Lincoln’s reputation in the present might suffer but future generations will realise what an utter chad he was for preventing America from having race problems for decades more to come.
Strictly speaking, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery everywhere in America as the emancipation proclamation was a wartime executive order and was open to challenge in the courts.It also would need to be reissued every 2 years.April, 1865
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But nothing matched the problems of dealing with the Negro in modern society.
The proposed 13th Amendment would, no doubt, be passed easily. This would formally abolish slavery in America for all those borders states which had been exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation. Many Marylanders, Kentuckians, Missourians, etc, would be unhappy but plainly had to see this coming.
I am not sure how voting rights will prevent race problems in the future.Lincoln’s reputation in the present might suffer but future generations will realise what an utter chad he was for preventing America from having race problems for decades more to come.
Majority black states?? Unless all the freed slaves migrate to one or two states, we’re not getting a majority black state.
Jim Crow stalled the normalisation of race relations and civil rights for decades. If Reconstruction had stamped it out and allowed blacks their full voting rights, racists would find it much harder to rise to power, causing a trend toward moderation.I am not sure how voting rights will prevent race problems in the future.
Well, let aside that the butterflies of an Argentine divided between the province of BS, As., and the 'Argentine Confederation', would have made unlikely the recents political development in the region. And, even more that the leader of the landlocked Paraguay, even if a so 'overconfident' as OTL, would have decided to become so pro British,'d have been so trustful of the British support, as to risk a war over it...The arrival of thousands of European and African mercenaries should put a quick end to this nonsense.
Will Kurdistan be getting its own local government with Russian aid?
Well, let aside that the butterflies of an Argentine divided between the province of BS, As., and the 'Argentine Confederation', would have made unlikely the recents political development in the region. And, even more that the leader of the landlocked Paraguay, even if a so 'overconfident' as OTL, would have decided to become so pro British,'d have been so trustful of the British support, as to risk a war over it...
But, perhaps, the French expedition,'d be 'useful', if these troops would serve as a way to dissuade/make to desist to the Paraguayan leader, and so, ITTL avoid that'd start one of the bloodiest Latin American wars...
But, if they'd fail to achieve it, then I fear that they would be pretty useless given that if there were something that the local powers not lacked were troops, but even if clearly not at European level. But, the South Americans had the key advantage that their armies could be deployed and operate either in the Chaco and in the Mato Grosso, earlier and more importantly easier supplied than the French, who would have to do it and fight, at the end of a very large logistical chain...
So the US is looking the other way with Haiti just due to war exhaustion?
The US could build better coastal defences with heavy guns that can reach far out to sea to defend coastal cities.
Those big guns could be useful when America gets a blue water navy. The budget of coastal defence could be used to make it seem to congress that America was not spending on the navy but in reality, the money spend on improving coastal defence would be spent on building battleships on land and the tech would later be transferred to the navy.
I could see the Americans putting a lot of money into developing submarines. strangely one of the first modern submarines built was for the Fenians by John Philp holland.
The main purpose of early submarines would be coastal defence and breaking blockades.John Philip Holland - Wikipedia
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The Irish rebelling and being transported to Australia could be a much larger prison escape and recuse aby American ships.
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The royal navy will see them as not the weapon of a gentleman.I think I will add the submersibles to this TL as you suggest.