Timeline of The Domination of Draka, The United States and other nations(1651-2004)
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Yeah, its a really nice timeline but 17 million! Come on, did the South then even have 17 million people? From the way you told it, 5 million would be the max with about 2-3 million being more reasonable.
Also, I don't know Mexican states all to well and the Draken conquests are a bit fuzzy so a map would really clear things up.
Also, I don't know Mexican states all to well and the Draken conquests are a bit fuzzy so a map would really clear things up.
Straha
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Part 4: Two Empires Rising(revised)
1845-Brazil conquers surinam, guyana and cayenne.
-Ceylon taken by british and liberated from Drakans. The locals revolt when they hear of british troops coming.
1846-the USA begins to raise Indian regiments again to fight in the harsh southwest deserts against other Indian tribes.
-Large-scale immigration of Irish and Germans begins in America.
- Southern attempts to sponsor anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish (language) motions in congress fail. Some Irish immigrants moving away from the Democratic party for its perceived anti-catholic positions. The Know-Nothing Party in the US is developing as a serious party.
1847-Congress passes the Negro and Chinese Homestead Act that gives free land to freed slaves and Chinese railroad workers to get them out of the cities where their presence causes animosity.
-Taumalipas(slave),Coahuila(slave), Cape breton(free) and Labrador(free) given statehood.
1848-Year of revolutions. Europe is thrown into temporary chaos but order is restored. Democratic revolutions sweep latin america the sucess of these revolutions cause a massive flood of immigration to latin america. -The first black representatives are inaugerated into the house from Bermuda,Napoleona,Jamaica, Bahamas and Haiti.
-founding of Deseret terretory by various immigrants looking west for a new life. no rise of Mormons in the US, as Smith is sidetracked into abolitionism. The society of this world's Utah will look more like OTL's nevada than Utah.
-a meetign between the brazillian ambassador and the american ambassador leads to certain pond flower being brought into the USA decades earleir than OTL. The water hyacinth first spreads in florida and Mexico but eventually raches california by the time of the slaver exodus.
-Coahuila, nuevo leon and taumalipas begin 10 year compensated emancipation programs. These programs include resettling the slaves in empty lands in the states.
1849-Drakan free female suffrage granted, voluntary enlistment of female Citizens for non-combat positions, Women's Military Auxiliary disbanded. F.J. Gatling settles in Diskarapur, develops improved seed drills and later first practical machine gun by using multiple barrels. First transcontinental railway between Shahnapur and Luanda (capital of Angola). Exploitation of
Katanga copper begins (present-day Lubumbashi in Democratic Republic of the Congo) as Drakans enter the Kongo basin in greater numbers.
-Elmira Naldorssen, an anthropologist and philosopher in the Education Directorate, proposes a state religion for the FRD. It has modified Hinduism for serfs, with a caste system and simplified pantheon, emphasis on karma, and advancement in this life and reincarnations only through proper behavior. The Citizens are offered a modified Christian theology, with emphasis on
proper service to the state (in the person of jesus) and gaining glory in battle as well as support for slavery. The Hindu portion for serfs is heavily encouraged by the Brotherhood of the Lash to ease serf control,
-Captain Claude Etienne Minié of France refines the Nicholson ball and it gains worldwide acceptance.
Austrians try unmanned paper balloons to drop 30-pound fused bombs on the Venetians. Little damage is done.
1850–60- Continuing difficulties in settlement of central Africa, despite great research efforts, and the social drive to ownership of plantations, combine to support various Drakan military expeditions and adventures in the rest of Africa. FRD surrounds central Africa and conquers Sudan and the outer reaches of Ethiopia. Incidents involving Spanish and Portuguese holdings within reach are condemned as adventurism by eager young prospective landholders, apologized for profusely, and paid for handsomely in reparation or acquisition. Portugal sells off all remaining African possessions to the FRD, and Spain does much the same.
-Large numbers of missionaries from the U.S. come to Mexico to spread the Christian faith among the Native Americans. Although some are Protestant, drawing the ire of the local Catholic community, many Catholics are encouraged by the U.S. government to convert them.
-beginning of cotton depression in the slave states south of the rio grande as poor harvests and the boll weevil lead to more landowners opting for taking the compensated emancipation route.
1850-1858-the USA annexes leeward antilles,OTL's pacific terretories that gained independence IOTL,haiti,santo domingo, melanesia,the phillipines,Cuba,hawai,guam,polynesia,samoa,windward antilles,the marianas,puerto rico and micronesia.
-Tropical fruits become widspread as plants from all over the world begin to be cultivated in the tropical and subtropical areas of the united states and Draka.
-Several of the larger Draka cities installed mains systems delivering metered compressed air via understreet tubes
-To help with the conquests of the area the American governemnt offers veterans of the ongoing taiping rebellion in china a home in the USA and being able to bring thier families to homestead in the west if they join the US army. By decade's end the union army has 250,000+ chinese soldiers in the army. due to the lower white population of the west there is less animosity and chinese begin to homestead in the west once their year of service is up. As a further incentive, the federal governemtn forces the western terretories to remove laws forbidding chinese to own land.
1851-Perry opens japan as OTL
-Beginning of mexican influences on the catholic church as bishops from former mexico being conferring with their conhorts of
the rest of the USA.
- Eastern Shore counties(WORCESTER,TALBOT,SOMERSET,QUEEN ANNES, KENT, DORCHESTER,CECIL,Northhampton,Accomack and CAROLINE) split off into the state of Chesapeake as a compromise to the south for the senate. The other parts of the deal include admitting the western nonslave counties of virginia as the state of appalachia.
1852-the US government establsihes a Slave Worker's Emancipation bill. The Government will buy slaves from their owners, and set them to work on internal improvements. Afterwards, they shall be given a homestead in either haiti, central america, the southern terretories of former mexico and the free terretories. Republicans support it because of its lessening of Slavery and dispersing the black population, while Democrats support it because it helps to partially resolve the issue of slavery in a favorable manner.
-Panama railroad is finished and becomes the first interoceanic railroad. This allows a more speedy path from the Atlantic to the Pacific
1855-Britain begins to deport "trouble makers and criminals" to Australia , but the British subjects already there threaten armed resistance to this policy. Popular opinion prohibits mass executions, so Great Britain coaxes the USA into signing the Halifax Accords.Britain may deport a number of persons to the United States over a period of twenty years. The total number of which is not
to exceed 2,500,000
The said persons may be from any region of the British Empire regardless of race, religion, or political following.
The U.S. may choose the ports of entry for these persons.
The U.S. government is to provide each male adult with $350 ($150 of which will be provided by her majesties government and $50 of which will be provided by the British Deportation Society) and or the option to purchase up to 50 acres of land at a price not to exceed 1.50/acre.
The U.S. government may reject one person for every ten due to poor health or criminal record.
1856- New terretories of USA organized as terretories and annexed.
- Immediate Heavy Southern investment and settlement, secure it for the South as a productive state. Cuba becomes unique among southern states for letting free blacks and other nonwhites vote.
-The first boatload of British deportees arrives in New York. Philadelphia, Boston, and Portland are also chosen as official ports of entry for all deportees.
-Kansas Civil War ends was Slave faction retreats (many going South or to Cuba). Kansas petitions for admission as free state.
1857-A massive wave of immigration begins into the USA, because along with the British deportees, hundreds of thousands of Germans and Irish flee to America.
-The US Government (with funds from a higher tarriff) will voluntarily purchase slaves and resettle them in Haiti, southern mexican terretories, central america and in the far northwest. Free black leaders protest (Frederick Douglas makes his famous NYC "Here I stand Speech") but by years end the Government is buying slaves.
-The severe depression in cotton prices (world wide glut) has produced a large surplus of slaves. Many Southern plantation owners (now the basis of the Whig Party) are saved from bankruptcy only by Federal Purchases. During the first full year almost 200,000 slaves (at an average of $500 per slave) are purchased.
-Cuba(slave) and Belize(free) recieve statehood.
1858- British Crown assumes all governmental responsibilities and administrative functions held by the East India Company, in the wake of the Sepoy Mutiny. The British establish Council of Rajahs as an advisory body to the Viceroy to avoid losing "the jewel in the Crown.
-Coahuila, nuevo leon and taumalipas abolish slavery. These states are merely a few years ahead of the national trend against slavery.
-Economic crash destroys Southern Economy.
1859-John Brown�s raid occurs, but this time, the casualties are greater due to the presence of eight Mexican followers of the radical abolitionist. Still, the attackers are defeated by Colonel Robert E. Lee, recently reassigned from a successful tour of duty in Mexico as an assistant military administrator for Mexico City.
-The paraguayan government begins major reforms in its military and other areas. A poicy of encouraging industrialization and encouraging immigration is begun. Conscription is established.
1858–63: The Slaver Exodus. So far, the Great Compromise whereby
"slave" and "free" states are admitted in equal proportion has held for almost 40 years, but it's rapidly become untenable for the future. The free states are more heavily populated with voters than the slave states, so the Senate and House are usually at odds. To continue the compromise would force Central america and Mexico into revolt if they became slave states. The alternative has denied several western territories statehood, in some cases for decades. So far, the solution has been to keep territories from becoming free states until paired with a new slave state, but that is starting to wear on everyone. When militia units exchange shots across state lines in several locations, the Army is ordered to maintain order impartially and all the governors are ordered by Congress to demobilize. It nearly becomes a civil war, but everyone is too evenly matched in arms and training to see a clear advantage in fighting, at least for the moment. The solution comes in the form of two transcontinental railroads to northern and southern Alta California Territory: sell part of the right-of-way to the railroad companies, some to settlers, and then compensate the slave owners and free the slaves. The gold and silver in Alta California and Nevada are starting to tail off, but the prospects for opening up the west and Mexico, especially if statehood occurs, sounds good to almost everyone. Everyone, that is, except the die-hard slave owners. And into this breach creeps the Free Republic of Draka. The deal is proposed in late 1858, and the details emerge in 1859. First, the railroad property will be auctioned off, starting in 1860 with parcels at both ends, and continuing towards the middle as the railroad construction advances. Compensation will be paid in 1862, so that there is no partial solution — all the slave states will be emancipated at the same time. Getting news of this prospective windfall, Drakans begin circulating through the slave-owning planter aristocracy of the South, and offer new plantations and fresh slaves in Draka, if the slave owners will immigrate with their money. Abolitionists and bankers, fearing that the slave owners will remove a large amount of money from the country, and impoverish the US, put some additional conditions on the compensation. First, inspectors will rate the slaves during January 1862 for their ability to work, and give compensation accordingly, so mistreated slaves and infants won't count for much. Second, the compensation will not be all cash, but partially in "land bonds" redeemable for territory along the transcontinental railroads. (1/5 goes to the railroad companies at a very low price, 1/5 will be auctioned to settlers, 1/5 is for "land bonds", and the remaining 2/5 is for government use and Indian territories.) Third, if the slave owners leave the country they forfeit the land bonds to the freed slaves.What's unforeseen is that two kinds of investment companies are set up. One buys land out west long before the railroad reaches it, and sells it once the railroad arrives for a profit. The second type bets on being able to buy whole plantations cheaply, so the owners can flee to Draka with more liquid assets, and later sell parts of the plantation to the freed slaves, and make a profit from the land bonds too. These ruin the forfeiture scheme, and absorb a lot of available credit from the economy. Unrest caused by poor whites as the rich ones are leaving causes anarchy in the southern states for months. Manipulations by embezzlers, banks and the Draka nearly stop the transcontinental railroads and cause a financial panic outside the slave states. The Slaver Exodus produces a financially devastated USA and physically devastated southern states.
1860-The transcontinental railroad construction, already started in the state of Alta California and on the west bank of the Mississippi, is of worldwide interest. Investment companies are set up that speculate on the value of land being auctioned, and they have wild price swings on various pieces of news. Those who run plantations strictly as a business mostly plan to take the money and go into other business within the USA. A few even sell out early to other investment companies, which continue to manage the plantations while eagerly awaiting the government deadline for compensation (and ignoring the fact that they've just become corporate slave owners). But most, looking on a plantation as a family legacy, resent being forced out of their way of life, and would rather consider fighting than leaving the US for Draka. The politicians on both sides (especially those in slave states who aren't slave owners themselves) hail this as a great solution, but most of the people (for various reasons) disagree with spending all that money. But with a wedge driven between the poor whites of the slave states and the rich slave owners, the cards are stacked against the planter aristocracy. Once the first prominent families announce their intentions to sell out, the die is cast, and soon many are signing up to go to Draka as whole regions and clans. The problems will now be getting all that money out of the US. The FRD begins building a fleet of armed luxury steamers to carry the expected flood of immigrants from southern US ports in early 1862. Armed because of fears of piracy, or US or even British naval intervention, luxury because some passengers will be wealthy even by Drakan standards. These ships will also carry small detachments of Drakan soldiers and teachers, to attempt to train and teach the immigrants in the ways of their new home while on the way to Africa. The FRD follows the twists and turns of the compensation legislation with great interest. Their hired lawyers find ways to help immigrants maximize their booty. They induce greedy men of the "free" states into setting up investment companies that will buy out the plantations early at a discount, and then sell off the land to the freed slaves and the land bonds as well.
-the united states postal service establishes a savings account program.
1860–70- Germany united. Dominion of Australia unites Australia,indonesia and New Zealand; aborigines are legally protected from exploitation. Electric generators and lighting.
-Mosquito vector of malaria established at Shahnapur Institute of Tropical Medicine, and large-scale efforts to combat the tsetse fly in central Africa finally begin to achieve real success. Expansion of Drakan settlement northward begins to catch up with military conquests. Immigrants from the US slave states spread through the Drakan frontier and infuse a massive amount of wealth into the economy, catalyzing a massive expansion in the service and industrial sectors. Drakan dialect takes on a pronounced "southern" twang/drawl from the latest influx on top of the earlier Loyalists. FRD has the lead in high-pressure steam and air technology, including storage of compressed air in underground concrete tanks.
1861-Unrest rises among the poor whites of the slave states, as they see the top and bottom of southern society planning to get rewards while they will receive nothing. The most dangerous ones begin collecting weapons or subverting the local militia, and plan to kill the slave owners and/or the slaves during the transition period after January 1862. Several such plans are exposed, but southern governors refuse to act with unity. Abolitionists, representatives of investment companies and other "carpetbaggers" flood the slave states, pursuing their own agendas. Some abolitionists see opportunities to gain votes for northern political parties among the freed men, others are there to distribute guns or facilitate last-minute escapes (they're still slaves down there, even if slavery will end soon), and a few are humanitarians hoping to aid in the worst situations. The investment companies are there to sign contracts for land bonds. There are even a few fortune-seekers claiming to be long lost relatives of a planter, so they can get a share. The railroad companies don't have enough workers, and importing Filipino labor only works for the Pacific end of the tracks. Mexico turns out to be a good source of workers for hire, as some of the pre-war peasants turned post-war small farmers are willing to try something else. A few railroad company agents enter the mix in the southern states, offering to buy strong slaves and even whole families, and employ them as free men on the westbound track building effort. Those sold before January 1862, and the owners that can pack up and leave early, are the lucky ones. Interest rates begin to rise, as the banks notice a demand for loans to generate the cash to pay off slave owners now, or buy land on speculation. The large sums of money being thrown about give a giddy impression of high finance, but the industrial expansion of the early "robber barons" is being sidetracked. It takes special guarantees by the US Treasury to ensure that the railroad companies get the credit they need to keep building, as they won't show a good return until the lines meet. Towards the end of the year, slave inspection teams composed of Army engineers and hired accountants and former slave traders, begin spreading throughout the slave states so they can get the job done quickly in early 1862. This volatile mix of people in the slave states, and the wild swings in value of "railroad land", will soon explode.
-The major leglislation is the creation of Freeman and Peon Bureau (including a subsidized school system) in much of old Mexico. The Carpetbaggers in Mexico have effective control over most of central and Western Mexico.
1862-Although the slave inspection teams try to do their jobs properly, they are often forced to intervene in the tense situations on plantations. Soon, havoc reigns with poor whites in militia-like bands attacking plantations, the slave owners and inspection teams and freed slaves defending themselves, some freed slaves taking revenge, and the recently compensated slave owners leaving a vacuum as they depart for the nearest port with whatever they can carry. Roving bands of freed slaves, radical abolitionists, and poor whites all seem willing to chase down rich former slave owners, and in most cases are willing to fight each other too. The plantations, highways, rivers and railways of the slave states become the settings for numerous robberies, small battles and atrocities. Congress finally authorizes mobilization of militia from free states to enter the slave states to try to keep the peace, but even they get bogged down and heavily involved with only slight progress. Some drakan ships have to fight their way out of southern ports against angry mobs, and then defend against pirates sallying from parts unknown. While not a civil war, the unrest in the slave states is close to anarchy until the last departing slave owners are generally known to have left. All told, over 350,000 planters and family members leave for Draka, taking a vast amount of wealth and leaving tremendous bitterness and bloodshed behind. another 100,000 people leave for brazil and 50,000 more leave for other lands. By the 1930's century over 8 million people have left the USA for draka in a slow exodus from the south.The financial system of the rest of the USA teeters dangerously close to collapse. There is negative economic growth going on, and the credit needed to keep the railroads going while the investment companies wait is getting harder to come by. Extended deployment by northern militia units is also very unpopular at home, and hurting the economy even further. Martial law declared in Virginia and several other southern states during the Slaver Exodus. Minnesota admitted as a state, star in white bar .
-States of aguascalientes, mexico,Azlatan(OTl's mexican federal district), colima, Baja California Norte and baja california sur admitted as states to placate the mexicans(and make sure they dont dominate the house of represenatives by admitting alot of the bigger states)of big populated states). Mexico city in the state of Azlatan renamed to Tenochtitlan for a new flavor. Emergence of neo-aztec style of architecture in mexico.
- The Farmstead Act is distributing land to farmers in the West and Mexico. Few Rail Road grants are being made at the current time other than the transcontinental route.
-Gran Chaco war as Paraguay declares war on bolivia and argentina. Due to lopez's militarization and industrialization it takes several years but resistance is crushed, immigration begun and development begun. As part of the deal for remaining nuetral, urugay goes to brazil.
1845-Brazil conquers surinam, guyana and cayenne.
-Ceylon taken by british and liberated from Drakans. The locals revolt when they hear of british troops coming.
1846-the USA begins to raise Indian regiments again to fight in the harsh southwest deserts against other Indian tribes.
-Large-scale immigration of Irish and Germans begins in America.
- Southern attempts to sponsor anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish (language) motions in congress fail. Some Irish immigrants moving away from the Democratic party for its perceived anti-catholic positions. The Know-Nothing Party in the US is developing as a serious party.
1847-Congress passes the Negro and Chinese Homestead Act that gives free land to freed slaves and Chinese railroad workers to get them out of the cities where their presence causes animosity.
-Taumalipas(slave),Coahuila(slave), Cape breton(free) and Labrador(free) given statehood.
1848-Year of revolutions. Europe is thrown into temporary chaos but order is restored. Democratic revolutions sweep latin america the sucess of these revolutions cause a massive flood of immigration to latin america. -The first black representatives are inaugerated into the house from Bermuda,Napoleona,Jamaica, Bahamas and Haiti.
-founding of Deseret terretory by various immigrants looking west for a new life. no rise of Mormons in the US, as Smith is sidetracked into abolitionism. The society of this world's Utah will look more like OTL's nevada than Utah.
-a meetign between the brazillian ambassador and the american ambassador leads to certain pond flower being brought into the USA decades earleir than OTL. The water hyacinth first spreads in florida and Mexico but eventually raches california by the time of the slaver exodus.
-Coahuila, nuevo leon and taumalipas begin 10 year compensated emancipation programs. These programs include resettling the slaves in empty lands in the states.
1849-Drakan free female suffrage granted, voluntary enlistment of female Citizens for non-combat positions, Women's Military Auxiliary disbanded. F.J. Gatling settles in Diskarapur, develops improved seed drills and later first practical machine gun by using multiple barrels. First transcontinental railway between Shahnapur and Luanda (capital of Angola). Exploitation of
Katanga copper begins (present-day Lubumbashi in Democratic Republic of the Congo) as Drakans enter the Kongo basin in greater numbers.
-Elmira Naldorssen, an anthropologist and philosopher in the Education Directorate, proposes a state religion for the FRD. It has modified Hinduism for serfs, with a caste system and simplified pantheon, emphasis on karma, and advancement in this life and reincarnations only through proper behavior. The Citizens are offered a modified Christian theology, with emphasis on
proper service to the state (in the person of jesus) and gaining glory in battle as well as support for slavery. The Hindu portion for serfs is heavily encouraged by the Brotherhood of the Lash to ease serf control,
-Captain Claude Etienne Minié of France refines the Nicholson ball and it gains worldwide acceptance.
Austrians try unmanned paper balloons to drop 30-pound fused bombs on the Venetians. Little damage is done.
1850–60- Continuing difficulties in settlement of central Africa, despite great research efforts, and the social drive to ownership of plantations, combine to support various Drakan military expeditions and adventures in the rest of Africa. FRD surrounds central Africa and conquers Sudan and the outer reaches of Ethiopia. Incidents involving Spanish and Portuguese holdings within reach are condemned as adventurism by eager young prospective landholders, apologized for profusely, and paid for handsomely in reparation or acquisition. Portugal sells off all remaining African possessions to the FRD, and Spain does much the same.
-Large numbers of missionaries from the U.S. come to Mexico to spread the Christian faith among the Native Americans. Although some are Protestant, drawing the ire of the local Catholic community, many Catholics are encouraged by the U.S. government to convert them.
-beginning of cotton depression in the slave states south of the rio grande as poor harvests and the boll weevil lead to more landowners opting for taking the compensated emancipation route.
1850-1858-the USA annexes leeward antilles,OTL's pacific terretories that gained independence IOTL,haiti,santo domingo, melanesia,the phillipines,Cuba,hawai,guam,polynesia,samoa,windward antilles,the marianas,puerto rico and micronesia.
-Tropical fruits become widspread as plants from all over the world begin to be cultivated in the tropical and subtropical areas of the united states and Draka.
-Several of the larger Draka cities installed mains systems delivering metered compressed air via understreet tubes
-To help with the conquests of the area the American governemnt offers veterans of the ongoing taiping rebellion in china a home in the USA and being able to bring thier families to homestead in the west if they join the US army. By decade's end the union army has 250,000+ chinese soldiers in the army. due to the lower white population of the west there is less animosity and chinese begin to homestead in the west once their year of service is up. As a further incentive, the federal governemtn forces the western terretories to remove laws forbidding chinese to own land.
1851-Perry opens japan as OTL
-Beginning of mexican influences on the catholic church as bishops from former mexico being conferring with their conhorts of
the rest of the USA.
- Eastern Shore counties(WORCESTER,TALBOT,SOMERSET,QUEEN ANNES, KENT, DORCHESTER,CECIL,Northhampton,Accomack and CAROLINE) split off into the state of Chesapeake as a compromise to the south for the senate. The other parts of the deal include admitting the western nonslave counties of virginia as the state of appalachia.
1852-the US government establsihes a Slave Worker's Emancipation bill. The Government will buy slaves from their owners, and set them to work on internal improvements. Afterwards, they shall be given a homestead in either haiti, central america, the southern terretories of former mexico and the free terretories. Republicans support it because of its lessening of Slavery and dispersing the black population, while Democrats support it because it helps to partially resolve the issue of slavery in a favorable manner.
-Panama railroad is finished and becomes the first interoceanic railroad. This allows a more speedy path from the Atlantic to the Pacific
1855-Britain begins to deport "trouble makers and criminals" to Australia , but the British subjects already there threaten armed resistance to this policy. Popular opinion prohibits mass executions, so Great Britain coaxes the USA into signing the Halifax Accords.Britain may deport a number of persons to the United States over a period of twenty years. The total number of which is not
to exceed 2,500,000
The said persons may be from any region of the British Empire regardless of race, religion, or political following.
The U.S. may choose the ports of entry for these persons.
The U.S. government is to provide each male adult with $350 ($150 of which will be provided by her majesties government and $50 of which will be provided by the British Deportation Society) and or the option to purchase up to 50 acres of land at a price not to exceed 1.50/acre.
The U.S. government may reject one person for every ten due to poor health or criminal record.
1856- New terretories of USA organized as terretories and annexed.
- Immediate Heavy Southern investment and settlement, secure it for the South as a productive state. Cuba becomes unique among southern states for letting free blacks and other nonwhites vote.
-The first boatload of British deportees arrives in New York. Philadelphia, Boston, and Portland are also chosen as official ports of entry for all deportees.
-Kansas Civil War ends was Slave faction retreats (many going South or to Cuba). Kansas petitions for admission as free state.
1857-A massive wave of immigration begins into the USA, because along with the British deportees, hundreds of thousands of Germans and Irish flee to America.
-The US Government (with funds from a higher tarriff) will voluntarily purchase slaves and resettle them in Haiti, southern mexican terretories, central america and in the far northwest. Free black leaders protest (Frederick Douglas makes his famous NYC "Here I stand Speech") but by years end the Government is buying slaves.
-The severe depression in cotton prices (world wide glut) has produced a large surplus of slaves. Many Southern plantation owners (now the basis of the Whig Party) are saved from bankruptcy only by Federal Purchases. During the first full year almost 200,000 slaves (at an average of $500 per slave) are purchased.
-Cuba(slave) and Belize(free) recieve statehood.
1858- British Crown assumes all governmental responsibilities and administrative functions held by the East India Company, in the wake of the Sepoy Mutiny. The British establish Council of Rajahs as an advisory body to the Viceroy to avoid losing "the jewel in the Crown.
-Coahuila, nuevo leon and taumalipas abolish slavery. These states are merely a few years ahead of the national trend against slavery.
-Economic crash destroys Southern Economy.
1859-John Brown�s raid occurs, but this time, the casualties are greater due to the presence of eight Mexican followers of the radical abolitionist. Still, the attackers are defeated by Colonel Robert E. Lee, recently reassigned from a successful tour of duty in Mexico as an assistant military administrator for Mexico City.
-The paraguayan government begins major reforms in its military and other areas. A poicy of encouraging industrialization and encouraging immigration is begun. Conscription is established.
1858–63: The Slaver Exodus. So far, the Great Compromise whereby
"slave" and "free" states are admitted in equal proportion has held for almost 40 years, but it's rapidly become untenable for the future. The free states are more heavily populated with voters than the slave states, so the Senate and House are usually at odds. To continue the compromise would force Central america and Mexico into revolt if they became slave states. The alternative has denied several western territories statehood, in some cases for decades. So far, the solution has been to keep territories from becoming free states until paired with a new slave state, but that is starting to wear on everyone. When militia units exchange shots across state lines in several locations, the Army is ordered to maintain order impartially and all the governors are ordered by Congress to demobilize. It nearly becomes a civil war, but everyone is too evenly matched in arms and training to see a clear advantage in fighting, at least for the moment. The solution comes in the form of two transcontinental railroads to northern and southern Alta California Territory: sell part of the right-of-way to the railroad companies, some to settlers, and then compensate the slave owners and free the slaves. The gold and silver in Alta California and Nevada are starting to tail off, but the prospects for opening up the west and Mexico, especially if statehood occurs, sounds good to almost everyone. Everyone, that is, except the die-hard slave owners. And into this breach creeps the Free Republic of Draka. The deal is proposed in late 1858, and the details emerge in 1859. First, the railroad property will be auctioned off, starting in 1860 with parcels at both ends, and continuing towards the middle as the railroad construction advances. Compensation will be paid in 1862, so that there is no partial solution — all the slave states will be emancipated at the same time. Getting news of this prospective windfall, Drakans begin circulating through the slave-owning planter aristocracy of the South, and offer new plantations and fresh slaves in Draka, if the slave owners will immigrate with their money. Abolitionists and bankers, fearing that the slave owners will remove a large amount of money from the country, and impoverish the US, put some additional conditions on the compensation. First, inspectors will rate the slaves during January 1862 for their ability to work, and give compensation accordingly, so mistreated slaves and infants won't count for much. Second, the compensation will not be all cash, but partially in "land bonds" redeemable for territory along the transcontinental railroads. (1/5 goes to the railroad companies at a very low price, 1/5 will be auctioned to settlers, 1/5 is for "land bonds", and the remaining 2/5 is for government use and Indian territories.) Third, if the slave owners leave the country they forfeit the land bonds to the freed slaves.What's unforeseen is that two kinds of investment companies are set up. One buys land out west long before the railroad reaches it, and sells it once the railroad arrives for a profit. The second type bets on being able to buy whole plantations cheaply, so the owners can flee to Draka with more liquid assets, and later sell parts of the plantation to the freed slaves, and make a profit from the land bonds too. These ruin the forfeiture scheme, and absorb a lot of available credit from the economy. Unrest caused by poor whites as the rich ones are leaving causes anarchy in the southern states for months. Manipulations by embezzlers, banks and the Draka nearly stop the transcontinental railroads and cause a financial panic outside the slave states. The Slaver Exodus produces a financially devastated USA and physically devastated southern states.
1860-The transcontinental railroad construction, already started in the state of Alta California and on the west bank of the Mississippi, is of worldwide interest. Investment companies are set up that speculate on the value of land being auctioned, and they have wild price swings on various pieces of news. Those who run plantations strictly as a business mostly plan to take the money and go into other business within the USA. A few even sell out early to other investment companies, which continue to manage the plantations while eagerly awaiting the government deadline for compensation (and ignoring the fact that they've just become corporate slave owners). But most, looking on a plantation as a family legacy, resent being forced out of their way of life, and would rather consider fighting than leaving the US for Draka. The politicians on both sides (especially those in slave states who aren't slave owners themselves) hail this as a great solution, but most of the people (for various reasons) disagree with spending all that money. But with a wedge driven between the poor whites of the slave states and the rich slave owners, the cards are stacked against the planter aristocracy. Once the first prominent families announce their intentions to sell out, the die is cast, and soon many are signing up to go to Draka as whole regions and clans. The problems will now be getting all that money out of the US. The FRD begins building a fleet of armed luxury steamers to carry the expected flood of immigrants from southern US ports in early 1862. Armed because of fears of piracy, or US or even British naval intervention, luxury because some passengers will be wealthy even by Drakan standards. These ships will also carry small detachments of Drakan soldiers and teachers, to attempt to train and teach the immigrants in the ways of their new home while on the way to Africa. The FRD follows the twists and turns of the compensation legislation with great interest. Their hired lawyers find ways to help immigrants maximize their booty. They induce greedy men of the "free" states into setting up investment companies that will buy out the plantations early at a discount, and then sell off the land to the freed slaves and the land bonds as well.
-the united states postal service establishes a savings account program.
1860–70- Germany united. Dominion of Australia unites Australia,indonesia and New Zealand; aborigines are legally protected from exploitation. Electric generators and lighting.
-Mosquito vector of malaria established at Shahnapur Institute of Tropical Medicine, and large-scale efforts to combat the tsetse fly in central Africa finally begin to achieve real success. Expansion of Drakan settlement northward begins to catch up with military conquests. Immigrants from the US slave states spread through the Drakan frontier and infuse a massive amount of wealth into the economy, catalyzing a massive expansion in the service and industrial sectors. Drakan dialect takes on a pronounced "southern" twang/drawl from the latest influx on top of the earlier Loyalists. FRD has the lead in high-pressure steam and air technology, including storage of compressed air in underground concrete tanks.
1861-Unrest rises among the poor whites of the slave states, as they see the top and bottom of southern society planning to get rewards while they will receive nothing. The most dangerous ones begin collecting weapons or subverting the local militia, and plan to kill the slave owners and/or the slaves during the transition period after January 1862. Several such plans are exposed, but southern governors refuse to act with unity. Abolitionists, representatives of investment companies and other "carpetbaggers" flood the slave states, pursuing their own agendas. Some abolitionists see opportunities to gain votes for northern political parties among the freed men, others are there to distribute guns or facilitate last-minute escapes (they're still slaves down there, even if slavery will end soon), and a few are humanitarians hoping to aid in the worst situations. The investment companies are there to sign contracts for land bonds. There are even a few fortune-seekers claiming to be long lost relatives of a planter, so they can get a share. The railroad companies don't have enough workers, and importing Filipino labor only works for the Pacific end of the tracks. Mexico turns out to be a good source of workers for hire, as some of the pre-war peasants turned post-war small farmers are willing to try something else. A few railroad company agents enter the mix in the southern states, offering to buy strong slaves and even whole families, and employ them as free men on the westbound track building effort. Those sold before January 1862, and the owners that can pack up and leave early, are the lucky ones. Interest rates begin to rise, as the banks notice a demand for loans to generate the cash to pay off slave owners now, or buy land on speculation. The large sums of money being thrown about give a giddy impression of high finance, but the industrial expansion of the early "robber barons" is being sidetracked. It takes special guarantees by the US Treasury to ensure that the railroad companies get the credit they need to keep building, as they won't show a good return until the lines meet. Towards the end of the year, slave inspection teams composed of Army engineers and hired accountants and former slave traders, begin spreading throughout the slave states so they can get the job done quickly in early 1862. This volatile mix of people in the slave states, and the wild swings in value of "railroad land", will soon explode.
-The major leglislation is the creation of Freeman and Peon Bureau (including a subsidized school system) in much of old Mexico. The Carpetbaggers in Mexico have effective control over most of central and Western Mexico.
1862-Although the slave inspection teams try to do their jobs properly, they are often forced to intervene in the tense situations on plantations. Soon, havoc reigns with poor whites in militia-like bands attacking plantations, the slave owners and inspection teams and freed slaves defending themselves, some freed slaves taking revenge, and the recently compensated slave owners leaving a vacuum as they depart for the nearest port with whatever they can carry. Roving bands of freed slaves, radical abolitionists, and poor whites all seem willing to chase down rich former slave owners, and in most cases are willing to fight each other too. The plantations, highways, rivers and railways of the slave states become the settings for numerous robberies, small battles and atrocities. Congress finally authorizes mobilization of militia from free states to enter the slave states to try to keep the peace, but even they get bogged down and heavily involved with only slight progress. Some drakan ships have to fight their way out of southern ports against angry mobs, and then defend against pirates sallying from parts unknown. While not a civil war, the unrest in the slave states is close to anarchy until the last departing slave owners are generally known to have left. All told, over 350,000 planters and family members leave for Draka, taking a vast amount of wealth and leaving tremendous bitterness and bloodshed behind. another 100,000 people leave for brazil and 50,000 more leave for other lands. By the 1930's century over 8 million people have left the USA for draka in a slow exodus from the south.The financial system of the rest of the USA teeters dangerously close to collapse. There is negative economic growth going on, and the credit needed to keep the railroads going while the investment companies wait is getting harder to come by. Extended deployment by northern militia units is also very unpopular at home, and hurting the economy even further. Martial law declared in Virginia and several other southern states during the Slaver Exodus. Minnesota admitted as a state, star in white bar .
-States of aguascalientes, mexico,Azlatan(OTl's mexican federal district), colima, Baja California Norte and baja california sur admitted as states to placate the mexicans(and make sure they dont dominate the house of represenatives by admitting alot of the bigger states)of big populated states). Mexico city in the state of Azlatan renamed to Tenochtitlan for a new flavor. Emergence of neo-aztec style of architecture in mexico.
- The Farmstead Act is distributing land to farmers in the West and Mexico. Few Rail Road grants are being made at the current time other than the transcontinental route.
-Gran Chaco war as Paraguay declares war on bolivia and argentina. Due to lopez's militarization and industrialization it takes several years but resistance is crushed, immigration begun and development begun. As part of the deal for remaining nuetral, urugay goes to brazil.
Some quibbles
A lot of work and some of the problems in Stirling's dystopia are corrected. I think though that the British/Draka confrontation would be more intense. I once attempted a "Better Draka" project of my own and had a first and Second Draka War between Britian and Draka and the Drakans lost the first one. Many of their more distinctive traits (eg. women in combat, Janissaries) arose to make sure they won the second (which coincided with Crimean War). In fact "Never Again" became one of their mottos.
I always thought the Spiritualist movement began with the Fox Sisters in upstate NY in the 1840's.
Tom
A lot of work and some of the problems in Stirling's dystopia are corrected. I think though that the British/Draka confrontation would be more intense. I once attempted a "Better Draka" project of my own and had a first and Second Draka War between Britian and Draka and the Drakans lost the first one. Many of their more distinctive traits (eg. women in combat, Janissaries) arose to make sure they won the second (which coincided with Crimean War). In fact "Never Again" became one of their mottos.
I always thought the Spiritualist movement began with the Fox Sisters in upstate NY in the 1840's.
Tom
Straha
Banned
correction: the dutch were the first to actually settle it so I put that they discovered it.
and I have hwavy european settlement and development begin in indonesia beginning in the 18thcentury so we see a drop in the native birthrate so the population doesn't rise anywhere near as hgih as OTL. But yes it would be a long time if ever majorities of the population were white in batavia.
and I have hwavy european settlement and development begin in indonesia beginning in the 18thcentury so we see a drop in the native birthrate so the population doesn't rise anywhere near as hgih as OTL. But yes it would be a long time if ever majorities of the population were white in batavia.
Raymann
Banned
Alright so you have half a million people leave the US with the majority going to Africa. It still seems to me that even with all the scams and the free land offered, they would still experience a net loss in wealth and virtually all of their power. Rich families traced their heritage back before the Revolutionary War but in the move to Draka like their ancestors who moved to America, they're starting over again regardless of how much money they have. So what I'm saying is that it still seems unlikely that that many would leave. After the Civil War, not many slavers left cause they lost a lot of money that was tied up in slaves. Here they lose less but its still significant and most still have local land and power.
Also I think it would make much more sense to have Draka have accents much more like America, regionalized that is. You have Dutch accents from the original colonists, British accents from the later colonists, and Southern American accents from where they settled. You made it clear that the British settled in many places where the Dutch weren't and it just makes since that the American settlers, being plantation owners and coming in clans, would settle in the same relative geographical area near their families and friends. So in the southern half of Africa you would have geographic differences regarding accent and later on n the North where people from all over the South will settle, you can have a more homogeneous mix kind of like the Mid-West is in relation to the rest of America.
Also I think it would make much more sense to have Draka have accents much more like America, regionalized that is. You have Dutch accents from the original colonists, British accents from the later colonists, and Southern American accents from where they settled. You made it clear that the British settled in many places where the Dutch weren't and it just makes since that the American settlers, being plantation owners and coming in clans, would settle in the same relative geographical area near their families and friends. So in the southern half of Africa you would have geographic differences regarding accent and later on n the North where people from all over the South will settle, you can have a more homogeneous mix kind of like the Mid-West is in relation to the rest of America.
How many alternate Draka TLs are there?
BTW, how about giving them more allies? I always thought that Brazil would be Draka's best friend.
BTW, how about giving them more allies? I always thought that Brazil would be Draka's best friend.
Raymann
Banned
Well they abandoned Europe with having slavery although the Dutch might ally with them against Britian although thats def no in their intrest. Germany might/will ally with them as they often do in these timelines. Brazil might although they would be in competation due to trade of tropical plants and they would abolish slavery later on.
Straha,
Are they still going to develop the paranoia-based "we've got to conquer the world" ideology like they did in Stirling's books and in the "more realistic Draka TL"?
The Soviets and Chinese, on paper, said much the same things, but in both cases, ideology, to some degree or another, bowed to realism. The Sovs did this to a MUCH lesser degree than the Chinese, and that's one reason why the Communist gov't fell.
Of course, you could be planning the ultimate doom of the Draka as I write, so they might not NOT fall...
Are they still going to develop the paranoia-based "we've got to conquer the world" ideology like they did in Stirling's books and in the "more realistic Draka TL"?
The Soviets and Chinese, on paper, said much the same things, but in both cases, ideology, to some degree or another, bowed to realism. The Sovs did this to a MUCH lesser degree than the Chinese, and that's one reason why the Communist gov't fell.
Of course, you could be planning the ultimate doom of the Draka as I write, so they might not NOT fall...
Straha
Banned
Part 5: The Victorian era
1863-Exhaustion keeps the warring factions in the southeastern US from more than sporadic local outbursts of violence. virginia remains under martial law due to continued unrest. More Mexican militia and Army units are brought in, and finally a semblance of law and order is established in the South. However, in late 1863 a large amount of land bonds once controlled by the emigrants are suddenly all dumped on the market (the Drakans wrote some interesting provisions into the contracts). And most of the funds not paid out in compensation are lost to an embezzler who flees to Sicily. These events cause a financial panic in the northern states, but the South is past caring. The only good news is the steady progress and completion of the two transcontinental railroads; the railroads have taken to promising the workers some of the railroad land as incentives. All told, the railroads will give out nearly all their extra land beyond the immediate right-of-way, just to keep workers and creditors happy.
-Development of central air-condition in draka and the tropical part of the USA.
-In Mexico Juarez is using the Peon and Freeman bureau to reshape Mexican society. Decidedly anti-Church he is using funds to buy up Church property in forced sales to redistribute to small farmers. Cleverly he is cloaking much of this in Jeffersonian rhetoric about 'yeoman farmers' as the backbone of the republic. Late in the Year he is elected Senator from Azlatan. He also effectively controls the political machine in most of what was Mexico.
-Brazil opens up immigration this leads the rest of south america to do so. The immigrants increase the amount of possible industry and make south america prosperous.
-Beginning of a formation of a new national myth of a new start. This causes a revival of fundamentalist protestantism in the drakan society.
-Central airconditioning and Solar-power units (glass circulating-water collectors, with underground pressurized-water heat sinks developed both in draka and the USA. By 1900 all areas that are high sunlight tropical or subtropical areas have both of those things.
1864-The US economy begins recovering with the migration of people to the west and the vastly easier trade between east and west. Full recovery in the former slave states will take a generation. The animosity between poor whites and freed slaves dissipates only when industrial expansion brings enough jobs, fairly allocated on the basis of ability, and the groups finally notice that neither is doing much better or worse at farming.
-the USA begins to rebuild becuase of the easier trade and settlement in the far north and Mexico. Beginning of population boom for hispanics which lasts into the 20th century.
-first autosteamer developed, The autosteamer is first used for personal transport by the wealthy. First steam “drags†(trucks) developed. The warcar quickly moves to be based on the autosteamer.
-Navassa Island (south of east end of Cuba), Johnston Atoll (south of Hawaii), Howland, Baker and Jarvis Islands (South Pacific) annexed as US possessions
-the USA militias,army and navy are integrated.
-Racial qualificatiosn for becoming a naturalized citizen are removed in the USA.
1867-Construction of Panama Canal begins. Serrana Bank and Roncador Cay (north of Panama) claimed by North America. The panama canal is built by the government
-in order to provide grazing for animals and help restore depleted soil, Kudzu is introduced to the warmer parts of the USA. By the 20th centruy kudzu becomes a problem in the carribean,wetter mexican states and the wetter sunbelt southern states.
-the department of education is set up to do educational reform. The reforms are done on the new england model of eudcation which helps to boost literacy and tolerance in the south. The department of education leads to all of the USA gaining scandanavian literacy rates by 1900.
- Economically the US Steam Merchant Marine is rivaling Britian's as heavy federal investment is subsidizing production. Rail Road construction is lagging in the South and capital is flowing into Maratime industries. Tarriffs remain high as US industry grows at a very high rate. The Upper South is undergoing light industrialization, particulary in North Carolina were a strong Textile industry is being developed based on cheap Italian and Polish immigrant labor as well as black/mexican/phillipine labor from the USA itself.
1868-An invasion of Panama by Grande Columbia forces is repulsed, but both sides agree to return to the status quo after Britain and France threaten trade boycotts. The European powers are more interested in seeing the Panama Canal built. However, the message is given to the USA that further American expansion on the northern or southern continents will not be tolerated. Official acceptance of this, regardless of jingoistic "North America is ours" rhetoric, turns American attention to internal development, seizing Pacific islands and meddling in the Far East just like the Europeans. Midway Island (west of Hawaii) annexed as US possession.
-The Westward expansion continues and spending by the Federal Government remains at historically high levels (Freeman bureauand schools to mention just two quasi-permenent programs). Railroad and Steamship subsidies are particularly large (much of it finding its way into the pockets of the Republicans and not a few co-opted democrats). The Navy has seen far less demobilization, in fact the Wampanoog class has become a model for a new series (12) of raiders (these with metal not wooden gears). Western Railroad Act passed, authorizes of four more transcontinental routes.
1870s: Natural rubber production skyrockets after the tree is introduced from the Amazon jungle to Ceylon,Mexico,Cuba and Australian Batavia (Indonesia,singapore,borneo and island malaya). The plantation system on Ceylon is more efficient, yet small private holdings persist elsewhere, as owners refuse to consolidate for fear of emulating the british who are emulatign the drakans in some ways. The plantation system slowly appears for rubber but usually in the form of local farmer coopertives.
-As a measure to increase the economy of the former mexican states and the drier parts of the USA and to make sure that starvation and famine become much less probelmes efforts of cultivating various desert crops begin with varying sucess.
1871- The Know Nothing party in the US finally breaks down with most members winding up in the Democratic party. Most Irish, Polish and Italian voters are now Republicans. Again now there aren't so many national parties, although some socialist party organizations are growing.
-Greater paraguay declared.
1872-Steam turbine perfected by Technological Institute of Archona.First rigid dirigibles. Archona and Philadelphia are first cities to have telephone networks and street lighting.
-Cordite or "smokeless powder" patented.
-a large group of former Mexican territory admitted as states ("estados" locally). Of these Sinaloa,Guanajuato,Jalisco, Veracruz, Zacatecas, Potosi, durango,nayarit and Meseta are admitted) lower antilles and trinidad also admitted. Most Mexican states are dominated by US citizens who moved in, English is emerging as a major language in the Old Mexican States, particularly in commerce, government and industry. The indian tribes, creoles and other group's in mexico slowly begin assimilating.
-Benito Juarez elected president.
-comstock laws not passed
1873- Long-brewing bitterness between American Indians and the westward-spreading white men erupts in a Sioux chief leading a growing force in a series of massacres of wagon trains and settlements. Several Army and militia units sent to stop them are wiped out or defeated.
-Luther Burbank begins a program of commerciaizling and domesticating the blue camas and wapato plants in the west.
- Juarez and the Republicans pass first national labor laws
1874–75: After the Indian revolts spread to a wide area and even settled tribes begin leaving the reservations, several territorial governors petition the Congress and President for authority to call out the militias and mobilize the Army. (Territorial governors, unlike state governors, cannot call out militia territory-wide unless the Army is active already.) The rallying cry becomes "the only good'un is a dead'un!" Several gun manufacturers compete for business by offering substantial discounts and even credit purchase plans to militia members. These are state-of-the-art repeating rifles and revolvers, using the new smokeless powder. Essentially the entire male population west of the Mississippi is issued the most advanced firearms and allowed to use them, no questions asked, against American Indians. Atrocities are widespread on both sides. This includes nearly wiping out several encampments of peaceful Indians, severely discrediting "peace chiefs" like Black Kettle of the Cheyenne.
- In Mexico heavy Anglo settlement continues. There is growing unrest in several states over the perceived (and actual) discrimination against Hispanics. However a sizable class of Mexican society is going Anglo both by culture and intermarriage.
-the supreme court rules that official ballots are unconstitutional because limiting the people who can get on the ballots violates the right to vote.
1874-Anthony Trollope visits Archona while researching his book "Prussia in the Antipodes".
-beginning of development boom in the carribean, central america and coastal mexican states. Florida, jerico and Napoleona also benefit from it. also begin to benefti from it. It takes until the the s
1875-It was during the Juarez Administration that the foundation of a true national peace was reinforced and became unalterable. The Agricultural and Freeman Bureaus became indispensible to Southern Farmers, white and black. While some degree of racial prejudice was impossible to erradicate, economic interest forced it to retreat. Further when social darwinism was expounded it found a very chilly reception in the South. Always religious (or at least evangelical) Southern fusionist preachers (black and white) preached sermon after sermon against the extension of darwinism either political or racial. The first black represenative to the House is elected. Deep South Congressmen walk out when he is seated (but after a quorum is called). juarez cleverly uses their absence to pass an extenstion of the Freeman and Peon Bureau.
- In foreign policy the US is developing a more favorable Latin American policy, in part no doubt influenced by the handful of Hispanic Represenatives and Senators. Relations with France and England are very strained over some Mexican debts, the US tarriff and the growing maritime competition.
- In Central America and mexico the Freedmen in Nicarauga and Taumalipas are slowly removing the Anglos and Hispanics who had dominated the government and economy. Economically the Anglos/Hispanics will remain dominant for another 25 years but politically they are eased out of power in the next 10 years.
-Ethiopia falls to draka in a brutal war.
1876- After a blast of carnage in which several American Indian tribes are completely wiped out, the remainder surrender to the Army (in preference to the more bloodthirsty civilians and militias) and meekly return to their reservations. The intervention of the federal government, particularly in the form of the Army, is instrumental in stopping the clashes between the tribes and territorial militias. The Indian Massacres — however you interpret the name — are over, but this horrific episode in American history, coming so soon after the anarchy in the slave states, colors the national psyche from then on. The United States basically turns inward in shock, to peacefully develop their frontiers and rebuild the former slave states. Decision made to reduce the size of all stars on the USA state flag so more can fit without changing the proportions of the bars; it will be seen with the next admittance of new states. "Century of Progress" exposition held in Saint Louis, Missouri; first serious proposal to move USA national capital to Saint Louis or another more central location than District of Columbia.
- Lincoln is re-elected president of the United States. America retreats into isolationism. Juarez becomes hugely influenced by the writings of Joseph Bennick, Henry David Thoreau, and Philip Wong. Bennick's works The American Dream, Landscapes and Vistas, and American Naturalism argued for the establishment of huge national preserves modeled after the ones in Maine. He was a great proponent of Evolution and his writings make the teaching of Evolution popular throughout the nation. Thoreau, often called "America's Conscience", followed upon the works of Emerson arguing against organized religion and for personal enlightenment. His works Every Man a Prophet and Disciples of Humanitycaused outrage in the Church but became popular with the nation's poor and those that had witnessed war in the name of religion. The third great writer to influence the Lincoln presidency was, Philip Hamilton Wong. He wrote only one book, American Industry. In it he called for good relations between Labor and Capital. He promoted labor owned industry and called upon the government to act as referee to ensure that Labor and Capital remained in balance.
-Vast public work projects such as rail lines, city parks, and nature preserves hold America's attention as they were constructed.
-Draka begins a program to create a sea in the Chott Melrhir part of Algeria by building a canal. The canal is finished by 1885. Draka also puts harsh controls on the local's agricultural practices. THe flooding of the depression and the controls lead to a fertile greener algeria.
-Edison invents the Serger and a working twin-tub washing machine.
-A rather ridiculous book entitled "The Elders of the Seven Hills" is put out (in part by some rather determined anti-Catholic Agents of the English Secret Service). It purports to be a record of the meetings and plans of various Catholic leaders in their plot to take over the world and crush other religions.
1878- heavy immigration of jews and into the US follows pogroms and strife (1878-1898 over 3 million). This will result in the 2nd major US musical movement in the early 20th century (besides Jazz) and based on sort of Slavic-American-Jewish fusion called Dulcer.
-a new Senator from Nicarauga arrives - his name is Williams, he is not even slightly Hispanic (son of former Alabama slaves), and he's black as the ace of spades. The Senate votes not to seat him, citing Article I, Section 5, "Each House shall be the judge of the elections... and qualifications of its members." Nicarauga sues to have Williams seated under Article V, "no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate."
-US enacts first peacetime federal income tax.
1879-britain decide to make india into a more willing market for goods and an industrial producer. The british authorities begin establishing mandatory education to get more of the indians to learn english
1880–89: Autosteamers achieve popularity as vehicles of the wealthy, especially in the Free Republic of Draka now that closed-cycle systems are perfected. Refrigeration, including central air conditioning and then smaller portable units, developed as a variant application of compressors. Solar power systems are developed for small-scale water heating and electric power generation. Single-barrel machine guns, flame-throwers, land mines, poison gas, and submarines are developed but not yet used in battle.
- Austro–German alliance with Ottoman Empire, construction of Berlin–Baghdad railway. Motion pictures developed. Steam turbine introduced for railroad engines. Antiseptic surgery and development of anesthetics, after the numerous amputations and preventable deaths of the Anglo–Russian War. Panama Canal completed.
- The U.S. Congress passes the National Military Reform Act and the Military Education Act (similar to OTL Montgomery G.I. Bill).
-American Indians petition US federal government to have their reservations and Indian territories administered at the federal level, rather than considered parts of states. The Indians regard the federal government and Army as
their protector, and the states and territories as the source of the militias that were their strongest foes. Only several small areas in states east of the Mississippi become "Federal Indian Territories", most of them are created in the western lands still not yet states. Hashing out the boundaries keeps remaining territories in the American West from statehood for several years. Many of the indian tribes began to learn and adopt white culture and tooking up farming, ranching, trading in buffalo products, and limited mining and industry. The population of the tribes begins to increase due to the end of the massacres.. Indian tribes are recognized as sovereign dependencies of the United States with all Indians having dual citizenship.
-Free population of FRD is growing more slowly than serf population, leading to several bloody attempted slave revolts and the imposition of the harshest measures yet for control. Settlement Directorate raises childbearing requirement for plantation Landholders to 4 new or pre-existing acknowledged free births in first 10 years. Provincial Assembly authorizes increasing Citizen stipend for each additional free child to encourage free marriages and population growth, as acceptable immigrants have decreased greatly. Rise in popularity of impaling (inspired by the Ottomans) and use of crude flame-throwers or poison gas on rioting serfs. Uprisings in Kongo Province lead to large-scale deportations to destructive labor camps in addition to the usual measures. Brotherhood of the Lash encourages educational opportunities commensurate only with increasing responsibilities of serfs, leading to mostly illiterate plantation field hands and industrial machine tenders. Backlash to widespread international condemnation of these measures is the genesis of the Militarist philosophy in the FRD. Nearby egyptian territories attract many escaping serfs. Several large water diversion and hydroelectric projects begun.
-The ottoman empire begins taking steps to eliminate bedouin and begins planting plants to try to make the deserts green. The USA begins following suit in the southwest with planting trees and plants in various areas where they fit.
-Regular dirigible service on several continents. American autosteamer production surpasses Dominations' as the limited market in the Domination is saturated by their high-quality goods, and American inventors and entrepreneurs have pulled down the cost of production to make less-sturdy products more affordable for their middle class. Continuing Drakan emphasis on an extensive military-industrial application yet. Semi-automatic pistols developed. Tolgren model 1890 "automatic" pistol issued in large numbers to Citizens as standard sidearm.
-In England a series of repressive measures for Ireland are passed. They are intentionally designed to drive the Irish Catholic Population out of the Island. In the Northern Counties they work well. Most of exodus winds up in US Northern Industrial Cities (where it is popularly called the Second Sorrows - the first being the Potato famine/immigration of the 1840s).
-A federal anti-lynching law is passed by the USA's government in response to race rioting in some southern states.
-Brazil begins to get more equal treatment from the great powers due to its industrialization and its size. Brazil continues industrializing.
1880-In America the results of the slaver exodus continue to spread throughout society. The militia system is abolished. The most dramatic immediate impact is the creation of a large standing army with an extensive reserve system. Conscription instituted in the USA. The US will eventually have a professional army of over 1 million with another 4 million in reserves.
The Navy also will dramatically expand with the construction of larger battleships and cruisers. Interestingly the American Navy becomes enamoured with submarine technology and institutes a number of test bed sub platforms. This early most are deathtraps, with no range beyond coastal attacks. The increased naval and army spending means a larger US government, more taxes and more government intereference in the economy. Another interesting impact is the passage of the Federal Trade Union Commission. The US recognizes and regulates industrial unions that are operating in the US armaments industry. These eventually spread from their base in the Northeast to the Central and Western US.
-Edison invents the Serger and a working twin-tub washing machine.
1882- Security Directorate given arrest powers for all but high-ranking politicians (Senatorial immunity) and Citizens currently serving the Republic outside the Police Zone (mostly War Directorate personnel in battle). Karl von Shrakenberg born.
-US railroads introduce railroad time, dividing the US into the Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific time zones.
-In Europe a new type of anarchism (called Millism and in part based on John Stuart Mill's books) is gaining ground. Not at first overtly violent the Millist none the less are disruptive to society as they attempt to breakdown national governments (eventually by terror).
-Spanish declared a secondary official language of the USA, but the English version of any government document has precedence. This is provoked by an embarrassing incident in Chihuahua City when reading aloud a faulty translation of the Constitution on the occasion of statehood. The status of both languages leads to schools teaching spanish as the same level
-Guarana cultivation introduced into Cuba,mexico and in Australia's batavia province.
-The first Labor Party candidates are elected to the American House of Representatives from Ohio and Massachusetts.
-Drakon-French war as superior drakon troops march north and take all of french africa in a brutal offensive involving thousand dirigible raids. After losing africa the french redouble their settlement and assimilation programs for their other colonies.
1883- In continuing efforts to include the Hispanics (commonly still called Mexicans) in the USA, and better reflect the westward movement of America, further serious proposals have been made since 1876 to move the national capital from New York city. to a more central location. Geographically, the center of the continental part of the nation is now in northern Texas or the Indian terretory. However, the best proposals are for somewhere along the Rio Grande, although not where the Mexicans were severely beaten; the best candidates are Laredo and El Paso, which both have "twin cities" across the river.
-the artifical fiber, Rayon is invented which will result in changes down the line in terms of fashion. Rayon will lead to cheaper clothes which means that the middle class can afford to change their wardrobe more.
-Women's suffrage is granted in the USA.
-beginning of a large wave of immigration from the ottoman empire/north africa to the USA/south america. The later results of this include the formation of arabs as another culture with its own parts of big cities with "little araby" along with "little italy" type communities in big cities. This causes the beginning of a slow backlash of anti-immigrant sentiment.
-the UK and draka split the sudan.
1884-beginning of equal rights movements for blacks in southern states. The movement unlike OTL's civil rights focuses more on economic equality first then social equality later. The results of this are earlier white acceptance of black social equality and the beginnings of intermarriage between blacks and whites. This equal rights movement also causes a greater acceptance of nonwhites as being americans.indio/mestizo equal rights movement to appear.
-Almost 360 years after the conquest of the Incas, the mountain retreat of Machu Picchu is found
-Shaka Zulu leads a revolt in the densely settled province of natalia that is only supressed after poison gas and machine guns are used. This quells reformist settlement in the drakan nation for a few decades.
-Catholic priests are allowed to preach to serfs, after careful selection and training by the Domination.
-Beginning of major triumps of civil rights movements as northern states remove anti-black laws, virginia, west virginia, tenesee, arkansas, cuba, coahuila and much of the upper south grant civil rights. The lower south takes until the 1890's to grant civil rights and voting rights.
-US Armies reorganizes into a general staff system. Geographical commands are abandoned in favor of more general ones, ex. "First Army".
1885-Beginning of renovations of the USA's capital district in manhatten.
1887-The Peon and Freeman Burea has been transformed into the Federal Education and Support Department. It has created a series (particularly in old Mexico and the West) of Schools that operate alongside the traditional state schools. With the South reforming from slavery the idea of state's rights seems to be dying.
1888: First transatlantic flight, by a french dirigible from Apollonaris (Dakar, Senegal) to Recife in Brazil.
-Kaiser Frederick III begins his reign without any problems, his son Wilhem dies of an autosteamer accident.
-Kimonos and shalwar suits begin to rise in populairty in the western nations due to easier making of them.
-In another landmark decision the Supreme Court declares that Corporations are artificial entities, not citizens. (the Opposite of our TL see - Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad). Heavy regulation of corporations soon follows.
-The US annexes Samoan islands. The powerful US Pacific Fleet convinces the competing Germans not to force the issue.
1889-slavery outlawed in Brazil. 100,000 slaveowners move to Draka.
-The USN continues to grow as the RN and USN compete to build battleships. Initially many are the sideturret type (a la USS Maine) but in a dramatic step the US builds the first multi-turrent ship (based on a cross of the more advanced monitor classes of the 1870s), the USS Jackson (henceforth the term Jackson will be interchangable with large modern battleship, like
Dreadnought in our TL). The Americans also continue to experiment with submarines, but until a decent gas or deisel engine is developed subs are basically crippled. Still the US does pioneer some inovative techniques.
-the secret ballot and cross-endoresement adopted as further electoral reforms.
-the USA begins a program of national consrcription to "gain a place in the sun".
1890-US government calls the Western frontier closed, but it also says the Northern and southern frontiers are still open.
1891-President Burnside(who had made his fortune in arms manufacturing and Rail Roads) opens talks with the UK about a new relationship. Heavy US investment in arms research, several quasi-industrial labs are established to develop new weapons.
-first immigration restrictions enacted as restrictions of irish, russians and arab immigration to the United States. The excluded immigrants go to greater paraguay.
-small single dwelling central air conditioners are developed.
1893-elements of the former Mexican flag are inserted in the blue bar of the USA state flag. The Mexican and former Spanish states call in enough favors to get the eagle and snake from the former Mexican Republic onto the US flag.
-At the US Socialist convention the Communist wing of the party is expelled in favor of the more moderate socialist. Many of the Communist are recent German and Russian immigrants. The move actually strenghtens the party as it is seen now as more American.
-radio first invented by an obscure american inventor.
-the Drakan government begins taking steps towards converting the serfs from being simply serfs to being more of the powerless majority. This marks the drakan transformation into more of a totalitarian society.
1894- Libyan oil fields discovered by British teams drilling for water. Automatic submachine gun developed by Technical Section of War Directorate; immediately issued to Security Directorate forces for riot control in the form of the Machine Pistol Mk. I. Cascadia (Washington),Michoacan, Dakota (North and South Dakota) and Bighorn (Montana) admitted as states, 3 more stars in white bar of USA state flag.
-Beginning of Andean war as Gran Colombia and Chile declare war on Greater paraguay.
-Col. Samuel Langley, Ordinance Department-US Army flies first heavier-than-air craft.
-The 1894 civil rights act is passed into law. The education reforms and the higher proportion of middle class freeblacks along with the large black population led to reforms being done. The land reform and better eudcation led to literacy tests and other disenfrancisement tricks failing. This law merely codifies in a national manner what was becoming the status quo in the USA.
-The USN continues to grow as the RN and USN compete to build battleships. Initially many are the sideturret type (a la USS Maine) but in a dramatic step the US builds the first multi-turrent ship (based on a cross of the more advanced monitor classes of the 1870s), the USS Jackson (henceforth the term Jackson will be interchangable with large modern battleship, like Dreadnought in our TL). The Americans also continue to experiment with submarines, but until a decent gas or deisel engine is developed subs are basically crippled. Still the US does pioneer some inovative techniques.
1895-In England Millist are working for Women's rights with a growing Sufferage movement (roughly 10 years after the USA passed the Contitutional Amendment giving women the right to vote).
1897-Final surrender of chile and gran colombia and full annexation of those areas.
1899-Chinese–Japanese War; Japan annexes Korea and Formosa. Western powers agree to maintain Chinese mainland ports open to free trade, extracting concessions from the weakening Qing Dynasty.
1900-1914-Amid a growing appreciation by world leaders that the interlocking alliances have led to a delicate Balance of Power that could be disastrously upset, many people believe that this is a true "Golden Age" for mankind. Unfortunately, it ignores the direct exploitation of millions by the Drakans, and the indirect activities in India and China that subjugate even more for the benefit of distant lands. But the march of technology has led to better lives in much of Europe, North America, and the lands of the Drakans, for those who can afford it or were born to it. Greater paraguay, the USA and Draka begin influencing world affairs.
-Naval building race between the United States, United Kingdom and Germany continues.
1900- Renovations on the capital district in manhatten are completed. The capital district is built around a large six-sided Mall. Near it's center a large brass statue of George Wahington on his horse is set up. This becomes the Blackmoor Memorial. Farther down the mall the Liberty Wall is erected with the names of martyrs to the cause of liberty. The National Arch is built out of stone from all around the nation. At the other end of the Mall a large Asian Garden is placed and beyond that is the International Trade Pavilion (a large building built in the oriental style). The President's Residence is built as an octagon house in Italianate style. The Congressional Hall is a large building built in the Italinate style. Work also begins on Fulton Station, a large train station, and several blocks of brick townhouses.
-A map of Egypt shows in the Delta large areas where up to 65% of the place names are European type and some Hindi, and some names in Ancient Egyptian by scholarly people who treated it as the right language for the area. As OTL, Egypt has its own aircraft factory near Helwan - but the suburb round the factory is called Vimananagar and no name in the language of the religion of the Prophet; its borough limits signa are in the Roman alphabet and Devanagari and hieroglyphics but not Arabic. Helwan is still called Helwan, despite two attempts by some of its inhabitants to get rid of the apparent reference to Hell and rename the town Bletchley after the town or origin of the first white settlers in the area.
-Reform and modernization programs in China, in progress slowly over the past decade, are expanded to include a significantly enhanced education system based on western ideas, and a program of light industry and railway construction.
-Draka begins taking steps to make industry an important part of its economy. the measures taken including moving from an agricultual to industrial society by reminvg limits on mechanizing farms.
-Sweeping social, economic reforms in US. National Social Insurance Act establishes national pension, medical insurance scheme. Minimum Wage Act, Factory Safety Act, National Labor Act passed. Department of social welfare established. These are all part of president Bryan's populist influenced democrat party reforms.
-the state of jefferson in part of southern oregon and far northern california admitted.
-In the US the USN deploys a practical short range submarine. It is slow, can't dive very deep, is underpowered and plagued with technical difficulties, but it is 10 years ahead of any other nations technology.
-Anglo-American alliance treaty signed. The first application of this is in the first world war where American troops join in from day one.
1901- Citizen women declared liable for wartime conscription into combat positions in the Domination, but training
is still segregated. Yucatan and Panama admitted as states. Guam, American Samoa and Wake Island annexed as US possessions.
-the constitution amendmended to remove the requiorements for the militia service before voting in federal electiosn but the states are allowed to retain it for their elections.
-17th Amendment empowers Federal government to regulate industry.
-Child labor banned in the USA by federal law. This comes on the heels on the national closed shop and other labor reforms. A nationwide scheme of federal workshops to provide work for the unemployed is established. The department of social welfare is building public housing in every large city and is engaged in a major slum-clearance project. In rural areas, the Social Wefare Department has begun a program of distributing high-quality, but inexpensive, prefabricated housing units to replace shanties and other unsanitary dwellings.
-the indonesian revolt as millions of indonesians revolt in a 5 year rebellion ending with 5 million dead.
1903-Pope Innocent XI convenes a Vatican council. In a dramatic step he pushes for mass to be said in the venacular and several other reforms. Some small number of Catholics (Radical/Reactionary) split from the Church, but by and large thereforms are well received. Innocent also opens a dialog with various Jewish leaders and orders an Papal investigation of anti-semitism inside the Church.
-Bank of the USA established with branches in many states.
-Shalwar suits become popularized articles of clothing.
1905-Television first developed. It stays as a curiosity until about 1910 or so when the first regional TV network is developed in the USA. TV remains the preserve of the wealthy for several years.
-the supreme courts rules that primary elections and giving candidacy official status violated freedom of association.
-The Colorado floods the Salton Sink area. The new route is encouraged by settlers there (in spite of having to move the town of Jade to higher ground), and by 1909 the Widney Sea level stabilizes. The local climate ameliates somewhat, and agriculture begins to bloom in the area. Tourism also becomes a big money item at the resorts built on the Salton shores.
-18th Amendment guarantees workers right to organize in America. This is passed despite republican protest.
1907- For no particular reason, a Irish chemist accidently discovers LSD(it's psychoactive effects aren't discovered until WWI, however)
1908–09- Japan becomes bogged down in a war in Manchuria. Russian intervention is defeated, both on land and at sea. First battleships sunk by aerial bombardment. The abysmal performance of the Russian armed forces, combined with social unrest, leads to a revolution in Russia. A true constitutional monarchy is established under Tsar Alykzandr IV, and several noted Westernizers are established in top government positions. A Communist group in St. Petersburg incites an armed uprising a little too late, and is crushed and rooted out by loyal troops and the Tsar's secret police. Qing Dynasty continues in China, but with a council of military leaders (warlords) the real power behind the throne.
-beginning of british conquest of afghanistan. The war takes over 10 years but afghanistan is conquered with major resitatnace crushed. Poison gas used in afghanistan.
-Rumors of mass graves in ireland and later pictures of them begin to show up.
-The United States Army Air Corps becomes a large wing of the army devoted to using the current air technology. An american air force is establsihed. A Strong zepplin air merchant marine is attached to the navy.
1910-1914-technological advances in this era include Artificial rubber Advanced antibiotics (needed against the subtropical environments the Drakon/American settlers met while consolidating their hold on the tropical parts of the lands they rule). Television (in addition to advanced monitoring techniques through two-way televised transmissions...),Fuel efficient internal combustion engines (lessening the need for petroleum so the military can use more with less need for rationing.)
-Britain begins industrializing india.
-Greater paraguy move up to the ranks of the first world nations. It is following brazil's lead in becoming moderanized.
-W.R. Hearst's media empire broken up with some taken over by thegovernment. The parts nationalized become the American broadcasing service(ABS). Several newspapers are also taken over the government. the ABS is the first and so far only nationwide radio/TV broadcaster.
-the mesoamerican sport bodyball becomes popular in America as the cultural effects of mexicans and blacks moving north in previous decades has shown.
-In China the Catholic missionaries have been very successful. They have also been rather casual about Church rites, allowing a type of ancestor worship to continue along with many other traditional practices. The bulk of the Urban population (less
than 5% of total) is now Catholic and a significant number of the rural peoples are converting. In part this is also driven by a tax manumssion for any new convert.
-The USN has also begun a series of experiments with aircraft, carriers and long range submarines. The RN has also adopted aircraft and carriers but is little interested in subs.
-Russia begins an attempt to move population and industry to new lands east of the urals.
1909- Slave rebellion in domination crushed with 1 million dead and usage of poison gas.
-Qat cultivation began in mexico after a defector from Draka explains the profitability of quat and its effects and brings some over. Qat reaches north of the rio grande in the 20's and most states ban it in some form.
-the USA gets the south american countries to join it in an alliance. The alliance isn't a simple USA/(insert nation) alliance, it is an alliance of all of the nations concerned.
1912-Theodore Roosevelt elected president.
-Germany adopts a more militarized national school system, a symptom of the rise of Prussian/Militarist influence in German government. Germany adops a program of "National training"(think a combo of boot camp and physical education) based on the one set up in draka
1913-President Roosevelt has decided to fund a large scale investment in Rail lines (both light and heavy). The Interstate Rail line project also entails a massive investment in light rail lines inside cities. Heavy government subsidies are created for construction of industrial lines.
-beginning of development boom in the carribean and coastal mexican states
1863-Exhaustion keeps the warring factions in the southeastern US from more than sporadic local outbursts of violence. virginia remains under martial law due to continued unrest. More Mexican militia and Army units are brought in, and finally a semblance of law and order is established in the South. However, in late 1863 a large amount of land bonds once controlled by the emigrants are suddenly all dumped on the market (the Drakans wrote some interesting provisions into the contracts). And most of the funds not paid out in compensation are lost to an embezzler who flees to Sicily. These events cause a financial panic in the northern states, but the South is past caring. The only good news is the steady progress and completion of the two transcontinental railroads; the railroads have taken to promising the workers some of the railroad land as incentives. All told, the railroads will give out nearly all their extra land beyond the immediate right-of-way, just to keep workers and creditors happy.
-Development of central air-condition in draka and the tropical part of the USA.
-In Mexico Juarez is using the Peon and Freeman bureau to reshape Mexican society. Decidedly anti-Church he is using funds to buy up Church property in forced sales to redistribute to small farmers. Cleverly he is cloaking much of this in Jeffersonian rhetoric about 'yeoman farmers' as the backbone of the republic. Late in the Year he is elected Senator from Azlatan. He also effectively controls the political machine in most of what was Mexico.
-Brazil opens up immigration this leads the rest of south america to do so. The immigrants increase the amount of possible industry and make south america prosperous.
-Beginning of a formation of a new national myth of a new start. This causes a revival of fundamentalist protestantism in the drakan society.
-Central airconditioning and Solar-power units (glass circulating-water collectors, with underground pressurized-water heat sinks developed both in draka and the USA. By 1900 all areas that are high sunlight tropical or subtropical areas have both of those things.
1864-The US economy begins recovering with the migration of people to the west and the vastly easier trade between east and west. Full recovery in the former slave states will take a generation. The animosity between poor whites and freed slaves dissipates only when industrial expansion brings enough jobs, fairly allocated on the basis of ability, and the groups finally notice that neither is doing much better or worse at farming.
-the USA begins to rebuild becuase of the easier trade and settlement in the far north and Mexico. Beginning of population boom for hispanics which lasts into the 20th century.
-first autosteamer developed, The autosteamer is first used for personal transport by the wealthy. First steam “drags†(trucks) developed. The warcar quickly moves to be based on the autosteamer.
-Navassa Island (south of east end of Cuba), Johnston Atoll (south of Hawaii), Howland, Baker and Jarvis Islands (South Pacific) annexed as US possessions
-the USA militias,army and navy are integrated.
-Racial qualificatiosn for becoming a naturalized citizen are removed in the USA.
1867-Construction of Panama Canal begins. Serrana Bank and Roncador Cay (north of Panama) claimed by North America. The panama canal is built by the government
-in order to provide grazing for animals and help restore depleted soil, Kudzu is introduced to the warmer parts of the USA. By the 20th centruy kudzu becomes a problem in the carribean,wetter mexican states and the wetter sunbelt southern states.
-the department of education is set up to do educational reform. The reforms are done on the new england model of eudcation which helps to boost literacy and tolerance in the south. The department of education leads to all of the USA gaining scandanavian literacy rates by 1900.
- Economically the US Steam Merchant Marine is rivaling Britian's as heavy federal investment is subsidizing production. Rail Road construction is lagging in the South and capital is flowing into Maratime industries. Tarriffs remain high as US industry grows at a very high rate. The Upper South is undergoing light industrialization, particulary in North Carolina were a strong Textile industry is being developed based on cheap Italian and Polish immigrant labor as well as black/mexican/phillipine labor from the USA itself.
1868-An invasion of Panama by Grande Columbia forces is repulsed, but both sides agree to return to the status quo after Britain and France threaten trade boycotts. The European powers are more interested in seeing the Panama Canal built. However, the message is given to the USA that further American expansion on the northern or southern continents will not be tolerated. Official acceptance of this, regardless of jingoistic "North America is ours" rhetoric, turns American attention to internal development, seizing Pacific islands and meddling in the Far East just like the Europeans. Midway Island (west of Hawaii) annexed as US possession.
-The Westward expansion continues and spending by the Federal Government remains at historically high levels (Freeman bureauand schools to mention just two quasi-permenent programs). Railroad and Steamship subsidies are particularly large (much of it finding its way into the pockets of the Republicans and not a few co-opted democrats). The Navy has seen far less demobilization, in fact the Wampanoog class has become a model for a new series (12) of raiders (these with metal not wooden gears). Western Railroad Act passed, authorizes of four more transcontinental routes.
1870s: Natural rubber production skyrockets after the tree is introduced from the Amazon jungle to Ceylon,Mexico,Cuba and Australian Batavia (Indonesia,singapore,borneo and island malaya). The plantation system on Ceylon is more efficient, yet small private holdings persist elsewhere, as owners refuse to consolidate for fear of emulating the british who are emulatign the drakans in some ways. The plantation system slowly appears for rubber but usually in the form of local farmer coopertives.
-As a measure to increase the economy of the former mexican states and the drier parts of the USA and to make sure that starvation and famine become much less probelmes efforts of cultivating various desert crops begin with varying sucess.
1871- The Know Nothing party in the US finally breaks down with most members winding up in the Democratic party. Most Irish, Polish and Italian voters are now Republicans. Again now there aren't so many national parties, although some socialist party organizations are growing.
-Greater paraguay declared.
1872-Steam turbine perfected by Technological Institute of Archona.First rigid dirigibles. Archona and Philadelphia are first cities to have telephone networks and street lighting.
-Cordite or "smokeless powder" patented.
-a large group of former Mexican territory admitted as states ("estados" locally). Of these Sinaloa,Guanajuato,Jalisco, Veracruz, Zacatecas, Potosi, durango,nayarit and Meseta are admitted) lower antilles and trinidad also admitted. Most Mexican states are dominated by US citizens who moved in, English is emerging as a major language in the Old Mexican States, particularly in commerce, government and industry. The indian tribes, creoles and other group's in mexico slowly begin assimilating.
-Benito Juarez elected president.
-comstock laws not passed
1873- Long-brewing bitterness between American Indians and the westward-spreading white men erupts in a Sioux chief leading a growing force in a series of massacres of wagon trains and settlements. Several Army and militia units sent to stop them are wiped out or defeated.
-Luther Burbank begins a program of commerciaizling and domesticating the blue camas and wapato plants in the west.
- Juarez and the Republicans pass first national labor laws
1874–75: After the Indian revolts spread to a wide area and even settled tribes begin leaving the reservations, several territorial governors petition the Congress and President for authority to call out the militias and mobilize the Army. (Territorial governors, unlike state governors, cannot call out militia territory-wide unless the Army is active already.) The rallying cry becomes "the only good'un is a dead'un!" Several gun manufacturers compete for business by offering substantial discounts and even credit purchase plans to militia members. These are state-of-the-art repeating rifles and revolvers, using the new smokeless powder. Essentially the entire male population west of the Mississippi is issued the most advanced firearms and allowed to use them, no questions asked, against American Indians. Atrocities are widespread on both sides. This includes nearly wiping out several encampments of peaceful Indians, severely discrediting "peace chiefs" like Black Kettle of the Cheyenne.
- In Mexico heavy Anglo settlement continues. There is growing unrest in several states over the perceived (and actual) discrimination against Hispanics. However a sizable class of Mexican society is going Anglo both by culture and intermarriage.
-the supreme court rules that official ballots are unconstitutional because limiting the people who can get on the ballots violates the right to vote.
1874-Anthony Trollope visits Archona while researching his book "Prussia in the Antipodes".
-beginning of development boom in the carribean, central america and coastal mexican states. Florida, jerico and Napoleona also benefit from it. also begin to benefti from it. It takes until the the s
1875-It was during the Juarez Administration that the foundation of a true national peace was reinforced and became unalterable. The Agricultural and Freeman Bureaus became indispensible to Southern Farmers, white and black. While some degree of racial prejudice was impossible to erradicate, economic interest forced it to retreat. Further when social darwinism was expounded it found a very chilly reception in the South. Always religious (or at least evangelical) Southern fusionist preachers (black and white) preached sermon after sermon against the extension of darwinism either political or racial. The first black represenative to the House is elected. Deep South Congressmen walk out when he is seated (but after a quorum is called). juarez cleverly uses their absence to pass an extenstion of the Freeman and Peon Bureau.
- In foreign policy the US is developing a more favorable Latin American policy, in part no doubt influenced by the handful of Hispanic Represenatives and Senators. Relations with France and England are very strained over some Mexican debts, the US tarriff and the growing maritime competition.
- In Central America and mexico the Freedmen in Nicarauga and Taumalipas are slowly removing the Anglos and Hispanics who had dominated the government and economy. Economically the Anglos/Hispanics will remain dominant for another 25 years but politically they are eased out of power in the next 10 years.
-Ethiopia falls to draka in a brutal war.
1876- After a blast of carnage in which several American Indian tribes are completely wiped out, the remainder surrender to the Army (in preference to the more bloodthirsty civilians and militias) and meekly return to their reservations. The intervention of the federal government, particularly in the form of the Army, is instrumental in stopping the clashes between the tribes and territorial militias. The Indian Massacres — however you interpret the name — are over, but this horrific episode in American history, coming so soon after the anarchy in the slave states, colors the national psyche from then on. The United States basically turns inward in shock, to peacefully develop their frontiers and rebuild the former slave states. Decision made to reduce the size of all stars on the USA state flag so more can fit without changing the proportions of the bars; it will be seen with the next admittance of new states. "Century of Progress" exposition held in Saint Louis, Missouri; first serious proposal to move USA national capital to Saint Louis or another more central location than District of Columbia.
- Lincoln is re-elected president of the United States. America retreats into isolationism. Juarez becomes hugely influenced by the writings of Joseph Bennick, Henry David Thoreau, and Philip Wong. Bennick's works The American Dream, Landscapes and Vistas, and American Naturalism argued for the establishment of huge national preserves modeled after the ones in Maine. He was a great proponent of Evolution and his writings make the teaching of Evolution popular throughout the nation. Thoreau, often called "America's Conscience", followed upon the works of Emerson arguing against organized religion and for personal enlightenment. His works Every Man a Prophet and Disciples of Humanitycaused outrage in the Church but became popular with the nation's poor and those that had witnessed war in the name of religion. The third great writer to influence the Lincoln presidency was, Philip Hamilton Wong. He wrote only one book, American Industry. In it he called for good relations between Labor and Capital. He promoted labor owned industry and called upon the government to act as referee to ensure that Labor and Capital remained in balance.
-Vast public work projects such as rail lines, city parks, and nature preserves hold America's attention as they were constructed.
-Draka begins a program to create a sea in the Chott Melrhir part of Algeria by building a canal. The canal is finished by 1885. Draka also puts harsh controls on the local's agricultural practices. THe flooding of the depression and the controls lead to a fertile greener algeria.
-Edison invents the Serger and a working twin-tub washing machine.
-A rather ridiculous book entitled "The Elders of the Seven Hills" is put out (in part by some rather determined anti-Catholic Agents of the English Secret Service). It purports to be a record of the meetings and plans of various Catholic leaders in their plot to take over the world and crush other religions.
1878- heavy immigration of jews and into the US follows pogroms and strife (1878-1898 over 3 million). This will result in the 2nd major US musical movement in the early 20th century (besides Jazz) and based on sort of Slavic-American-Jewish fusion called Dulcer.
-a new Senator from Nicarauga arrives - his name is Williams, he is not even slightly Hispanic (son of former Alabama slaves), and he's black as the ace of spades. The Senate votes not to seat him, citing Article I, Section 5, "Each House shall be the judge of the elections... and qualifications of its members." Nicarauga sues to have Williams seated under Article V, "no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate."
-US enacts first peacetime federal income tax.
1879-britain decide to make india into a more willing market for goods and an industrial producer. The british authorities begin establishing mandatory education to get more of the indians to learn english
1880–89: Autosteamers achieve popularity as vehicles of the wealthy, especially in the Free Republic of Draka now that closed-cycle systems are perfected. Refrigeration, including central air conditioning and then smaller portable units, developed as a variant application of compressors. Solar power systems are developed for small-scale water heating and electric power generation. Single-barrel machine guns, flame-throwers, land mines, poison gas, and submarines are developed but not yet used in battle.
- Austro–German alliance with Ottoman Empire, construction of Berlin–Baghdad railway. Motion pictures developed. Steam turbine introduced for railroad engines. Antiseptic surgery and development of anesthetics, after the numerous amputations and preventable deaths of the Anglo–Russian War. Panama Canal completed.
- The U.S. Congress passes the National Military Reform Act and the Military Education Act (similar to OTL Montgomery G.I. Bill).
-American Indians petition US federal government to have their reservations and Indian territories administered at the federal level, rather than considered parts of states. The Indians regard the federal government and Army as
their protector, and the states and territories as the source of the militias that were their strongest foes. Only several small areas in states east of the Mississippi become "Federal Indian Territories", most of them are created in the western lands still not yet states. Hashing out the boundaries keeps remaining territories in the American West from statehood for several years. Many of the indian tribes began to learn and adopt white culture and tooking up farming, ranching, trading in buffalo products, and limited mining and industry. The population of the tribes begins to increase due to the end of the massacres.. Indian tribes are recognized as sovereign dependencies of the United States with all Indians having dual citizenship.
-Free population of FRD is growing more slowly than serf population, leading to several bloody attempted slave revolts and the imposition of the harshest measures yet for control. Settlement Directorate raises childbearing requirement for plantation Landholders to 4 new or pre-existing acknowledged free births in first 10 years. Provincial Assembly authorizes increasing Citizen stipend for each additional free child to encourage free marriages and population growth, as acceptable immigrants have decreased greatly. Rise in popularity of impaling (inspired by the Ottomans) and use of crude flame-throwers or poison gas on rioting serfs. Uprisings in Kongo Province lead to large-scale deportations to destructive labor camps in addition to the usual measures. Brotherhood of the Lash encourages educational opportunities commensurate only with increasing responsibilities of serfs, leading to mostly illiterate plantation field hands and industrial machine tenders. Backlash to widespread international condemnation of these measures is the genesis of the Militarist philosophy in the FRD. Nearby egyptian territories attract many escaping serfs. Several large water diversion and hydroelectric projects begun.
-The ottoman empire begins taking steps to eliminate bedouin and begins planting plants to try to make the deserts green. The USA begins following suit in the southwest with planting trees and plants in various areas where they fit.
-Regular dirigible service on several continents. American autosteamer production surpasses Dominations' as the limited market in the Domination is saturated by their high-quality goods, and American inventors and entrepreneurs have pulled down the cost of production to make less-sturdy products more affordable for their middle class. Continuing Drakan emphasis on an extensive military-industrial application yet. Semi-automatic pistols developed. Tolgren model 1890 "automatic" pistol issued in large numbers to Citizens as standard sidearm.
-In England a series of repressive measures for Ireland are passed. They are intentionally designed to drive the Irish Catholic Population out of the Island. In the Northern Counties they work well. Most of exodus winds up in US Northern Industrial Cities (where it is popularly called the Second Sorrows - the first being the Potato famine/immigration of the 1840s).
-A federal anti-lynching law is passed by the USA's government in response to race rioting in some southern states.
-Brazil begins to get more equal treatment from the great powers due to its industrialization and its size. Brazil continues industrializing.
1880-In America the results of the slaver exodus continue to spread throughout society. The militia system is abolished. The most dramatic immediate impact is the creation of a large standing army with an extensive reserve system. Conscription instituted in the USA. The US will eventually have a professional army of over 1 million with another 4 million in reserves.
The Navy also will dramatically expand with the construction of larger battleships and cruisers. Interestingly the American Navy becomes enamoured with submarine technology and institutes a number of test bed sub platforms. This early most are deathtraps, with no range beyond coastal attacks. The increased naval and army spending means a larger US government, more taxes and more government intereference in the economy. Another interesting impact is the passage of the Federal Trade Union Commission. The US recognizes and regulates industrial unions that are operating in the US armaments industry. These eventually spread from their base in the Northeast to the Central and Western US.
-Edison invents the Serger and a working twin-tub washing machine.
1882- Security Directorate given arrest powers for all but high-ranking politicians (Senatorial immunity) and Citizens currently serving the Republic outside the Police Zone (mostly War Directorate personnel in battle). Karl von Shrakenberg born.
-US railroads introduce railroad time, dividing the US into the Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific time zones.
-In Europe a new type of anarchism (called Millism and in part based on John Stuart Mill's books) is gaining ground. Not at first overtly violent the Millist none the less are disruptive to society as they attempt to breakdown national governments (eventually by terror).
-Spanish declared a secondary official language of the USA, but the English version of any government document has precedence. This is provoked by an embarrassing incident in Chihuahua City when reading aloud a faulty translation of the Constitution on the occasion of statehood. The status of both languages leads to schools teaching spanish as the same level
-Guarana cultivation introduced into Cuba,mexico and in Australia's batavia province.
-The first Labor Party candidates are elected to the American House of Representatives from Ohio and Massachusetts.
-Drakon-French war as superior drakon troops march north and take all of french africa in a brutal offensive involving thousand dirigible raids. After losing africa the french redouble their settlement and assimilation programs for their other colonies.
1883- In continuing efforts to include the Hispanics (commonly still called Mexicans) in the USA, and better reflect the westward movement of America, further serious proposals have been made since 1876 to move the national capital from New York city. to a more central location. Geographically, the center of the continental part of the nation is now in northern Texas or the Indian terretory. However, the best proposals are for somewhere along the Rio Grande, although not where the Mexicans were severely beaten; the best candidates are Laredo and El Paso, which both have "twin cities" across the river.
-the artifical fiber, Rayon is invented which will result in changes down the line in terms of fashion. Rayon will lead to cheaper clothes which means that the middle class can afford to change their wardrobe more.
-Women's suffrage is granted in the USA.
-beginning of a large wave of immigration from the ottoman empire/north africa to the USA/south america. The later results of this include the formation of arabs as another culture with its own parts of big cities with "little araby" along with "little italy" type communities in big cities. This causes the beginning of a slow backlash of anti-immigrant sentiment.
-the UK and draka split the sudan.
1884-beginning of equal rights movements for blacks in southern states. The movement unlike OTL's civil rights focuses more on economic equality first then social equality later. The results of this are earlier white acceptance of black social equality and the beginnings of intermarriage between blacks and whites. This equal rights movement also causes a greater acceptance of nonwhites as being americans.indio/mestizo equal rights movement to appear.
-Almost 360 years after the conquest of the Incas, the mountain retreat of Machu Picchu is found
-Shaka Zulu leads a revolt in the densely settled province of natalia that is only supressed after poison gas and machine guns are used. This quells reformist settlement in the drakan nation for a few decades.
-Catholic priests are allowed to preach to serfs, after careful selection and training by the Domination.
-Beginning of major triumps of civil rights movements as northern states remove anti-black laws, virginia, west virginia, tenesee, arkansas, cuba, coahuila and much of the upper south grant civil rights. The lower south takes until the 1890's to grant civil rights and voting rights.
-US Armies reorganizes into a general staff system. Geographical commands are abandoned in favor of more general ones, ex. "First Army".
1885-Beginning of renovations of the USA's capital district in manhatten.
1887-The Peon and Freeman Burea has been transformed into the Federal Education and Support Department. It has created a series (particularly in old Mexico and the West) of Schools that operate alongside the traditional state schools. With the South reforming from slavery the idea of state's rights seems to be dying.
1888: First transatlantic flight, by a french dirigible from Apollonaris (Dakar, Senegal) to Recife in Brazil.
-Kaiser Frederick III begins his reign without any problems, his son Wilhem dies of an autosteamer accident.
-Kimonos and shalwar suits begin to rise in populairty in the western nations due to easier making of them.
-In another landmark decision the Supreme Court declares that Corporations are artificial entities, not citizens. (the Opposite of our TL see - Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad). Heavy regulation of corporations soon follows.
-The US annexes Samoan islands. The powerful US Pacific Fleet convinces the competing Germans not to force the issue.
1889-slavery outlawed in Brazil. 100,000 slaveowners move to Draka.
-The USN continues to grow as the RN and USN compete to build battleships. Initially many are the sideturret type (a la USS Maine) but in a dramatic step the US builds the first multi-turrent ship (based on a cross of the more advanced monitor classes of the 1870s), the USS Jackson (henceforth the term Jackson will be interchangable with large modern battleship, like
Dreadnought in our TL). The Americans also continue to experiment with submarines, but until a decent gas or deisel engine is developed subs are basically crippled. Still the US does pioneer some inovative techniques.
-the secret ballot and cross-endoresement adopted as further electoral reforms.
-the USA begins a program of national consrcription to "gain a place in the sun".
1890-US government calls the Western frontier closed, but it also says the Northern and southern frontiers are still open.
1891-President Burnside(who had made his fortune in arms manufacturing and Rail Roads) opens talks with the UK about a new relationship. Heavy US investment in arms research, several quasi-industrial labs are established to develop new weapons.
-first immigration restrictions enacted as restrictions of irish, russians and arab immigration to the United States. The excluded immigrants go to greater paraguay.
-small single dwelling central air conditioners are developed.
1893-elements of the former Mexican flag are inserted in the blue bar of the USA state flag. The Mexican and former Spanish states call in enough favors to get the eagle and snake from the former Mexican Republic onto the US flag.
-At the US Socialist convention the Communist wing of the party is expelled in favor of the more moderate socialist. Many of the Communist are recent German and Russian immigrants. The move actually strenghtens the party as it is seen now as more American.
-radio first invented by an obscure american inventor.
-the Drakan government begins taking steps towards converting the serfs from being simply serfs to being more of the powerless majority. This marks the drakan transformation into more of a totalitarian society.
1894- Libyan oil fields discovered by British teams drilling for water. Automatic submachine gun developed by Technical Section of War Directorate; immediately issued to Security Directorate forces for riot control in the form of the Machine Pistol Mk. I. Cascadia (Washington),Michoacan, Dakota (North and South Dakota) and Bighorn (Montana) admitted as states, 3 more stars in white bar of USA state flag.
-Beginning of Andean war as Gran Colombia and Chile declare war on Greater paraguay.
-Col. Samuel Langley, Ordinance Department-US Army flies first heavier-than-air craft.
-The 1894 civil rights act is passed into law. The education reforms and the higher proportion of middle class freeblacks along with the large black population led to reforms being done. The land reform and better eudcation led to literacy tests and other disenfrancisement tricks failing. This law merely codifies in a national manner what was becoming the status quo in the USA.
-The USN continues to grow as the RN and USN compete to build battleships. Initially many are the sideturret type (a la USS Maine) but in a dramatic step the US builds the first multi-turrent ship (based on a cross of the more advanced monitor classes of the 1870s), the USS Jackson (henceforth the term Jackson will be interchangable with large modern battleship, like Dreadnought in our TL). The Americans also continue to experiment with submarines, but until a decent gas or deisel engine is developed subs are basically crippled. Still the US does pioneer some inovative techniques.
1895-In England Millist are working for Women's rights with a growing Sufferage movement (roughly 10 years after the USA passed the Contitutional Amendment giving women the right to vote).
1897-Final surrender of chile and gran colombia and full annexation of those areas.
1899-Chinese–Japanese War; Japan annexes Korea and Formosa. Western powers agree to maintain Chinese mainland ports open to free trade, extracting concessions from the weakening Qing Dynasty.
1900-1914-Amid a growing appreciation by world leaders that the interlocking alliances have led to a delicate Balance of Power that could be disastrously upset, many people believe that this is a true "Golden Age" for mankind. Unfortunately, it ignores the direct exploitation of millions by the Drakans, and the indirect activities in India and China that subjugate even more for the benefit of distant lands. But the march of technology has led to better lives in much of Europe, North America, and the lands of the Drakans, for those who can afford it or were born to it. Greater paraguay, the USA and Draka begin influencing world affairs.
-Naval building race between the United States, United Kingdom and Germany continues.
1900- Renovations on the capital district in manhatten are completed. The capital district is built around a large six-sided Mall. Near it's center a large brass statue of George Wahington on his horse is set up. This becomes the Blackmoor Memorial. Farther down the mall the Liberty Wall is erected with the names of martyrs to the cause of liberty. The National Arch is built out of stone from all around the nation. At the other end of the Mall a large Asian Garden is placed and beyond that is the International Trade Pavilion (a large building built in the oriental style). The President's Residence is built as an octagon house in Italianate style. The Congressional Hall is a large building built in the Italinate style. Work also begins on Fulton Station, a large train station, and several blocks of brick townhouses.
-A map of Egypt shows in the Delta large areas where up to 65% of the place names are European type and some Hindi, and some names in Ancient Egyptian by scholarly people who treated it as the right language for the area. As OTL, Egypt has its own aircraft factory near Helwan - but the suburb round the factory is called Vimananagar and no name in the language of the religion of the Prophet; its borough limits signa are in the Roman alphabet and Devanagari and hieroglyphics but not Arabic. Helwan is still called Helwan, despite two attempts by some of its inhabitants to get rid of the apparent reference to Hell and rename the town Bletchley after the town or origin of the first white settlers in the area.
-Reform and modernization programs in China, in progress slowly over the past decade, are expanded to include a significantly enhanced education system based on western ideas, and a program of light industry and railway construction.
-Draka begins taking steps to make industry an important part of its economy. the measures taken including moving from an agricultual to industrial society by reminvg limits on mechanizing farms.
-Sweeping social, economic reforms in US. National Social Insurance Act establishes national pension, medical insurance scheme. Minimum Wage Act, Factory Safety Act, National Labor Act passed. Department of social welfare established. These are all part of president Bryan's populist influenced democrat party reforms.
-the state of jefferson in part of southern oregon and far northern california admitted.
-In the US the USN deploys a practical short range submarine. It is slow, can't dive very deep, is underpowered and plagued with technical difficulties, but it is 10 years ahead of any other nations technology.
-Anglo-American alliance treaty signed. The first application of this is in the first world war where American troops join in from day one.
1901- Citizen women declared liable for wartime conscription into combat positions in the Domination, but training
is still segregated. Yucatan and Panama admitted as states. Guam, American Samoa and Wake Island annexed as US possessions.
-the constitution amendmended to remove the requiorements for the militia service before voting in federal electiosn but the states are allowed to retain it for their elections.
-17th Amendment empowers Federal government to regulate industry.
-Child labor banned in the USA by federal law. This comes on the heels on the national closed shop and other labor reforms. A nationwide scheme of federal workshops to provide work for the unemployed is established. The department of social welfare is building public housing in every large city and is engaged in a major slum-clearance project. In rural areas, the Social Wefare Department has begun a program of distributing high-quality, but inexpensive, prefabricated housing units to replace shanties and other unsanitary dwellings.
-the indonesian revolt as millions of indonesians revolt in a 5 year rebellion ending with 5 million dead.
1903-Pope Innocent XI convenes a Vatican council. In a dramatic step he pushes for mass to be said in the venacular and several other reforms. Some small number of Catholics (Radical/Reactionary) split from the Church, but by and large thereforms are well received. Innocent also opens a dialog with various Jewish leaders and orders an Papal investigation of anti-semitism inside the Church.
-Bank of the USA established with branches in many states.
-Shalwar suits become popularized articles of clothing.
1905-Television first developed. It stays as a curiosity until about 1910 or so when the first regional TV network is developed in the USA. TV remains the preserve of the wealthy for several years.
-the supreme courts rules that primary elections and giving candidacy official status violated freedom of association.
-The Colorado floods the Salton Sink area. The new route is encouraged by settlers there (in spite of having to move the town of Jade to higher ground), and by 1909 the Widney Sea level stabilizes. The local climate ameliates somewhat, and agriculture begins to bloom in the area. Tourism also becomes a big money item at the resorts built on the Salton shores.
-18th Amendment guarantees workers right to organize in America. This is passed despite republican protest.
1907- For no particular reason, a Irish chemist accidently discovers LSD(it's psychoactive effects aren't discovered until WWI, however)
1908–09- Japan becomes bogged down in a war in Manchuria. Russian intervention is defeated, both on land and at sea. First battleships sunk by aerial bombardment. The abysmal performance of the Russian armed forces, combined with social unrest, leads to a revolution in Russia. A true constitutional monarchy is established under Tsar Alykzandr IV, and several noted Westernizers are established in top government positions. A Communist group in St. Petersburg incites an armed uprising a little too late, and is crushed and rooted out by loyal troops and the Tsar's secret police. Qing Dynasty continues in China, but with a council of military leaders (warlords) the real power behind the throne.
-beginning of british conquest of afghanistan. The war takes over 10 years but afghanistan is conquered with major resitatnace crushed. Poison gas used in afghanistan.
-Rumors of mass graves in ireland and later pictures of them begin to show up.
-The United States Army Air Corps becomes a large wing of the army devoted to using the current air technology. An american air force is establsihed. A Strong zepplin air merchant marine is attached to the navy.
1910-1914-technological advances in this era include Artificial rubber Advanced antibiotics (needed against the subtropical environments the Drakon/American settlers met while consolidating their hold on the tropical parts of the lands they rule). Television (in addition to advanced monitoring techniques through two-way televised transmissions...),Fuel efficient internal combustion engines (lessening the need for petroleum so the military can use more with less need for rationing.)
-Britain begins industrializing india.
-Greater paraguy move up to the ranks of the first world nations. It is following brazil's lead in becoming moderanized.
-W.R. Hearst's media empire broken up with some taken over by thegovernment. The parts nationalized become the American broadcasing service(ABS). Several newspapers are also taken over the government. the ABS is the first and so far only nationwide radio/TV broadcaster.
-the mesoamerican sport bodyball becomes popular in America as the cultural effects of mexicans and blacks moving north in previous decades has shown.
-In China the Catholic missionaries have been very successful. They have also been rather casual about Church rites, allowing a type of ancestor worship to continue along with many other traditional practices. The bulk of the Urban population (less
than 5% of total) is now Catholic and a significant number of the rural peoples are converting. In part this is also driven by a tax manumssion for any new convert.
-The USN has also begun a series of experiments with aircraft, carriers and long range submarines. The RN has also adopted aircraft and carriers but is little interested in subs.
-Russia begins an attempt to move population and industry to new lands east of the urals.
1909- Slave rebellion in domination crushed with 1 million dead and usage of poison gas.
-Qat cultivation began in mexico after a defector from Draka explains the profitability of quat and its effects and brings some over. Qat reaches north of the rio grande in the 20's and most states ban it in some form.
-the USA gets the south american countries to join it in an alliance. The alliance isn't a simple USA/(insert nation) alliance, it is an alliance of all of the nations concerned.
1912-Theodore Roosevelt elected president.
-Germany adopts a more militarized national school system, a symptom of the rise of Prussian/Militarist influence in German government. Germany adops a program of "National training"(think a combo of boot camp and physical education) based on the one set up in draka
1913-President Roosevelt has decided to fund a large scale investment in Rail lines (both light and heavy). The Interstate Rail line project also entails a massive investment in light rail lines inside cities. Heavy government subsidies are created for construction of industrial lines.
-beginning of development boom in the carribean and coastal mexican states
