The Federalist revolution: 1812-1815

The Federalists, an American political party that believed in a strong national government, promotion of economic growth, and friendship with England opposed the rule of President James Madison, the democratic-republican party, and what they considered to be the rule of a Virginian aristocracy. Following the close election of 1812, the closest to date, and the earlier declaration of war against England the Federalist openly revolted in 1812. Led by DeWitt Clinton they quickly took control of Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and New England. They had all supported Clinton in the election.
James Madison, the last Democratic -Republican president, attempted to crush the Federalists. However, the US Army lost battles at Fort Detroit, Lake Erie, Allentown and Monmouth. British allies had won fort Detroit and Lake Erie while Allentown and Monmouth New Jersey were victories of the federalist army, a Coalition of State militias.
The revolt spread to other parts of the United States, most notably the southwest.When the federalists decisively defeated the U.S. at the Battle of Potomac and 1815 President Madison fled the Richmond Virginia where he was murdered. President Dewitt Clinton of the United States was declared President of the United States in New York,New York the new capital.
This is only a brief synopsis of the Revolution and there is much that I did not cover. I'm sure many of you wonder why I left out the famous speech that President Clinton delivered to the new Congress as he was urging them to declare war. "If the War Hawks want war then by God I will give them a war. Many will also wonder why I didn't mention the three regiments of free men that served so valiantly at the Potomac. There was too much to cover.
I could write a book about how General Harrison abandoned the frontier to the British and Tecumseh to March his army to New Jersey during the early, Frozen, months of 1813, only to be killed as the battle of Allentown began. I believe it was Whitman who asked "How many heroes were left on the frozen forest floor, how many gone for evermore?" Another book could be written about the exploits of commodore Perry. With only a handful of ships he harassed British shipping until they cornered and defeated him at Put-in-Bay in what is called the Battle of Lake Erie.
I also did not discuss how the revolution or the revolts in the south-west would affect what has become our great nation of today. I did not discuss its effects on slavery or the end of slavery. Nor did I discuss the resulting rise of industry in the South or the war against slavery in in the Jackson Republic. I will leave those discussions for historians more learned than myself.
 
There certainly was IOTL a great deal of
unhappiness in NE, NJ, & NY with the Vir-
gina dominated Republicans in 1812- but
it didn't flare into open revolt(the Hartford
Convention, which did @ least consider secession, didn't even convene until 1815).
What additional factors ITTL do you see
making the difference & igniting a civil war?

P.S. Just one more question- what are the
British doing in the meantime?
 
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I didn't consider any other factors but IOTL but I did toy with the idea of Clinton and his supporters, politicians and influential businessmen, making a secret deal with the British and of the press stoking the fires. As for the British, they didn't want the war anyways. They were busy with France and had decided on a defensive war in North America. I figured that, not needing to worry about an invasion from the east, they would focus on the northwest. I did wonder if Canadian militia would join the Federalist cause but decided it wasn't in their interest.
 
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