Deleted member 97083
What if the United States' Manifest Destiny was a little bit more "Russian", and analogous to the Russian eastward expansion?
In this scenario:
There's no specific POD for this scenario, but those are two that I think might work, even if somewhat implausible. The focus is not on the POD, but on the ramifications of a slower somewhat different "Manifest Destiny".
In this scenario:
- Expansion is done by building fortresses along major points, without significant settlement until much later, akin to the Russian Ostrogs in remote areas.
- It's a lot harder to convince settlers to move west, so the expansion would be done by a smaller amount of people. The "Original Northwest" would be settled somewhat later than OTL, but would then become America's "Novosibirsk" on the borderlands of Anglo and native territory.
- When individual Native American tribes are defeated by the US army and cavalry, instead of being relocated or forced to migrate for the most part, they are simply vassalized, retaining much of their territory but becoming an autonomous territory within the Union.
- Penal colonies are set up in North Dakota as an analogue to the Siberian prisons of the Russian Empire.
There's no specific POD for this scenario, but those are two that I think might work, even if somewhat implausible. The focus is not on the POD, but on the ramifications of a slower somewhat different "Manifest Destiny".