TL: The North American Federation (or a very different USA)

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1866

NAF

President of the Federation: Robert Miles (provisional).
Prime Minister: vacant (Council closed).
Members of the Federation (39): Acadia, Alabama, Bermuda, Canada, Carolina, Chesapeake, East Michigan, Erie, Georgia, Hudson, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Labrador, Lakota, Liberia, Lower Louisiana, Manitoba, New England, Newfoundland, North Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward, Rio Grande, Saint Lawrence, Saskatchewan, Seneca, South Columbia, Superior, Tennessee, Upper Louisiana, Upper Missouri, Utah, Virginia, West Michigan, Wilsonia and Yellowstone.
Federal Territories (4): Alaska, Baffinland, Greenland and Inuit.

LRA

President of the Republic: Justo Rufino Menéndez.
Members of the Federation (13): California (part), Coahuila, Colorado, East Cuba, East Haiti, Florida, Mexico, New Spain, Sonora, Texas, West Cuba, West Haiti and Yucatan.

The LRA started a great offensive campaign in California; despite the help offered by the NAF and Spain, the city of Los Angeles finally fell in August. California was fully incorporated to the LRA excepting the Payute province, controlled by the NAF. It was converted into the republic of Paiutah and joined the Federation in October.
The LRA not only gained all California (excepting Paiutah), but also incorporated Jamaica and the republic of Rio Grande during the summer. Once did so, the MLA militias could focus on the New Orléans assault; they considered that connecting Florida with Texas through the New Orléans area was a key factor for their final success in the war.
However, it was not that easy and MLA suffered a lot of casualties.
Political leaders of LPA and ANA argued about how to deal with the war events without any comittment. President Miles forced the emergency government to open the Council again and exhorted both parties to discuss the best ways to solve the problem there...
 
1867

NAF

President of the Federation: Robert Miles (provisional).
Prime Minister: vacant (Council closed).
Members of the Federation (39): Acadia, Alabama, Bermuda, Canada, Carolina, Chesapeake, East Michigan, Erie, Georgia, Hudson, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Labrador, Lakota, Liberia, Lower Louisiana, Manitoba, New England, Newfoundland, North Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Paiutah, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward, Saint Lawrence, Saskatchewan, Seneca, South Columbia, Superior, Tennessee, Upper Louisiana, Upper Missouri, Utah, Virginia, West Michigan, Wilsonia and Yellowstone.
Federal Territories (4): Alaska, Baffinland, Greenland and Inuit.

LRA

President of the Republic: Justo Rufino Menéndez.
Members of the Federation (15): California, Coahuila, Colorado, East Cuba, East Haiti, Florida, Jamaica and Cayman, Mexico, New Spain, Rio Grande, Sonora, Texas, West Cuba, West Haiti and Yucatan.

The MLA militias abandoned the assault of New Orléans and tried to attack Fort Barrancas. They failed, but after that they ransacked neighbouring Liberia and incorporated it later to LRA. Alabama remained divided; the northern part was kept by NAF while the south (including Pensacola) joined the LRA.
The first MLA militias arrived to the suburbs of Saint Louis by mid-June. This alarmed the NAF politicians and some of them fled to New York, after President Miles closed the Council again, exhausted by the internal wars between LPA and ANA members. For the first time in almost a century, the NAF was really close to collapse.
President Miles resigned in September and Acadian Antoine Bourguet was appointed by Miles himself as his successor. The federal government remained virtually inoperative and every republic tried to survive by themselves. Some LPA politicians advocated for seceding the wealthy northeastern republics and leave the rest to their own fate, but Bourguet established a new emergency government in New York while Saint Louis had become unsafe, and committed a lot of patriots for a fierce counter-attack against the MLA militias.
Anyway, New Orléans succumbed at the end of the year, resulting in NAF losing all their accesses to the Mexican Gulf...
 
North America in 1868

In yellow, territories administered by self-proclaimed LRA.

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This story is great!! I want more!

I'm actually origially from OTL Louisiana (ATL Lower Louisiana) and that's what got my attention. :) Keep up the good work :D
 
This story is great!! I want more!

I'm actually origially from OTL Louisiana (ATL Lower Louisiana) and that's what got my attention. :) Keep up the good work :D

Thank you MarieAntoinette :)

I will resume this timeline shortly; during these last weeks, I have been very busy for keep on updating it, but now I'm just planning the upcoming developments :D

Thanks for reading it!
 
1868

NAF

President of the Federation: Antoine Bourguet (provisional).
Prime Minister: vacant (Council closed).
Members of the Federation (37): Acadia, Alabama (only north), Bermuda, Canada, Carolina, Chesapeake, East Michigan, Erie, Georgia, Hudson, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Labrador, Lakota, Manitoba, New England, Newfoundland, North Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Paiutah, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward, Saint Lawrence, Saskatchewan, Seneca, South Columbia, Superior, Tennessee, Upper Louisiana, Upper Missouri, Utah, Virginia, West Michigan, Wilsonia and Yellowstone.
Federal Territories (4): Alaska, Baffinland, Greenland and Inuit.

LRA

President of the Republic: Justo Rufino Menéndez.
Members of the Federation (19): California, Coahuila, Colorado, East Cuba, East Haiti, Florida, Jamaica and Cayman, Liberia, Lower Louisiana, Mexico, New Spain, New Texas, Rio Grande, Sonora, South Alabama, Texas, West Cuba, West Haiti and Yucatan.

Due to the dramatic developments, the NAF government also suspended the 1868 Federal Elections, and both ANA and LPA were disbanded, forming smaller and unstable local parties, as long as federal politics became inexistent.
In the LRA, the storming success in the war started to be eclipsed by raising conflicts between the different MLA branches. During the year, the MLA militias were involved in fights between them that put the Libertarian Republic into a great risk of unstability. President Menéndez realized that they could not win the war under these conditions and that, sooner or later, NAF would be able to counter-attack with great chances of success.
So, in a very bold move, Menéndez called NAF President Bourguet for a meeting in New Orléans set by the late days of October. Bourguet refused, but one of his ministers, Gabriel Reyes, appointed himself to attend the meeting with authorization for engaging in any eventual agreement.
The exact date of the meeting were never known, as it was top secret, as well as the exact agreements reached there. The only clear point was the aim of both sides to end the war in an acceptable way for both. After some weeks of deliberations and secret contacts, both governments announced an important convention to be set in New Orléans by mid-February where delegations of NAF and LRA will discuss the aftermath of the war.
Following this events, a mutually agreed ceasefire was enforced, starting on December 31st...
 
Interesting developments - does the LRA have much to do with traditional Libertarian ideology?

Kind of cool to see Virginia keeping pace with Hudson, Pennsylvania and other OTL heavyweights. I imagine once immigration and industrialization kick into full swing, that will only be even more so given the massive land and resources at the state's disposal.
 
Interesting developments - does the LRA have much to do with traditional Libertarian ideology?

Kind of cool to see Virginia keeping pace with Hudson, Pennsylvania and other OTL heavyweights. I imagine once immigration and industrialization kick into full swing, that will only be even more so given the massive land and resources at the state's disposal.

Good question.

Libertarians opposed any kind of authority to some extent, but as long as this movement was born in the Kingdom of Mexico (in this TL), it was mostly a movement that supported peasantry in front of the traditional oligarchy, refusing state violence and opression.

In fact, as you will see in upcoming chapters, this movement will evolve in Labour parties by one side and modern Liberal ones by another, so do not conceive Libertarians as typical Libertarians from OTL 19th century.
 
1869

NAF

President of the Federation: Antoine Bourguet (provisional).
Prime Minister: vacant (Council closed).
Members of the Federation (37): Acadia, Alabama (only north), Bermuda, Canada, Carolina, Chesapeake, East Michigan, Erie, Georgia, Hudson, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Labrador, Lakota, Manitoba, New England, Newfoundland, North Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Paiutah, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward, Saint Lawrence, Saskatchewan, Seneca, South Columbia, Superior, Tennessee, Upper Louisiana, Upper Missouri, Utah, Virginia, West Michigan, Wilsonia and Yellowstone.
Federal Territories (4): Alaska, Baffinland, Greenland and Inuit.

LRA

President of the Republic: Justo Rufino Menéndez.
Members of the Federation (19): California, Coahuila, Colorado, East Cuba, East Haiti, Florida, Jamaica and Cayman, Liberia, Lower Louisiana, Mexico, New Spain, New Texas, Rio Grande, Sonora, South Alabama, Texas, West Cuba, West Haiti and Yucatan.

The convention of February did not produce any significant agreement, but the ceasefire was extended, awaiting for new negotiations between both sides.
The LRA delegation had proposed to merge both federations in a broader one that would combine the law structure of the former two; the NAF considered this offer pretty unacceptable and they only wanted to return to the previous statu quo, recognizing the LRA as sucessor of the Kingdom of Mexico, with no border changes.
Menéndez thought that the provisional government had a very narrow-minded vision of the situation, so he opted to contact the governors of the most important NAF republics at the moment, Lousianas aside: Pennsylvania, Virginia, Hudson, Erie and Illinois.
The LRA held territories with interesting resources for the Northeastern industries, so these republics were economically interested in such agreement: they will gain easy access to important resources for their industries while the southern territories will obtain help for the development of transport and other necessary public structures.
But merging the two federations would cause the Francophones to become the third community, as Hispanics would outnumber them. The LRA ensured to Illinois that the resulting federation would reinforce the protection of cultural and ethnic minorities.
The NAF council re-opened in May and many counselors pledged the government to accept the offer from LRA, but Bourguet vetoed it. In an alleged conspiracy, Gabriel Reyes, the head of the NAF delegation that was in talks with LRA and strong supporter of the merge, ordered two men to kill Bourguet while he was sleeping at his home.
The crime was contested in a series of riots organized by Bourguet's supporters, but Reyes, self-appointed as new President with the approval of the northeastern governors and counselors, simply let the LRA forces to enter Saint Louis in June, massacring the protesters afterwards.
Saint Louis suffered the consented occupation of LRA, with many of its population escaping to the North; the city would not recover from this episode and was downgraded from capital of the federation: previous contacts between Reyes and Menéndez had produced the determination to establish the new capital in New Orléans, better communicated with the new southern territories than inner Saint Louis.
The peace between LRA and NAF was officially set by the Treaty of New Orléans on December 2nd, with a new provisional government for both federations, with Reyes as President and Menéndez as Vice-President...
 
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The Treaty of New Orlénas (1869)

This Treaty put an end to the Libertarian War, and started a true new era for the NAF.

The Treaty was signed by the provisional government of the NAF by one side, and by the LRA officers by the other. As long as the LRA was not recognized by the NAF, the LRA appointed 19 representatives that signed the Treaty in representation of the 19 republics that composed the LRA.

The terms of the Treaty were basically the following ones:

- The NAF admits the 19 LRA republics as new members. As LRA was not recognized by any sovereign state in the world, the best way of merging was including all their republics in a reformed NAF.
- The MLA will be accepted as a legal party.
- The President will be assessed by a Vice-President elected by these 19 republics during a term of 50 years. This somehow weird agreement wanted to ensure that future Presidents will not ignore the political and economical situation of these 19 republics.
- President and Vice-President will be elected in a separated way than the Council, just like former NAF.
- A new Constitution should be written by 1872.
- Federal Territories will be abolished. MLA imposed its view that every territory should be granted with the same degree of self-government.
- New treaties with Spain and the UK would be seeked for granting that new borders will be respected.
 
1870

President of the Federation: Gabriel Reyes (provisional).
Vice-President: Justo Rufino Menéndez (provisional).
Members of the Federation: pending on new Constitution.

Redaction of the new Constitution started immediately, but Reyes and Menéndez wanted that republics were re-organized before approving the new supreme law, in order to have them ready for the time their assemblies were required to pass the new Constitution.
So, the government held a permanent convention in New Orléans for rearranging the territorial borders and adapt it to the new situation.
After three months of negotiations, the convention sent its proposal back to the provisional government to be ratified; Reyes signed it in late November and it was enforced starting on the first day of 1871.

The new territorial order featured the following changes:

- Yellowstone received the southern districts of Wilsonia.
- Manitoba was expanded again northwards, but without reaching the Hudson Bay.
- Borders of Superior and Canada were also rearranged.
- Former Kansas was divided into three new republics: Kansas proper, New Texas (who had joined the LRA during the war) and Cheyenne.
- Former Free California was divided into four republics (one per former province): Paiutah (annexed by NAF during the war), Upper California, Lower California and Las Vegas (renamed Mojave).
- Sonora was enlarged westwards.
- Lower Louisiana received some districts from east Texas.
- The two Alabamas reunified.
- Coahuila was enlarged up to the coast (annexed the former Mexican province of Coahuila Marítima).
- Former Mexico was divided into five republics (following LRA military districts): Mexico proper, Jalisco, Guerrero, Oaxaca and La Llave.
- Yucatan was divided and the southern area was reformed as republic of Chiapas.
- The former Federal Territories of the north were all upgraded to republics.

Other proposed changes that did not proceed to be ratified were the division of New Spain and the merge of the two Columbias.

Meanwhile, the MLA militias were integrated into the Federal Army and they started to pacify several cities where anti-government riots were still raging...
 
This TL looks great (I'm a big fan of Pan-Americanism). There's just one thing that keeps confusing me: What happened with slavery? It seems to have been banned from the beginning, but how did anyone convince the slaveowners to go along with this?
 
This TL looks great (I'm a big fan of Pan-Americanism). There's just one thing that keeps confusing me: What happened with slavery? It seems to have been banned from the beginning, but how did anyone convince the slaveowners to go along with this?

Thanks for reading, especially now that this TL is on a break until I plan how it will develop for the period 1871-1920 (coming soon) :D

About slavery: in this TL, as you said, slavery is forbidden since the very beginning of the NAF (1780). In this case, NAF was born upon a revolt in the Louisianas, when slavery was not that important there as it was later in OTL.
At first, Louisianian rebels were supported by freed slaves as well as by some Indian tribes, so when NAF was proclaimed, these two groups were granted with some civil rights that they would not gain in OTL for more than a century. Of course, slavery was abolished (it was not that economically relevant at that point, as few plantations existed there then).
Later, when the Louisianas attacked the British colonies, where slavery was more widespread, the Louisianian militias used the method of freeing slaves for helping them against their former owners. As explained here, many of the planters in the South were killed or had to flee to the North, and their plantations were dismantled. So, in this case, there was no need of a political effort to convince them :D
 
In my opinion when the Civil War begins you should have the Federalists(The Liberals supporting the Federation) make a deal with Prince Phillippe Count of Paris where in which Philippe becomes Emperor Philip of North America in exchange for an alliance with France and Austria.
These is could be the flags:
The Royal Banner: http://i.imgur.com/wWdgB3K.jpg

The National Flag: http://i.imgur.com/HoPQefC.jpg

The Civil Flag: http://i.imgur.com/InHjLEi.jpg

The Imperial Flag: http://i.imgur.com/eFlpNlV.jpg

The Imperial Coat of Arms: http://i.imgur.com/iOArmbh.jpg

(You might have to copy the link)
 
In my opinion when the Civil War begins you should have the Federalists(The Liberals supporting the Federation) make a deal with Prince Phillippe Count of Paris where in which Philippe becomes Emperor Philip of North America in exchange for an alliance with France and Austria.
These is could be the flags:
The Royal Banner: http://i.imgur.com/wWdgB3K.jpg

The National Flag: http://i.imgur.com/HoPQefC.jpg

The Civil Flag: http://i.imgur.com/InHjLEi.jpg

The Imperial Flag: http://i.imgur.com/eFlpNlV.jpg

The Imperial Coat of Arms: http://i.imgur.com/iOArmbh.jpg

(You might have to copy the link)

If you'd like to take this idea and run with it, make a new thread, don't revive a long-dead one.
 
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