Disunited States of America... Washington died

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Banned
1868/1869

General Lee occupies Chicago and has detachments throughout Illinois, Saratoga, and Polypotamia counties; in a divide and conquer strategy the three counties are subdivided into many more counties, but this puts a strain on his army as the VA govt has declared that he must assign his army as the county constables and this stretches his forces out very thin. Lee's forces are continuing to get harassment from both sides and casualties mount as Lee's forces begin to defend themselves from rocks and sticks and they begin to be on edge as they receive false complaints that require them to perform the duties of the local police and sheriff which they feel waste their time.

Anti-slavery organizations continue to press US Grant to intervene but McClellan will not allow it.
 

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Banned
1870/1871

Pennsylvania makes it crime for bounty hunters to retrieve runaway slaves, makes free blacks full citizens with all legal constitutional rights, and gives automatic freedom to any former slave that makes it to PA.

South Improvement Company and John D. Rockefeller collude between the railroads and refiners on a rebate for Rockefeller's oil interests. NY oil interests get Iroquois to protest and war between Iroquois and PA is averted when PA passes the first anti-trust legislation making it illegal to "collude in an attempt to influence the market in restraint of free trade".

The violence in Virginia spreads further into all the Kentucky counties and the western section of "old Virginia" begin to see violence as well. Families and neighbors begin to fight and use slavery as a reason to be more militant over various slights and insults. One becomes quite famous- the Hatfields and McCoys. Lee is overwhelmed and stretched on his side of the Ohio River and asks for more army forces to be given to being deployed in Kentucky and the Charleston/Wheeling areas. There are no centralized leaders or armies to fight, and Lee has trouble organizing his army as a national police force as Virginia's legislature wants it handled. He resigns his commission rather than continue to be a glorified sheriff. Jackson takes over, and as he is more sympathetic to slavery than Lee, he quietly begins to have his men look the other way to pro-slavery vandalism and violence while cracking down on the anti-slavery forces.
 

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Banned
1872/1873

Barb wire, which had been invented in Pennsylvania in 1867 by Lucien Smith is promoted in Illinois by Joseph Glidden and Henry Rose. Originally for holding in cattle and protecting cropland from animals, it begins to be used to protect growing primitive militia fortifications. Jackson's actions have caused anti-slavery militia to hide out across the borders in PA and Iroquois; Grant gives them aid and comfort, and sends officers to train them in "refugee camps" on the PA side of the border. Jackson in late 1873 sends the first of many cross border raids to these refugee camps.
 

Danishbro

Okay, starting back in 1815!

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Danishbro

Welcome Texas in 1835! (I never put in 'Freedoinia' becomes it borders were never really mentioned, and as far as I can tell it lasted less than a year)

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Banned
Only thing I would change would be the last map, I believe everything you have colored as part of Texas west of the Rio Grande in New Mexico and Arizona should be claimed as part of Deseret instead, probably as outlined claimed since I would say most of it would be actually settled by Native Americans. And I would shift the Virginia/NC border up a row of counties on the west side of the Mississippi to the Rocky Mts, the bootheel of Missouri should be NC along with the Arkansas counties through Oklahoma and Texas panhandle etc.
 

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Banned
1874/1875

Panic and Depression hit the world. Prices deflate. Virginia has a large number of unemployed young unmarried men who don't own land... not a great thing to have when you have roaming bands of militias recruiting and terrorizing. VA passes several laws encouraging western settlements. Forts and railroads constructed, treaties signed with Natives, armies conscripted to man the forts and "pacify" the Native tribes, counties established with constables (some are established while having no White people settled other than the constable himself)

NY and VA while maintaining the condominium of Oregon decide to have north of the Snake and Columbia rivers organized in the fashion of VA counties and independent cities, while south of the rivers organized in Iroquois fashion with relatively weaker counties with strong towns.

Russia abandons Russian America (Alaska). Britain establishes some bases in areas it considers vital to transportation and control of British Columbia and the northern Pacific Ocean. De facto control of Alaska panhandle to British Columbia. While British Columbia has been pressured to join the Canada Confederation for quite some time there has been little reason to join since there is weak or no Russian threat to the north and a weak Iroquois/Virginia presence to the south, they finally do join as Canadian promises of railroad construction to the Pacific is coming true and Canada assumes BC's debt.

MA and Iroquois trading posts and temporary fishing/whaling/crab/salting/drying operations in Alaska pop up. No govt attempt to claim or set up permanent settlements.
 

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Banned
1876/1877

Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia commemorating 100 years of American independence. MA, Iroquois, NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, NC, and SC all showcase their history and industrial/agricultural products. TX also sets up an exhibit, other western American nations (CA, Mojave, Deseret) don't show up. Common history of the original 14 nations (incl. Vermont) of the Revolutionary War, Declaration of Independence, Continental Congress, G. Washington and Ben Franklin, the Join or Die flag, Articles of Confederation, and the failed Constitutional Convention all bring big crowds and reinvigorate the Join or Die movement for closer cooperation of the American nations. Canada's pavilion showcases their successful and orderly large continental spanning nation, orderly populating of their western territories, and how their trans-Canada railroad is going to revolutionize the American continent. More than one person is overheard saying "Imagine how more successful we'd be if we had stayed British as a Dominion of North America".

Denver, Colorado Springs, and other communities along the Rocky Mts have been growing and getting rowdy, causing problems for the isolated Mormon communities further west in the mountains (the western slope of Colorado). Silver is discovered in Deseret lands and Virginia miners begin to pour in not caring about Deseret laws or land grants. Deseret sends militia along with calling in their Ute allies who have more to lose with the influx of rowdy Virginian settlers than they do with the occasional Mormon commune, homesteader, or missionary.

Rutherford Hayes, president of PA and Samuel Tilden, president of Iroquois meet in 1877 to discuss the growing VA civil unrest and cooperation between the countries in order to quiet the growing Join or Die movement.
 

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Banned
1878/1879

Abraham Lincoln dies in NYC. Funeral procession train goes up to Boston, then back south to Philadelphia, then west to Calhoun, VA (OTL Springfield, IL). Differing reactions in different communities in Virginia lead to more violence. Grant and Sherman ignore McClellan's orders of non-intervention. All the PA generals and colonels are getting older and ready for retirement. Stories of military glory of past wars with VA are celebrated and statues of heroes of old are glorified, PA citizens want the glory of expansion... and of course to help the anti-slavery citizens of VA be free men of course.

Grant marches on Calhoun, then pacifies Illinois and Polypotamia then on to occupy Chicago for the winter of 1878/79. Sherman marches on Evansville with the assistance of steamers to gain control of the Ohio River and Saratoga County, VA. He crosses the Ohio and winters in Paducah. In 1879 leaders of Free Black communities, churches across Kentucky meet at Louisville and decide to give their support to the PA invasion and call on a massive raising of a militia and freeing slaves to join. They send message to Sherman.

Sherman sends word back that he encourages slaves to runaway from their masters and that they should destroy what property they can. However, he refuses to coordinate with or incorporate into his army any Black regiments raised. He does agree with the incorporation and granting of land for a black college which he sets aside when he captures Louisville in 1879.

In 1879 Grant captures Hannibal, and then St Louis after a long siege throughout the summer and fall. Mark Twain, recently famous as author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer writes his account of the siege of St Louis after joining Grant's as a non-combatant "journalist".
 

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Banned
1880/1881

In 1880 Grant captures St Charles and Cape Giradeau while a detachment is sent west to occupy Cote Sans Dessien and Columbia. In 1881 he captures Rolla and Springfield, he winters in Springfield with plans to move north to Kansas City.

Meanwhile in 1880 Sherman decides on a total warfare scorch earth policy and does this from Louisville through Frankfort and onto Lexington. Lt Colonel George Armstrong Custer meets Sherman in battle as Sherman marches north from Lexington towards Cincinnatti. Custer dies but his army is able to force Sherman to remain in Lexington for the winter. With Jackson, Lee, and now Custer all dead there is a lack of great military geniuses in Virginia though many of the professional soldiers have had some experience with fighting Natives out west they have been slow to be moved back east to the area of Kentucky.

VA gambles in 1881 with a naval expedition to "temporarily" occupy Delaware and blockade Philadelphia. The occupation of Delaware goes off without a problem, but upsets the MD govt and people. Any hopes of pulling off a an invasion of PA through MD like the last war is out of the question now. NJ and Iroquois are also worried and send protest. The Join or Die party in NJ use this as a perfect opportunity to highlight why NJ should join Iroquois.

SC is worried about the possibility of PA making eliminating slavery from all of VA as a war goal. SC, NC, and TX begin making preparations for an allied force to secure VA.
 

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Banned
1882/1883

NC, SC, and TX do not declare war on PA but do allow volunteer regiments to be raised and cross borders to fight for VA in 1882. Iroquois, NJ, and MA do the same in 1883. MD declares a state of emergency and martial law and strict enforcement of neutrality. Deseret takes VA's weakness and subdues the Colorado mining communities of Denver and Colorado Springs.

Iroquois declares the condominium over Oregon to be null and void. MA, NJ, and Iroquois naval vessels in the Pacific Ocean secure the coast and VA representatives are treated with respect but securing immediate passage out of Oregon is demanded. The entire SC Pacific fleet based in San Diego is sent north to keep an eye on the "Northeastern Armada". The two fleets are comparable in size, though the Iroqouis and MA vessels are newer, larger, faster, and more powerful than the SC vessels; NJ's two vessels there are outdated.

With the arrival of southern volunteer regiments things turn a bit for Virginia in 1883. Grant is forced to abandon his march on Kansas City to deal with those regiments coming up from NC's western reaches around the Arkansas River. Most of his time is spent crisscrossing from Cape Girardeu to Springfield attacking and repulsing incursions. Sherman has better luck further east as he allows Kentucky to be invaded and leaves his colonels behind to hold the Ohio River southern bank, Sherman continues his devastation brand of warfare north and east to Charleston and Wheeling.

In 1884 there VA has control over much of Kentucky back but at great cost and there isn't much left standing along the path Sherman took. Sherman takes his force to Philadelphia, stopping at Johnstown (the PA capital) to a hero's welcome, in Philadelphia he draws plans to invade Delaware.

Iroquois, NJ, and MA naval vessels "quarantine" Delaware and therefore blockade the VA navy that is blockading PA. VA navy is informed they will be allowed to pass to leave and return to VA but no vessel, VA or otherwise, will be allowed to come in to DE.
 

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Banned
1884/1885

World's Fair held in New Orleans, SC. New Orleans is the largest city in SC and has surpassed all except NYC. This is called the World Cotton Centennial Fair as it is considered the 100th anniversary of the mention of cotton exported from the American colonies to England. It is considered the South's answer to the 1st World Fair held in Philadelphia commemorating colonial cooperation. Iroquois, PA, and NJ do not set up pavilions or send delegations. Pro-Virginia banners are seen, no Join or Die banners.

Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC harbor. At the same time NJ legislature votes to allow a referendum on joining Iroquois. The symbolism of the statue encourages the Join or Die movement. MA and PA both issue stamps with the words "Join or Die" and a picture of the statue as it would look completed.

In 1885 the Home Insurance Building is completed in Chicago, it is nicknamed the Join or Die Building, as representatives of the various counties carved from Polypotamia and Illinois use the dedication to announce that Chicago, Calhoun, Peoria, and other VA communities north of the Illinois River and east the Mississippi wish to join Iroquois. Iroquois makes no move in 1885 to annex pending negotiations with PA regarding their claims and war goals.
 
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