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Alexander Hamilton is killed at the Battle of Trenton. The more libertarian Albert Gallatin becomes the first Secretary of the Treasury. Without Hamilton's Federalist Papers to defend the Constitution or his strong economic policy to knit the nation, the United States breaks up when New York refuses to ratify the Constitution in 1787. In 2004, only five of the original states remain in the USA and eight (sic) other American republics checker the continent (but only seven are listed in the book).
Could a single extra death lead to the balkanization of what is OTL USA?
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