it was like this
1) The US government paid slave owners $400 per slave payable in 20 year bonds at 3% to compensate them for emancipation
2) There would be a second transcontinental railroad connecting all major Southern cities to Southern California.
3) The West would be immediately opened and any US citizen could buy land out west from the government at 50 cents an acre up to a maximum of 1000 acres.
Is it all realistic that there would be a Civil War and how bloody would it be? Which states would rebel? Would the entire South rebel or just the Deep South?
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