Two Americas after the Revolution

I don't know how posible it is but could the rebelling British Colonies who gained their independance throught the American Revolutionary War be split into two different nations in the aftermatch of that conflict instead of becoming one?
 
Technically, the 1783 Treaty of Paris, within which Britain recognized the independence of the 'United States', the British government recognized the individual independence of all 13 colonies - now free and sovereign states. I don't quite think that two new nations could be formed immediately upon independence, but probably by 1800.
 
I don't know how posible it is but could the rebelling British Colonies who gained their independance throught the American Revolutionary War be split into two different nations in the aftermatch of that conflict instead of becoming one?

It's possible. Have some of the southern states walk out of the Constitutional Convention over the issue of slavery.
 
It's possible. Have some of the southern states walk out of the Constitutional Convention over the issue of slavery.
Or Conversely, Have Some of The Northern States Walk out Over The Exact Implementation of The 3/5ths Clause ...

Way Back in The Ninth Grade, I Represented South Carolina in a Mock Constitutional Convention in My Geopolitical Studies Class; Using The Slightly Anachronistic John C. Calhoun as My Model, I then Proceeded to SO Offend My Classmates that Five People Threatened to Quit in Protest ...

I Still Consider that Moment to Be a Personal Best!
 
Or Conversely, Have Some of The Northern States Walk out Over The Exact Implementation of The 3/5ths Clause ...

Way Back in The Ninth Grade, I Represented South Carolina in a Mock Constitutional Convention in My Geopolitical Studies Class; Using The Slightly Anachronistic John C. Calhoun as My Model, I then Proceeded to SO Offend My Classmates that Five People Threatened to Quit in Protest ...

I Still Consider that Moment to Be a Personal Best!

That must have been interesting.
 
Read For want of a nail, up until a company making a nuclear weapon it is pretty good. It also works as a good example for what can occur after the revolution is won. The more radicals would move south, or west, while the conservative factions stay in the Northeast.

The walk out is a good idea. I had a similar experince in university. We all had to argue the points for our state as to why we should join the United States, and ratify the constitution, but the instructor at the same time wanted us to get the best position possible for our state. Anything from Virginia having the military, to New York not having to have elections with in it's state.

So my idea was simply to create a new nation, centered around Rhode Island. I hoped people would throw options out to keep me in, but it was the opposite. Out of the 12 other groups, I got four to join me an we set up the New England Confederation, where each state got a single vote, and interestingly enough South Carolina and Georgia created their own constitution as well so that agriculture would be the only export allowed to be regulated by the government.
 
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Or Conversely, Have Some of The Northern States Walk out Over The Exact Implementation of The 3/5ths Clause ...

Way Back in The Ninth Grade, I Represented South Carolina in a Mock Constitutional Convention in My Geopolitical Studies Class; Using The Slightly Anachronistic John C. Calhoun as My Model, I then Proceeded to SO Offend My Classmates that Five People Threatened to Quit in Protest ...

I Still Consider that Moment to Be a Personal Best!

What's with the unnecessary capitalization of all these words? It makes it difficult to read.

Interestingly enough, I also represented South Carolina and slavery interests in a mock Constitutional Convention in my college US history class.
 
That must have been interesting.

What's with the unnecessary capitalization of all these words? It makes it difficult to read.

Interestingly enough, I also represented South Carolina and slavery interests in a mock Constitutional Convention in my college US history class.
I Actually Find it Easier to Read this Way ...

As for The Mock Convention, Wasn't it FUN to hafta Think yourself into Such an Odious Viewpoint ...

Living in New Hampshire Made it Very Interesting, as The Only True Minorities in The Area Moved up Here from New York and Especially Boston, So it's an Extremely White State, But we're Just about Integrated Enough to Shame The Rest of us into Behaving Ourselves!

:eek:
 
You guys had awesome US history classes. The only thing my State and Local government class did, group wise, was union negotiations. My iffiness with unions aside, my group was made up of a bunch of complete and total idiots. They seriously wanted the NYPD to be ninjas.

I sat by myself after that.

Topic related, I had an idea where the Connecticut Compromise was never invented. The states couldn't agree on the legislature, got bogged down even further when slavery came up and the convention adjourned without any progress. Once the State legislatures saw that the national government couldn't enforce its laws, Virginia and New York begin competing over the Northwest Territories again. Just as the state militias are about to come to blows, Washington calls representatives from all the states to his home and proposes a plan to divide the country along the Ohio and Potomac rivers, rather than have them go to war with each other.

The South becomes the Confederation of Columbia under the guidance of Thomas Jefferson. The North becomes the Federal Republic of New England with Alexander Hamilton leading the formation of the government.
 
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You guys had awesome US history classes. The only thing my State and Local government class did, group wise, was union negotiations. My iffiness with unions aside, my group was made up of a bunch of complete and total idiots. They seriously wanted the NYPD to be ninjas.

Well, like I said, mine was a college course. Unless yours was, too, in which case the make-up of that class is just sad.
 
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