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This timeline starts in the thread, Southern America Act of 1774.

The 1830s saw rebellions break in all of the neighbors of the United States of America. In the British Colonies, the spark was the Slavery Abolition Act of 1834. While the British had been moving incrementally towards restrictions of slavery for decades, the act was still jarring for the Southern Colonies of British North America. The linchpin of their whole economy was based on slavery in the form of the cotton trade. While the colonies had pled with Parliament to exempt them from the act and preserve their 'peculiar institution', they failed. Thus did rebellion spark anew in North America.

The heart of the rebellion was South Carolina, the only province of the Southern Colonies that had been forced to remain in the British Empire. However, the cry for revolution spread far and wide, and soon all the Southern Colonies were in armed revolt.

While slavery was a non-issue in Upper and Lower Canada, there were many grievances against the mishandling of colonial rule by the British government, and with the South rising, a militant minority was inspired to take up arms as well, first in Lower Canada but quickly spreading to Upper Canada.

Coincidentally, only a year later in 1835, a series of rebellions broke out in the United States of Mexico, especially in Texas. Texas had a disproportionate amount of English speaking settlers from the United States and the British Southern Colonies, and when several other states of Mexico rose up in protest to the Federalization of Mexico being forced from the government in Mexico City, they too joined the fray.

Ironically, the degree of success (or rather, failure, in most cases) of the British colonial rebellions was inversely proportional to the level of support for them in the United States of America. While the United States never entered the conflict, it did provide poorly disguised covert support to the rebels. Most Americans hoped that an independent Upper Canada would join the United States, but this was the area where the British were most quickly able to extinguish rebellion. The Lower Canadian Rebellion fared better, holding on for several years, and while it is true that many Americans hoped to annex Lower Canada as well, it seems more likely that had the Lower Canadian Rebellion succeeded, it would have formed an independent nation. As it was, eventually both rebellions in the North failed, but in doing so they provided enough distraction to help the only successful rebellion in the South, that of the Southern Colonies. Given the generally negative feelings towards slavery held in the United States, this was the revolution its citizens were most ambivalent about, but was the only one to succeed.

The five colonies of the south, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, West Florida, and East Florida would go on to form a new nation, the Federation of Southern America.

Also in the south, in Mexico this time, the Texians won a decisive victory against the forces of the Central Government and were granted their independence. Immediately a debate began as to whether to remain independent, join the United States of America, or the newborn Federation of Southern America. The last group was a minority, however, and the balance of the argument was between the Independence and United States parties, with those favoring the Federation of Southern America eventually throwing their support behind independence in return for support of legalizing slavery.
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