The Federal States of New England

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Map of the world in 1860

Current year: 1861

In 1843, the New England Revolution was started. The rebels were able to capture New York City and made it all the way to Detroit. In 1847, the Federal States of New England was given independence under President Daniel Webster. Webster died in 1852. The current President is Henry Gardner.

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Current flag of New England

Inspired by the New England Revolutions, The states of Italy unite and declare war on Austria with French support.
Texas was eventually recognized by Mexico after the Texan-Mexican War. Sam Houston is still the President, but his health is failing.
With the absence of the northern states, John C. Breckinridge was able to win the recent election.
 
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Why exactly did New York, New Jersey, Northern Pennsylvania, Northern Ohio and about 3/4s of Michigan go with New England?

And how exactly did this revolution in 1843 happen?
 
New York isn't New England.

Why exactly did New York, New Jersey, Northern Pennsylvania, Northern Ohio and about 3/4s of Michigan go with New England?

Well, all those areas but New York City were settled by Yankees and even to this day have cultural differences from downstate. This was even more pronounced in the early and mid 19th century. I'm surprised if he's going for culturally Yankee areas he didn't add northern Indiana and Illinois, western Michigan, and Wisconsin, Minnesota, and eastern/northern Iowa.

It's exactly like how Deep Southerners spread west from South Carolina into the lowlands of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, northern Florida, etc while upstate areas were settled by the Appalachian residents/Scotch-Irish and north English descendants. In the northern states' case, the northern thirds of Pennsylvania-to-Iowa were settled by New England while Delaware Valley descendants settled the middle portions.

EDIT: adding in information.
 
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Why didn't ya use the earlier and often-used 1810s PoD?
I've never seen it

Welcome!

Why did New England break away?
And how exactly did this revolution in 1843 happen?
1. The slavery issue
2. They have their own national identity
3. The British secretly helped start some rebellions in hope of New England joining them

New York isn't New England.
Why exactly did New York, New Jersey, Northern Pennsylvania, Northern Ohio and about 3/4s of Michigan go with New England?
The British in 1841 sent people down to New York City and Detroit to help fuel rebellion. The New Yorkers didn't care too much what nation they were part of as long as they were independent.
 
How did New England not claim any of the US's western territory? Yankees were migrating West just as fast as Southerners, if not faster, at this time.
 
Well, all those areas but New York City were settled by Yankees and even to this day have cultural differences from downstate. This was even more pronounced in the early and mid 19th century. I'm surprised if he's going for culturally Yankee areas he didn't add northern Indiana and Illinois, western Michigan, and Wisconsin, Minnesota, and eastern/northern Iowa.

It's exactly like how Deep Southerners spread west from South Carolina into the lowlands of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, northern Florida, etc while upstate areas were settled by the Appalachian residents/Scotch-Irish and north English descendants. In the northern states' case, the northern thirds of Pennsylvania-to-Iowa were settled by New England while Delaware Valley descendants settled the middle portions.

EDIT: adding in information.

This is the kind of thing that is only sort of true. Yes, Yankees were an important part of the settlement mix in a swath of country stretching to the northern tributaries of the Mississippi, but they were hardly the only people settling there and there were areas where they weren't even the dominant source. NYC itself had heavily settled the Hudson valley, and Yankees only really represented anything like majorities in certain parts of Western upstate New York.

Likewise, the Yankee settles in Northeastern Pennsylvania were quickly swamped points further west by others.

The whole thing is faintly ridiculous. That's just not how this works.
 
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