I am thinking of doing a timeline of What if hte Constitutional Convention failed in 1787 and America remained un-unified for almost a century? Other have the right idea of saying that it would unify after seeing Italy and Germany do it. Here is the basic background info, I want the timeline itself to start in 1863 after America seeing Italy and Germany unify in 1861 and 1862 respectively.
*1787 Constitutional Convention fails
*1796, Confederation Congress meets for last time. Each state is independent.
*1796-1798 Massachusetts and Virginia fight a war over land claims in the Northwest Territory. It ends in a stalemate and the State of Washington is formed in 1799 out of the Territory with its capital at Cincinnati.
*1807 Because Napoleon did not send troops to the New World as he felt there was no threat among the many states, the troops are used to launch a second invasion of Egypt, which is as successful as the first one.
*1812 Napoleon invades Russia with more troops as he wants to restore the peoples faith in him after the Egyptian fiasco, he has 550,000 troops. This results in him being more foolish and consequently, only 15,000 return to France and Germany after marching across Russia again in the winter. He stays on Elba, guarded by the British fleet and dies in 1823.
*Louisiana is given to France again after the defeat of Napoleon and many Imperials and Republicans are exiled there. However, this backfires when they rebel in 1827 and form the Louisiana Republic.
*Mexico is successful in the 1820 Revolution and gets all the land it had before the Mexican-American War.
*The Second Republic in France in instituted but Napoleon III does not launch his coup and the Republic is moderately stable.
*Italy forms out of the Kingdom of the Two Scicilies in 1861. In a move to get the North to go with the new Italy, the capital is at Florence.
*Prussia is more successful in the Six Weeks War and occupies Austria as well as Southern Germany in 1862 to form Germany.
*1863 The timeline begins.
Any suggestions?