DBWI Map Challenge

Glen

Glen

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Your Alternate History Map Challenge:

Create a map of an alternate version of the United States of America that reaches to the Pacific. Be certain to show states on your map. Give a brief description of the history of how the US grew to reach the Pacific as depicted in your map. PODs must be after July 4, 1776. This map challenge will close in about 48 hours.

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Mr Stereo1

How about an 'American Corridor' stretching from the east to the west coast as a buffer state between the Mexican and British Empires?
 

NKVD

POD: Congressional Apportionment Amendment added to the Constitution along with the rest of the Bill of Rights. The Federalist Party splits in 1799, with Hamilton's faction nominating a separate candidate for the election of 1800.

There is no Mexican-American War. Texas remains independent, and Washington and Oregon become the country's only links to the Pacific. There is no civil war like the one in OTL - slavery is confined to the South, where it eventually dies out by the early 20th Century.

By the turn of the century, the Socialist Party (one of several major parties ITTL) has complete control over the states of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and to a lesser extent Illinois. A bombing at the Capitol is linked to radical Socialist members of Congress, who are promptly hanged for treason. When new Congressmen from the Rust Belt are appointed - err, I mean, elected, Congress refuses to have them seated. This results in Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania seceding, which ignites a short civil war and an insurgency that would last for decades to come.

The year in this map would be 2012.
 
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Glen

Glen

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Morgan Brykein said:
POD: Congressional Apportionment Amendment added to the Constitution along with the rest of the Bill of Rights. The Federalist Party splits in 1799, with Hamilton's faction nominating a separate candidate for the election of 1800.

There is no Mexican-American War. Texas remains independent, and Washington and Oregon become the country's only links to the Pacific. There is no civil war like the one in OTL - slavery is confined to the South, where it eventually dies out by the early 20th Century.

By the turn of the century, the Socialist Party (one of several major parties ITTL) has complete control over the states of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and to a lesser extent Illinois. A bombing at the Capitol is linked to radical Socialist members of Congress, who are promptly hanged for treason. When new Congressmen from the Rust Belt are appointed - err, I mean, elected, Congress refuses to have them seated. This results in Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania seceding, which ignites a short civil war and an insurgency that would last for decades to come.

The year in this map would be 2012.
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Nice, Morgan. But how does the Congressional Apportionment Amendment lead to the US getting that southern half of the Oregon Country? (OOC: Remember, it's a DBWI map challenge from a timeline where the US did not extend to the Pacific!)
 

NKVD

Glen said:
Nice, Morgan. But how does the Congressional Apportionment Amendment lead to the US getting that southern half of the Oregon Country? (OOC: Remember, it's a DBWI map challenge from a timeline where the US did not extend to the Pacific!)
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Butterflies. The Americans gain the territory after the Oregon Treaty in the 1840s.
 
Glen

Glen

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Well below is my map of North America with a USA that reaches the Pacific.

The timeline is pretty much like our own in the 18th century, with the American Revolutionary War ending in 1783 and the 13 colonies gaining all the territory between the Appalachians and the Mississippi south of the Ohio. In the early 19th Century we see a Napoleonic Louisiana, again much like our timeline, which once more the patriots of British Illinois beat as they march down the Mississippi. The failing Spanish Empire again cedes Florida and Cuba to the USA, for a price, and loses most of the rest of Latin America (except Puerto Rico) to revolution. But instead of the Iturbide Dynasty ruling for generations the new Empire of Mexico, here we see Emperor Iturbide overthrown by republican forces. The fractious Yucatan Peninsula is just as difficult for this nascent Republic of Mexico as it was for OTL's Empire, but here instead of being crushed, they enlist the help of the USA. War breaks out over possession of the Yucatan and eventually takes the Americans to Mexico City itself (I know, some will think this ASB, but look at how close Mexico City is to the coast from Veracruz!). Anyway, the result is a USA that eventually reaches to the Pacific. Knock off effects include annexation of the Dominican Republic by the USA instead of Imperial Mexico, US occupation of Haiti, and expansion of British Honduras and Misquito into a unified colony that eventually comes to include the strip that would be the Lake Nicaraguan Canal IOTL (British North America will still want that short cut to the Pacific).

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Mumby

Mumby

Just as in OTL, the Americans lose the Oregon War, so they turn to the south and try to annex Texas. But they didn't lose as many good generals as in OTL.
During the Mexican American War, the American military performs a lot better. This means the Californian rebels join the Americans, not continue towards independence. Following the war, America annexes California and Upper New Mexico. America thus obtained a Pacific border.

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Mumby

Mumby

Hmmm, maybe. But why would the Americans want it? Remember the Jornando Tragedy? Why would the Americans want that, but permanently?
 
Turquoise Blue

Turquoise Blue

Here is my Ameriwank.

In the War of 1813 (not 1812) the Americans get Nova Scotia
The Americans pay for most of the Oregon Territory up to a parallel, it is a big number. In the Mex-American War the Americans manage to get a bit of Tejas but not that much. Not OTL states is marked on the map.

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