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  • The Battle of Santa Fe

    Votes: 3 18.8%
  • The Guns of Cherbourg

    Votes: 6 37.5%
  • The Fourth Battle of Toledo

    Votes: 5 31.3%
  • Battle of the Rhone

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • Total voters
    16
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The Federal Republic of America 1808-1820 Part I
The Senate Election of 1807: No Respect, we get no respect, no gratitude

The Elections of October 2, 1806 would see the most sweeping change in the Federal Senate yet. The lead up to the Election saw a surprising number of strong American Democracy Party candidates who ran against the excesses of the Federalist Party and the “Over centralization of power. Within the Federal Republic” The chief plank in the American Democracy Party’s platform was the direct election amendment which would allow the people to elect the president of the republic no the Senate. Now this wasn’t new it had been part of the party’s platform since George Clinton but for some reason in the fall of 1807 having beaten the British and reclaimed much of the lost territories it took root like never before. October 2, 1806 was a crisp fall day and would see the American Democracy Party take control of the Senate sending the Federalist Party into the minority for the first time since the founding of the country.

1806 election results (seats taken/the state’s total seats)

American Democracy Party
NY: 1/3
NJ: 2/3
Del: 2/3
Pen:3/3
Erie: 1/3

Total: 9/15

Federalist Party
NY: 2/3
NJ: 0/3
Del: 1/3
Pen:0/3
Erie: 2/3

Total: 5/15

Anti-Mason Party
NY: 0/3
NJ: 1/3
Del: 0/3
Pen:0/3
Erie: 0/3

Total: 1/15


Meaning that the new Senate when sworn in on March 4, 1807 for the first time since the country was founded the Federalist would be in the Minority in the Senate. As the Christmas holiday passed and the republic moved into the New Year the parties began to sound out their presidential candidates. The American Democracy Party chose New York Governor Arron Burr. Burr had pushed hardest for the party to stump hard on the Election amendment and as its latest and greatest champion he was the natural choice, for an easy victory come March. The Federalist had a harder choice to make they needed someone who could reach across the aisle and swing the Anti Mason and three American Democracy Party Senators. They offered it to Hamilton’s right hand man John Jay of New York who looking at the incoming senate politely declined and chose instead to run for the vacant New York Governor’s office once Burr won the Presidency. So instead the Federalist nominated Richard Paul Burbank the Attorney General of Erie; a westerner and son of a tanner was the party’s best bet at accomplishing the impossible.

Hamilton and the Federalist now decide to use their lame duck session to pass the Western Territory Act of 1807. This Act divides the reclaimed territory into two territories the Ohio Territory in the east and the Mississippi Territory in the west. This act also sets the path for these two territories to become states setting the threshold for statehood when each had reached a population of 90,000 people and created its own state constitution.

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Richard Paul Burbank of Eire Federalist Candidate for President 1807



March 11, 1807

The Day was an energetic on in the temporary capital of Philadelphia with a 4 vote majority the American Democracy Party was set to elect its first president and change the course of the Republic at least a little. On the other side of the aisle Richard Burbank and the federalist hoped to pull off a miracle. Then the first vote of the day occurred and low and behold it came in Burr 7, Burbank 7. Burbank had done it he had at least flipped one ADP senator as well as the Anti-Mason senator. As the parties huddled in the recess before the second vote the mood in senate hall grew heated. The second vote was held at 11am. This time Burr would carry all 9 ADP votes, Burbank would still carry the Anti-Mason vote for a total of 6. At 11:10 am Arron Burr was sworn in to the Office of the President of the Federal Republic of America. However this would not be the last appearance of Richard P. Burbank from Erie. Burr would appoint William Findlay of Pennsylvania as Consul to the Senate.


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Governor of New York Arron Burr, American Democracy Party; Second President of the Federal Republic of America.

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Consul William Findlay of Pennsylvania


1807-1811

Burr’s first term would be marked by the bringing of the Presidential Election Amendment to the floor of the Senate. It would pass on June 21, 1808 with a vote of 10 to 5, it would take effect on January 1, 1809 and be implemented for the first time on October 2, 1810 the fall before Burr’s first term ended on March 11, 1811.

We the Senators of the States of the Federal Republic of America and the people who make up those states. Here by change the Constitution of the Federal Republic of America so that it shall read “The President of the Federal Republic of America shall be elected by the majority vote of the people of the states of the Federal Republic of America. This election shall be held every October 2nd of the year preceding the end of the current President’s term in office.

After signing the Presidential Election amendment into law Burr would kill two military approbations Act that the Senate passed. This soured him in the minds of many of the military personal of the country and their families. This would see the Federalist reclaim the majority in the Senate in the 1810 elections.

Senate Election of 1809

American Democracy Party
NY: 0/3
NJ: 1/3
Del: 2/3
Pen:2/3
Erie: 1/3
Total: 6/15

Federalist Party
NY: 3/3
NJ: 1/3
Del: 1/3
Pen:1/3
Erie: 2/3

Total: 8/15

Anti-Mason Party
NY: 0/3
NJ: 1/3
Del: 0/3
Pen:0/3
Erie: 0/3

Total: 1/15


The loss of control of the senate means that Burr has to barter in order to get his agenda though the senate this would see the passage of the Defense Bill of 1811. This law raised the size of the Federal Army from 55,000 to 90,000 active troops and allowed the State Guard units recruit from a maximum of 35,000 to 45,000 active troops per state. This Defense bill also allocated money for the acquisition of ships for the Federal Navy. The Lake Ontario Fleet was to receive six 24 gun sloops, and two 52 gun Great Lakes Ships of the Line. The Lake Erie Fleet would receive identical ships. The Atlantic Fleet was to receive seven new ships of the line ranging from 64 to 100 guns, twenty frigates ranging form 28 to 48 guns, and fifty sloops ranging from 18 to 24 guns.

In the summer of 1810 the political parties of the Federal Republic of America began getting ready for the first election of the president to take place outside of the Senate. The American Democracy Party would run Burr for his second term. The Federalist were forced to hunt Burbank was serving out is first year as Governor of Erie and declined John Jay was in retirement at his home in upper New York. After much arm twisting Jay was convinced to run. The In the Run up to October 2, 1811 surrogates of both men crisscrossed the republic making the case for their candidate, while party owned newspapers attacked the other. October 2, 1810 was a cool rainy day though out much of the Federal Republic as the people went to vote to choose who would be president for the first time ever. Burr would carry the day taking 52% of the national vote, Jay came in a close second with 47% of the national vote, and the Anti-Mason Party’s Paul McHenry of New Jersey would bring in just 1% of the national vote. Burr had won his second term as President.

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John Jay of New York Federalist Candidate for President in 1812
 
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The Federal Republic of America 1808-1820 Part II
Arron Burr’s second and third term 1812-1816

The Biggest event for the FRA during Arron Burr’s second term occurred on June 3, 1812 when John Hancock Hall a gunsmith at the Trenton Arsenal, brought his new breach loading rifle before the Federal Army Ordnance Board. Although many of the senior members were very skeptical of this new rifle the however the commander of the Ordnance Board Brigadier General John E. Wool who ordered a demonstration of the rifle. On June 4, 1812 Corporal Henry Grumman and Sargent Alexander Jarkoff bout carry out the demonstration both were veterans of the War of 1805 and were rated excellent shots. In a ten minuet contest Jarkoff armed with the new Hall’s rifle was able to get off three shots to everyone that Grumman armed with the current Model 1803 Rifle could. Wool would see the rifle adopted as the primary long arm of the Federal Army that day. The Federal Government would by sole rights to produce the Rifle naming it the Model 1812 Rifle. The rifle would prove so efferent that it would remain the standard issue rifle of the Federal army until the adoption of the bolt action Model 1880. During this time the rifle would receive only minor modifications such as the switching from a Flint lock to a Cap lock in the 1840’s.

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The Model 1812 Rifle

The Election of 1813 would see the Federalist still keep control of the senate as the sole Anti-Mason senator lost his seat to a Federalist; who held on to all eight of their seats. This election would mark the end of the Anti-Mason Party as a national player in the Federal Republic of America; while they would continue to have a small role to play in state and local governments after 1813 they would never again elect a senator.

Senate Election of 1813

American Democracy Party

NY: 0/3

NJ: 1/3

Del: 2/3

Pen:2/3

Erie: 1/3

Total: 6/15

Federalist Party

NY: 3/3

NJ: 2/3

Del: 1/3

Pen:1/3

Erie: 2/3

Total: 9/15

Anti-Mason Party

NY: 0/3

NJ: 0/3

Del: 0/3

Pen:0/3

Erie: 0/3

Total: 0/15

Burr’s second term would demonstrate that he could reach across the aisle and work with the Federalist to get laws passed. On March 1, 1814 the Federal Republic celebrated the completion of the Erie Canal. The Canal linked the Hudson river at Watertown to Lake Erie at Buffalo Ny. The Canal was deep enough and wide enough for an ocean going sloop to transit from the Atlantic to the Great Lakes. The Canal was officially opened at 1pm when a ribbon was cut by the canal’s main backer former President Alexander Hamilton.

While the Federalist had control of the Senate Burr had the love of the people and he easily won reelection to his third term on October 2, 1814 defeating the Federalist candidate Thomas Dewy the former of Delaware. By a vote of Burr 65% of the vote to Dewy’s 35% of the vote. On March 11, 1815 Arron Burr would be sworn in for the third and final time.

Burr’s third term would be a busy one. On June 7, 1816 the Senate would pass the Freedom Act ending what little slavery still existed in the Federal Republic (mainly in Delaware and Erie). Slaves would become freedmen on January 1, 1817 with the Federal Government paying off the slave owners at a fair price.

Burr’s next feet in his final term as President was arranging the Wheeling Exchange, between the Federal Republic of America and The Commonwealth of American States. This treaty signed on October 1, 1816 would see the Federal Republic of America buy the Virginia Panhandle from the Commonwealth of American States for the sum of 875,550 dollars. This creates straight border along the Mason-Dixon line between the two republics east of the Ohio River. The bulk of the new land would be joined to Pennsylvania however a 25 square mile block creating a new Federal District around the city of Wheeling. Which was renamed Hamilton after the first president of the Republic. The City of Hamilton would become the new capital of the Republic. A grand new Capital Building was designed and construction would begin on April 2, 1817.

However the event that would define Burr’s third term was the outbreak of the New English Civil in April 1817. Across the country men clamored to intervene in the conflict on the side of the Republicans. Adm Had another man been president at this time then the Federal Republic of America might well have intervened on behalf of the New English Republicans; however, Burr was a firm believer in the right of people to decide upon their government no matter how distasteful he may find it personally. He would keep the republic out of the war much and in doing so greatly damage his political standing in the Republic. Burr would sign the Anti-American Royalist embargo on the royalist for the duration of the civil war. As the war drug on and it became clear that New England Would be splitting into Burr was the first to recognize the Republic of Vermont and following the signing of the Wolfe-Maxwell Treaty in June of 1818. Burr would personally negotiate the Connecticut River Defense Pact under which the Federal Republic would pay for a series of defensive forts to be build in Vermont and West Connecticut along the Connecticut River. The Federal Army would also aid in the training and equipping of the Republic of Vermont’s professional military and militias. Signed along side this was the Republican Duty Free Trade Pact in which both the Federal Republic of America and the Republic of Vermont both swore to never impose tariffs on goods moving between the two republics. Both of these were signed on July 4, 1819; while both of theses were popular with the people of the Republic they were not enough to same the American Democracy Party from Burr’s sagging approval ratings.

The 1815 Senate Election would reflect the people anger at Burr

Senate Election of 1815

American Democracy Party

NY: 0/3

NJ: 1/3

Del: 1/3

Pen:2/3

Erie: 0/3

Total: 4/15

Federalist Party

NY: 3/3

NJ: 2/3

Del: 2/3

Pen:1/3

Erie: 3/3

Total: 11/15

1818 was an election year, and as early as July it looked like it would be a grim year for the American Democracy Party. The American Democracy Party would nominate their Consul of the Senate William Findlay of Pennsylvania, even if he objected at first as he viewed himself too close the unpopular Burr. But in the end he agreed to run. On the other side the Federalist were riding the wave. The people of the Republic were once more looking on their party with favor. Although they had no shortage of men wanting to run they knew they had one really choice; the popular Governor of the State of Erie Richard Paul Burbank. On the campaign trail the American Democracy Party ran on the reforms that they had accomplished during the 12 years they had been in the Presidency. The Federalist ran on a platform of finishing the job of restoring the rest of the old Northwest Territory, and readying the Republic to cast out the specter of Monarchy that Arron Burr and the American Democrats had allowed to haunt once more the homes of their New English Cousins. On October 2, 1819 the election was not even close, Burbank would win 78% of the vote, while Findlay would carry just 22% of the vote. The American Democracy Party would manage to old its four Senate seats, leaving the Federalist still holding its 11 seats an seven seat majority.

Senate Election of 1819

American Democracy Party

NY: 0/3

NJ: 1/3

Del: 1/3

Pen:2/3

Erie: 0/3

Total: 4/15

Federalist Party

NY: 3/3

NJ: 3/3

Del: 2/3

Pen:1/3

Erie: 3/3

Total: 11/15

On November 7, 1819 after the elections had been officially certified by the Senate Alexander Hamilton passed away peacefully in his sleep in his house in New York City at the age of 64. He would receive a state funeral in Federal Hall in New York City. Perhaps fittingly Hamilton’s funeral would be the last official act for the old capital building of the Federal Republic of America. On January 1, 1820 Arron Burr in a splendid if cold ceremony would open the new Capital Building in Hamilton City. Becoming the first President to reside in the new Federal Palace with its Massive Golden Dome located on Wheeling Island in the middle of Hamilton City.


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Federal Palace on Wheeling Island in Hamilton

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Painting of Hamilton that Hangs in the Presidential Wing of the Federal Palace
 
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good question but the CAS isn't a threat to the FRA they have had a mutual defense treaty since the War of 1805. For the FRA the threat is Britain who they still hold a grudge aginst over the loss of the Northwest Territory before the old USA fell, and Now the Crown Republic of New England. The FRA may not like slavery but most view it as what their cousins do in their home is their business.
 
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North America Map as of 1820
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Green: Empire of Mexico
Dark Green: Russian Empire
Yellow: Disputed land
Gray: Federal Republic of America
Red: British Empire
Navy Blue: Commonwealth of American States
Royal Blue: Kingdom of France
Burgundy: Crown Republic of New England
Brown: Republic of Colombia
Dark Pink: Republic of Cuba
Lime green Republic of Vermont
Powder Blue: Republic of Louisiana
 
The Commonwealth of American States 1808-1820 Part 1
1807-1812: Commonwealth Victorious!

April 14, 1807 Williamsburg, C.G.D (Commonwealth Government District)

It was a bright and sunny spring day in Virginia as Chancellor Monroe stood and watch the formations of the Armies of the Commonwealth States march past the reviewing stand that had been erected. The troops marching by were clad in the standard uniform of the Commonwealth army blue Jackets and white pants with different colored Collars and cuff representing the state to which they belonged. Each marched behind a color guard made up of the National Flag, and their State Flag. The Virginia force lead the column with General Henry Lee IV at their head, then came South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Maryland and last was North Carolina led by General Andrew Jackson. Monroe couldn’t help but be amazed these boys had stood toe to toe with Great Britain just as their fathers and grandfathers had in the Revolution and had once again come away victorious. Next Month he would travel to Charleston South Carolina for the Navy’s Fleet Review as the men of the one true pan commonwealth force would celebrate its victories over the Royal Navy.

May 7, 1807 would see the Commonwealth of American States and the Federal Republic of America sign the American Defense Pact in which both countries pledged to come to each other’s aid if one was attacked by a foreign power, however each was not forced to take part in any offensive war started by the other signer. The ADP would become the backbone to close to 300 years of Foreign Policy by both countries.

June 2, 1807 was a rough day for both Chancellor Monroe and Speaker of the House Madison. At eight o’clock that morning Madison had brought before the Commonwealth Territory Act of 1807. This Act would define how the Commonwealth would administer the Bahamas Territory that it had acquired from Britain during the War of 1805 but it would also seek to regulate the budding colonial empires that several states were founding in Africa to maintain the Unity of the Commonwealth. The bill as presented would grant the Bahamas to Florida, in exchange Florida would agree to end any future colonial ambitions. South Carolina’s East Carolina County would be defined by the Fatala River in the North and the Little Scarcies River in the South Its eastern limit would be 170 miles east of Tombo Island. From this would be developed the Standard Colonial Block of 215 miles wide by 170 miles deep. One colony fitting this scale on the Continent of Africa, would be allowed to any state that chose to settle it. The Last clause read that any land added to the commonwealth after this Act was passed would require the House to amend the Commonwealth Territory Act, to allow for the governance of that new land as deemed fit. The act would passed by the house on June 24, 1807 by a vote of 33 for to 21 against Monroe would sign it into law two days later on June 26, 1807.

The House of Delegates Election on November 10, 1807 would see the final breakup of the Alliance of Commonwealth Parties. In its place that year would be The Commonwealth Chartist Party and the Commonwealth Manifest Destiny Party, alongside the well-known State Nationalist Parties and the ever present Anti Masons Party. It was also the first election for the new enlarged House of Delegates gaining 13 seats thanks to population growth shown in the census. The SNA became to majority party with 28 seats, The Commonwealth Manifest Destiny Party would be second with 18 seats, the Commonwealth Chartist Party would take 16, and the Anti Mason party would take 5 seats. With a ten seat majority the SNA had no problems electing Thomas J. Reed of Virginia as the new Speaker of the House.
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Thomas J. Reed of Charlotte County of Virginia Speaker of the House of Delegates


In 1809 Chancellor Monroe and Speaker Reed call for the House to pass a new naval bill to replace the ships lost during the War of 1805. After three months of debate the Naval Bill of 1809 is passed it sets aside funding for the construction of 8 new Ships of the line, 18 Frigates all of the American Heavy type, 24 sloops of war plus 28 Brigs and some 33 cutters. These ships are to be laid down in the period between January 1, 1810 and December 31, 1815, to stagger the cost. However by 1820 the Commonwealth Navy will have 18 ships of the line, 31 frigates, 38 sloops and numerous brigs and cutters. The Naval Bill of 1809 also sets aside funding for the establishment of the Commonwealth Marine Brigade. This brigade would receive specialized training in amphibious landings like those carried out by General Andrew Jackson during the War of 1805. A young Colonel in the Virginia Old Dominion Guards who had distinguished himself in the siege of Fort George III Winfield Scott was given command of this new Brigade. He was not promoted to Brigadier General as a Brigade in the Army would require as the Marine Brigade was part of the Navy and the rank of Naval Captain and Colonel are equivalent; creating the president where the Commonwealth Marines use Army Rank titles but along the Naval lines.

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Colonel Winfield Scott Commander of the Commonwealth Marine Brigade

November 5, 1811 would see the general election for the Commonwealth House of Delegates. With the split now almost six years behind them the Political Parties had almost completed their realignment. The Commonwealth Chartist Party now representing the conservative side of Commonwealth Politics came close to taking the majority with 20 sets seeing several SNA members join the Party, Commonwealth Manifest Destiny Party stood firmly in the expansionist part of Commonwealth Politics took 18 seats While the SNA now starting its slide to a factional party would just hold the Majority with 24 seats. The Anti Masons Party would hold their 5 seats. Thomas Reed would remain the speaker of the house come March 4, 1812. March 4, 1812 would also see the Third Chancellor election for the Commonwealth. The favorite of many in the House was the Governor of Virginia Richard Bland Lee of the Old Dominion Party (an SNA affiliate). The Commonwealth Chartist Party would run Peter Early the Governor of Georgia, while the Commonwealth Manifest Destiny Party would run Edward Lloyd Governor of the State of Maryland. Richard Bland Lee would win on the first ballot with 38 votes, Early would come in second with 20 votes and Lloyd would come in third with 9 votes. Becoming the Third Chancellor of the Commonwealth of American States and the second Chancellor for both the SNA and the from the State of Virginia.

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Chancellor Richard Bland Lee (SNA/VA)



 
Before I post the next chapter I need to make a disclaimer I do not endorse the practice of slavery in any from no do I endorse the use of the science of Eugenics in any form. I also do not endorse the Capitalistic system as it is a system that brings out the worse parts of human nature. But Slavery is a part of the history of our country and as much as I have wanted to write it out of this story with the pod I used it cannot be done; the route I have decided to take in the next chapter and a underlining theme for parts of the Commonwealth's story is much more a rebuke of capitalism than any thing to do with race.
 
The Commonwealth of American States 1808-1820 Part II
Boom and Bust; Capitalism and Eugenics .

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. Thomas Sowell

The decade of the 1810’s is a period of booms and bust where the states of the Commonwealth are concerned. For the Deep South States this period is an ever increasing boom as cotton continues its rise as the cash crop of all cash crop in the American South. The economies of the states of South Carolina, Florida and Georgia start to gear their economy towards the production of cotton. Even with the introduction of the cotton gin back in 1797 the growing and harvesting of cotton is still hard labor intensive work which lead to slavery starting its great revival during the 1800’s and 1810’s. By the 1810’s South Carolina and Georgia owned Colonies in Africa which allowed them to get around the international ban on the slave trade.

Meanwhile the Upper South States began to enter the early stages of the industrial Revolution as they built foundries and textile mills across the Piedmont regions of Virginia and North Carolina, as well as the hilly country in central Georgia. But the planters in these areas who grew tobacco watch their profits shrink as their cash crop loped from one bust to the next. It was on one of these tobacco plantations in Prince Edward County Virginia where a planter name Michael Pryor(2) read a book called The Grand Works of God’s Nature by Jean-Baptiste Robinet (1) in this book Robinet who had spent the better part of his life studying the way that animals existed in the natural world developed the idea of evolution though selective breeding. Robinet Argued that god’s design for life was that the most intelligent or fittest are the members of the species that reproduce so that the weaker elements get cut out of the gene pool. Robinet also goes into how humans have proven this theory since the beginning of agriculture and animal husbandry by breeding positive traits into livestock and weeding out negative traits.

Now Pryor came up with the idea to apply this theory to his slaves, he had noted how hostile fresh slaves brought over from Africa could be, wouldn’t it be better to breed a better slave here in America a stronger but more docile slave. Between 1812 and 1812 Pryor and about three other tobacco planters in Prince Edward and Charlotte Counties will begin the great breeding experiment to see if humans can be domesticated like the other beast of burden. Pryor and company start with two breeding types strong masculine males with submissive females or strong willed females with submissive males. This project was slow to get going because of the time it take for human development, it would not be till the 1830’s that Pryor and his sons would see the true results of their work, and start to reap the benefit by the 1860’s Pryor’s domesticated slaves had made his family one of the 5 wealthiest families in Virginia.

(1) Real person OTL however in TTL he is much more influential and becomes this worlds Charles Darwin 40 years earlier.
(2) a completely fictional character please don't go hunting though Prince Edward County looking for this guy's living family he doesn't really exist.
 
What is the demonym for the federal republic of america and the commonwealth of american states?
ok 1st off let me say thank you for my new word for the day demonym. I'm planning on doing an immigration up date when I get to the 1840's. At this point the Demographics of the FRA, CAS, and CRNE are very much still of British ancestry. Historically Immigration to America didn't kick off till the 1840's. In this time Europe is actually much more stable True Europe had the Troubles back in the early 1800's, but even they really didn't come close to the disruption caused by our time line's French Revolution. But at this moment much like otl USA They are 75% British Ancestry, exept the african slaves in the south. exeption to this rule would be the southern states that have African colonies, as they no have large populations of free native africans that aren't citizens and are kinda just there doing their own thing for now.
 
What is the demonym for the federal republic of america and the commonwealth of american states?

That's a good question, Federals makes sense for citizens of The Federal Republic, maybe even Republicans. For the C.A.S I have no clue, Commonweathian doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
 
That's a good question, Federals makes sense for citizens of The Federal Republic, maybe even Republicans. For the C.A.S I have no clue, Commonweathian doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
Ok so I'm guessing that I still missed the bus with my last answer thanks to @Dante for his post after which I think I get what yall are asking. Last week and weekend was a long one at work, I"m still recovering.
So confusingly enough like in most Southern Victory timelines, if you were to ask Blow Joe or Sally Sings on the Streets of Boston (CRNE), or New York (FRA) They are both Americans. now in the south its a more complicated. If you were to ask Blow Joe or Sally Sings in Richmond, Norfolk, Lexington (otl Ky) they are Virginian's then Americans, if they are in Charleston they are South Carolinian, Savannah, they are Georgians ect. Now if they are compairing them selves to say someone form Britain they are American.

From the out side point of view, Citizens of the FRA are Federals, Citizens of the CRNE are New Englanders, or Royalist to the other American countries. and members of the Commonwealth are called Southerners as a collective

Also FRA and Commonwealth citizens and press put an o in the abbreviation for the CRNE so its CRoNE and is represented by a haggered hunched old woman in political cartoons
 
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I love the idea of N.E. being portrayed as an old crone, it really shows the disdain the other Americans have for their backsliding neighbors.
 
@Dante your right Post Civil War New England is the at least severely disliked and worst hated. The fact that as we will see the CRNE develope it will start to see it's destiny as being the country to reunite North America under it's version of the Union Flag and the good King of England. This will cause the British a headache every now and then as New England also will come to covet British North America.
 
The British Empire 1810-1820
Britain
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King George IV Queen Frederica Louise Wilhelmina Orange-Nassau
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Following the turbulent first decade Britain looked forward to the second decade of the 19th Century for some piece and quite as it worked on expanding its empire in India, and growing the population of British North America.

The Colonization of British North America:

The prison colony act of 1809 had established the settlement of George Town on Green Bay at the mouth of the Fox River emptied into Green Bay of Lake Michigan. By the end of 1819 George Town on Green Bay would be the largest settlement in the Western half of the Michigan Territory with a population of just under 65,000 men women and children. It was during this period that the British started to exploit the vast Iron Deposits of the Superior Peninsular. In 1820 the city would change its name from George Town on Greek Bay to just Green Bay. The Act also embellished a second Penal Colony of Red Rock (otl Des Moines) in Missouri Territory on the Red Stone River. Red Rock was a rough and tumble place that lacked the resources that allowed Green Bay to thrive. The town would hold on and by 1820 the original 1,500 settlers had expanded to just under 16,000 men women and children.

The North American Settlement Act was passed in 1810. This act opened up British Upper Canada, Michigan and Missouri to homesteading for any people as long as the settled on an improved the land. The British admitted that they had stolen the concept form a similar law that the French had put in place in their New Aquitaine colony in South America. Both of these would have their desired effect by the 1830 Census British North America had reached at total population of 3,175,560 people not counting the Crown Republic of New England. Of these people 595,399 lived in Upper Canada, 996,856 lived in the Michigan Territory, 496,550 lived in Lower Canada, 277,000 in Nova Scotia, 194,000 in New Brunswick and 62,000 in Prince Edward Island, and 553,755 people living in the Missouri Territory.

The 1810’s would see Britain welcome New England back into the Empire as the Crown Republic of New England with the signing of the Treaty of Reunion on August 21, 1818. For King George IV this seem to justify his father claim that the Colonies would come back and while he held little hope that the others would return to the empire at least some of them had.

Lastly in 1819 the Parliament approved the Caribbean defense acts; these acts provided money to enlarge the number of ships kept in the Caribbean Station, up to 18 ships of the line and supporting frigates, and smaller ships. It also provided money to improve the port facilities at Kingston Jamaica and English Harbor on Antigua as well as their defenses. These actions were taken in response to the Commonwealth of American States Invasion and annexation of the Island of Hispaniola. The acts would also create a garrison of Island Puerto Rico which became a British protectorate following the fall of the Kingdom of Cuba and Hispaniola

Australia

There was a consequence to Britain’s focus on the American Colonies this was the halt of the settlement of Australia. In 1810 Britain had two colonies on Australia New Hanover in Western Australia and Kingsland colony in the Southeast of the small continent. The lack of apparent British interest in the two small colonies the very populous Irish settlement on New South Ireland would begin to encroach upon British Australia establishing an Irish Settlement on the Island of Tasmania on June 7, 1815.

Closer to Home

George IV had to admit that his son would make a fine king one day, the boy was well educated and took to books in a way he never had. The prince was well liked by the people and took to politics like a fish to water. The prince would spend every free either in the halls of Parliament or in his father’s office learning every details of the inner workings of government. George’s problem was that this was his second son Richard the Duke of York. Not his eldest, the Prince of Wales.

Henry Prince of Wales was a mixed bag to George IV. He was proud of the military prowess that his eldest had. Henry it was said was Lionheart reborn. He had entered army at the age of 15 and now had actually earned the rank of Brigadier General by his own merits. However, while the Henry was excelling in his military career with the Army he had yet to show any interest in learning how to be king when the time came. In Truth Henry had absolutely no taste for politics, court life or becoming king and the bothers often shared how they wished they could switch places.

On March 20, 1816 Henry would marry Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia. This match was viewed as a way to ease the tensions between Imperial Russia and Great Britain who was starting to view Russia as one more competitor in the Race for Asia, and a threat to East India Company’s rule in Northwestern India. The Anna fell in love with the dashing English Prince and at least at the start the marriage was a happy and on May 7, 1817 Anna would give birth to a healthy baby girl who was named Eleanor Augusta Duchess of Cambridge. Who would be followed by her sister Anna Elizabeth Duchess of Sussex born two years later on November 12, 1819. That year would also see Prince Richard the Duke of York marry Princess Sophie of Sweden on October 10, 1819.

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Henry Prince of Wales


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Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia bride to Henry Prince of Wales

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Prince Richard Duke of York

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Princes Sofia of Sweden Wife to Prince Richard Duke of York

 
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France 1810-1820
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June 12, 1800 in an odd occurrence for European Royalty at this time Louis Joseph Xavier François de France (1) the Dauphin of France would marry his long time friend and companion Maria Luisa the Daughter of the deposed Charles IV of Spain who had been living in Paris since the Spanish monarchy fell. Louis and Maria had be come friends since she along with her mother and sisters fled to Paris from Madrid. This marriage would see the Bourbon dynasty welcome a new generation into the family, as Maria would give birth to the couples first born a son named Charles Louis on October 9, 1803, then their second son Francis Xavier on July 30,1805, followed by three princesses Christine Marie on June 12, 1807, Lorraine Delisle born on December 20, 1810, and Marie Alyssa born on January 12, 1812, and lastly a son Henri Louis born on September 21, 1815.


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Maria Luisa with her first two children Charles Louis and Francis Xavier

For France the decade of the 1810’s would be a the decade that it remerged from the financial, military, and governmental reforms that had undergone during the 1790’s and the first decade of the 1800’s. The French India Company would challenged its British and Dutch counter parts as all three sought to control as much of India as possible. This would end up with the French Controlling the South Eastern area of India, the British the Western parts of India and the Dutch the North Eastern and Bengal areas. In 1816 France would play a small part in the Italian-Turkish War by occupying Algiers,(2) This would be followed by a full annexation of Algiers into France’s ever growing colonial Empire, On July 7, 1818 after two years of occupation.

France’s major colonial project during the 1810’s and 1820’s too for that matter was the settlement of its New Aquitaine Colony which it had gained following the fall of the Spanish Empire. France would start this process in 1809 with the Colonial Land Act. This act opened up all unimproved or abandoned land to homesteading for free as long as they lived on and improved the land. This would see a flood of second, third and fourth sons from across the spectrum of the French Society (3) move to the Rio del Plata basin, bringing the French population up to 250,000 by the 1820 census.

During the Restuctering time France had kept a low key in the colonial areas of the world; yet its big success during that time was its alliance with the new Rattanakosin Kingdom and its King Rama II. In exchange for trading treaties the French had helped Rama II modernize the Rattanan Army with modern European weapons even training gun and cannon makers for the new Bangkok Arsenal that Rama II founded. With the help of the French Rama II would go on to conquer Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. The Rattanakosin Kingdom would annex Laos, and Cambodia while France would install a puppet state in Vietnam. Rama II would use these victories to establish the Siamese Empire on June 17, 1812. The man who had engineered all of this was Admiral Maximilien Delorme.

By 1814 Delorme was ready for his next feet. On October 21, 1815 Admiral Maximilien Delorme would sail his squadron of 16 ships into Tokyo Bay and convince the Japanese Shogunate Government to sign the Rosebud Treaty officially opening up Japan to trade with France and France alone. Under the treaty Japan was only to allow French merchants into the country; Japan was not make any deals with any other nations without the consent of the commander of the French mission in Japan. The French would be allowed to station a garrison of up to 40,000 men in Japan and the French were given the town of Atami and the peninsular south of the city as a French colony. The Rosebud Treaty would be a source of ill feelings between the Japanese and their new French Masters for decades to come.

The biggest thing to happen to France in the 1810’s occurred on June 12, 1818 King Louis XVI suffered a heart attack and died, the old king was 64 years old and had successfully led France on the journey from absolute monarchy to a Constitutional Monarchy. The Dauphin would King from his father as the court officials proclaimed "Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi" (the king is dead, long live the king) but would not be crowned for three months as perpetrations were made. On September 21, 1818 in the Notre-Dame de Reims Louis Joseph Xavier François de France would be crowned by the Grace of God and by the constitutional law of the State, King of France and of Navarre, Most Christian Majesty King Louis XVII at the same time beside Louis Maria was crowned Queen of France, and Charles Louis became the new Dauphin.

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Louis XVII at his coronation at Reims

As the 1810’s came to an end the Kingdom of France was back on the world stage and it old rivalry with Britain was stirring once more. France now had a young king and both he and the French people were ready to show the British that France was still a great power.
 
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(1) TTL he doesn't die in 1789. His younger brother OTL Louis XVII is also still alive.
(2) This is the big event for Europe it will be covered in the Italy chapter.
(3) No French Revolution means no changes to the inherence laws means French don't stop having large families means France population won't stagnant like OTL.
 
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