North American P.O.D.s

Some PODs:

Norse colonization stronger in Greenland.

Different Indian tribes surviving the aftermath of the plagues and the introduction of the horse to deal with Europeans than OTL.

Little Turtle winning his war against the US.

US defeat and breakup after a War of 1812 loss.

Tecumseh wins his war.

Andrew Jackson wins against John Q. Adams

William Harrison lives to finish out his term.

Aaron Burr succeeds in his conspiracy.

US adopts a much more brutal Indian War policy than the OTL one (which was nasty enough, in any case).

Mexico modernizes its army before the Mexican-American war.

More Muslims or Hindus immigrate to the US, fewer Europeans do.

Canada expands into some OTL US territory (perhaps a different Maine border and the Oregon territory kept, or maybe the northern boundary of Louisiana is decided differently).

Haitian Revolution fails.

Mexico's southern boundary extends further south than OTL.

Mormons remain in New York instead of being expelled to Utah.

No Mexican Revolution in 1911.

No Zapatista Revolution.

Quebec never annexed (for you, Valamyr ;) ).

US is mostly Catholic with a scattered Protestant group that later becomes the largest single bloc, OTL in reverse.

Canada is mostly Catholic (outside of Quebec.)

Mexico is Protestant.

Mexican Revolution delayed by 20 years.

American Revolutionary War without France.

American Revolutionary War with more European powers involved.

Longer lived Iturbide Mexican Empire.

Longer lived Habsburg Mexican Empire.

US adopts a monarchy.

Canada becomes a strict Republic.

All English NA colonies revolt in 1776, Canada, the Eastern seaboard, and the Caribbean colonies.

CSA includes the entire Slave South, instead of only part of it.

Earlier Union victory in Civil War.

Later Union victory in Civil War.

Different provinces in Canada.

Different states in the US.

Different states in Mexico.

George Washington is never tricked into signing the declaration that sparked the Seven Year's War.

US conquers Canada in 1776.

US conquers Canada in 1812.

Constitution defeated in the US.

Spanish defeat the Mexican Revolution.

Napoleon doesn't sell Louisiana.

Russia expands more into North America.

North America named North Columbia.

North America never settled by Indians.

North America never separates from the rest of Laurentia by the time humans evolve.

More megafauna survive the Decimation caused by the Indians.

More powerful states in North America besides the Aztecs, Maya, and Mississippians prior to 1492.

More dense population in NA prior to 1492 (even the highest estimates place much fewer people in NA north of the Mexica than south of them.)

Neanderthals reach NA before modern humans, and then are decimated by them as happened in Europe.

Australians settle the New World instead of Siberians.

Ainu settle New World instead of Siberians.

More contact prior to 1492 than existed.

Stronger Native American presence north of Mexico.

Homo erectus reaches NA before Neanderthals, both of which die before humankind.
 
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