As we know the US gave up the Civil War in 1865 after President Pendleton became president after Little Mac was killed in a streetcar accident. Although the CSA "won" it was in a world of hurt right from the start. The inflation rate was 15% a month (535% a year!), was forced to partially default on its debt, had to almost totally rebuild its railroads, had thousands of slaves roaming the countryside and had maintain an army of 50,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry to prevent the Union from starting round two and to catch runaway slaves. It also lost the state of TN and WV by this time and VA north of the Rappahannock River which went to MD. Slaves more and more started to push Poor Whites out of the factories. Eventually this started a Socialist(Which is why the South is the most pro-Socialist part of the US even today) uprising in the CSA. In 1885 the US invaded the CSA to "Restore order" and the CSA found itself no match for the US with its hundreds of machine guns and its own infighting. The US was also helped when tens of thousands of Poor Whites switched sides when the US government promised that plantation land would be seized and divided up between US soldiers. The CSA finally surrendered in 1887.
Is there any way to prevent this after 1865? The way I see it the CSA was doomed from the start with 1/3 its population in chains and Poor Whites being frozen out of the system.
Is there any way to prevent this after 1865? The way I see it the CSA was doomed from the start with 1/3 its population in chains and Poor Whites being frozen out of the system.
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