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American Infrastructure

American Presidents

Constitution of the United States

Mineral rushes

National University of the United States of America

Richmondite Government

State of Anacostia

Name - United States of America (English)

Continent - Americas

Capital - Washington, Anacostia

Head of state and government - President --------

Vice President (and President of the Senate) -

Legislature - Congress - Senate (upper), House of Representatives (lower)

Speaker of the House of Representatives - Diane Mueller

Judiciary - Supreme Court

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court - William Roberts

Form of government - Federal republic under a democratic presidential triramic constitution

Form of law - Brougham Code (national, most states); Cambacérès Code (Orleans (civil), East Florida (civil))

Demonym - American

Area - 4,292,558 km^2

Largest cities

-New York, New York - 10,090,000 (city), 23,785,000 (metro)

-St. Louis, Missouri - 5,221,000 (city), 15,038,000 (metro)

-Cincinnati, Ohio - 4,047,000 (city), 10,415,000 (metro)

Time zone - TMP-05:00, -06:00

Currency - American dollar

Language - None; English (unofficial)

Other languages

-Maine, Vermont - French (co-official)

-East Florida - Spanish (co-official)

-Orleans - French, Spanish (co-official)

-Pembina, Wisconsan - German (co-official)

-Minasota - Sioux, Ojibwe, French (co-official)

Population - 315,032,000

Density - 68.23 /km^2

National festival - Independence Day (July 4) - commemorating the Declaration of Independence (1776)

Anthem - Battle March of Liberty

Motto - E pluribus unum

-without Jackson, a weaker presidency

-veto virtually unused, and when it is it's a major crisis

-effectively serves as what in OTL we would call Chief of Staff

-runs foreign affairs

-in general, with US being less prominent abroad, Secretary of State has less stature

-manages the collection of revenue, federal finances, and the minting of currency

-formed during American Presidents > 1829-1837 Henry Clay (Republican, then National Republican) presidency

-manages

-internal improvements

-Indian affairs

-public affairs

-patents

-seals

-pensions

-general police

-National Preserve Territories

-with the general police, specifically management of the Civil Guard, being the one the public associates with it the most

-manages the three branches of the military, the Army, the Navy, and the Aerial Fleet

-successor to the Secretary of Freedmen, Refugees, and Abandoned Lands, runs extensions of some of its purposes

-runs the federal education system, regulates lower-level schools

-runs health insurance system, other health elements

-manages water, mining, energy, forestry

-advises Congress on the law

-runs a narrow Department of Justice that provides lawyers for prosecution

-runs Postal & Telegraph Service

-can send a message variously through mail and Telegraphy

-also calls through Telepalver

-including video call system

-and later terminals with Networking > Teledata ( United States of America )

-political appointee, but w/ underlings in civil service

-often serves as minister without portfolio

-gendarmerie, across the nation

-formed in wake of assassination of American Presidents > 1877-1879 John Wentworth (Justice) †, to protect against the civil strife of the era

(1) abolished in 1857, as gradual abolition post 1860.

(2) abolished in 1867, as gradual abolition post 1870.

(3) Applied for admission in 1867, secured enabling act, and issued a constitution. Whether their constitutions met the enabling act's terms was disputed, recognition of their electoral delegations for the 1868 election was one of the disputes that caused the division of the United States into two governments in 1869 and the subsequent US's Wars > American Civil War (1869-76). By the time it came to an end in 1876, their constitutions and statehood was struck as invalid and, by the First State Readmission Act, they needed to apply for statehood under strict terms.

(*) Followed the outbreak of the Civil War, new states not recognized by the Richmondite Government

(**) Fourteenth Amendment banned slavery in 1873; Richmondite Government overthrown, fled in 1876

-Without the War of 1812, the Maine statehood movement is much weaker, and after a certain point it falls into a stiff decline

-Democratic Maine being part of Whiggish Massachusetts means Massachusetts is somewhat of a swing state, and this gives Maine a strong position of influence when Populists come to power in the state

-The Louisiana Purchase never happened, instead it's obtained (along with Florida) in US's Wars > Luisiana War (1825-8)

-When the US conquers Spanish Louisiana, the OTL Louisiana state has enough population to be annexed immediately

-With a much later acquisition of Louisiana, Britain is able to get firm control over the Oregon Territory, the US buys the Olympic Peninsula and the right to build roads to and from it for an ample sum later on

-Mississippi Territory does not incorporate the Gulf coastline, and so instead of being divided north-south (to give both states access to the Gulf), it's divided east-west (to give both states access to the Mississippi)

-And needing to shore up the South's position in the Senate results in Florida (incl. the bits annexed by Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana) divided into two

-Without the Louisiana Purchase, there's a lot more southern migration into the Midwest, and it's enough to tip Illinois into ratifying a slave state constitution which gets approved by Congress after a brief sectional crisis, and as a result its boundary does not get revised northwards and it lacks Chicago

-Many of the southerners who went into Texas in OTL instead go into Missouri. With Illinois a slave state, they're able to open slave plantations on the Mississippi shore, and Missouri is far more securely a slave state

-Missouri is smaller (boundary at the Osage) due to a stronger North during the later Missouri crisis though

-Michigan gets the Toledo Strip, and as a result it doesn't get the Upper Peninsula

-Indian Removal is delayed relative to OTL, and because of them getting pushed by the states OTL attempts for Cherokee, Creek, others to move to Texas works

-and so far smaller reservations in OTL Oklahoma emerge, opening it to later settlement

-An OTL proposal to turn most of southern Minnesota into an Indian Territory to deport Midwestern tribes gets through with the Midwest more settled and Minnesota less than OTL

-Wisconsin initially wants to get the remainder of the Northwest Territory, but it gets blocked from annexing the St. Croix Valley and the Upper Peninsula, which instead goes to a separate state, called Ontonagon as was an OTL proposal (Congress refused to let it name itself Superior)

-Juniper (Iowa, named after the red cedar (juniper) tree for the Cedar Valley) gets a very different shape because the North, wanting to pack in more free states, secures for it a smaller western boundary extending Missouri's and, as compensation, gives it a bit of the North-West Indian Territory stretching to OTL Minneapolis as was an OTL proposal, then stretched further to construct railroads through it

-Pembina Territory gets opened up in order to open up a path to a northern transcontinental railroad, and also to satisfy land hunger for the South-West Indian Territory, but it gets settled very slowly

-Nibrasca Territory, consisting of land extending from Missouri, Juniper consisting of Nibraska, Kances, and land to the Rockies to make room for the railroad

-with Kances divided off to make room for a slave territory, is major battleground of slave way

-and Cimarron created in same burst

-Slavery tensions spark a civil war after the disputed 1868 election, goes much worse for the North but it wins by 1876

-In the interim, to prevent a pro-compromise candidate from winning the coming election, the North admits a number of states (not recognized by southern government)

-Civil War states

-Olympia, effectively a city-state centred around the city-state of the much larger Port Townsend (the only American port on the Pacific), gets admission

-West Virginia equiv is much smaller because the James River and Kanawha Canal gets constructed and turns the Kanawha Valley into a slaveowning region

-East Tennessee's statehood movement goes off and succeeds, with the name of its 1780s attempt

-Maine's statehood movement makes a return with Massachusetts becoming very much dominant-party to the detriment of its importance, and it gets it

-postwar

-Mineral rushes > Pikes Peak Gold Rush (1878) occurs in southwest part of Nibrasca territory, causes southward push, territory to be admitted of Tahosa, "Dweller of the Mountain Tops"

-Mineral rushes > Washingtonia Gold Rush (1882) sees that whole area populated by whites, settled and named after George Washington (this clunky name was proposed for OTL Washington by Stephen Douglas)

-precedent for city-state set, and so with DC having boomed way more thanks to Chesapeake and Ohio Canal built way earlier and Second Bank headquartered there, gets admitted as State of Anacostia, named after river

-Following Mineral rushes > Black Hills Gold Rush (1897), Sioux reservation put to an end

-Minasota has as its origins as the North-West Indian Territory, a pile of "useless land" to put Native American into (and also gets a bunch of Metis), and later it gets statehood when Mineral rushes > Black Hills Gold Rush (1897) puts an end to Sioux reservation and brings more pressure for settlement, land reorganization

-The remaining land also gets settled, with a small border adjustment giving it control of the whole west bank of the Missouri River because the federal government doesn't want it in the North-West Indian Territory in the name of security (thus why it looks like that), and it gets admitted as the State of Jefferson (a name proposed a few times in OTL)

-The North-West Indian Territory gets a number of other Native American tribes deported there (with a lot of friction between them and the Dakota) as well as a fair number of Metis fleeing the Red River Colony's annexation to Upper Canada, and they're reluctant for statehood because it would mean allowing white settlers, but with the frontier closed everywhere else there's an increasing land hunger for it, and so after some years of close but failed votes for opening it up, they apply for statehood as "Minasota" under a constitution giving them protection and get it, and they're able to manage the subsequent white settlement well

-when Yellow Rock geysers discovered (in unorganized territory) over transatlantic railroad construction (under American Presidents > 1853-1861 Robert F. Stockton (People's)), there is talk of preserving it forever

-Stockton doesn't give a shit, sees rise of hotels and the like which causes outrage at natural beauty tainted

-under his successor American Presidents > 1861-1865 Richard Menefee (Unionist), unorganized territory north of Nibrasca around geysers organized

-postwar becomes major tourist attraction, iconic symbol of the US

-during construction of Northern Pacific Railroad, glaciers near Schuldt Pass discovered

-rising frenzy, pushed by railway company, to make it a park

-preserved as an American Alpine paradise for that purpose

-named after Spanish guy, not Medina

-in the wake of Mineral rushes > Pikes Peak Gold Rush (1878), development of spectacular locales causes talk of preserving them

[1]Does not include Staten Island but does include Yonkers, New Rochelle, and Mount Vernon

[2]Consists of OTL Washington east of Rock Creek

[3]Tulsa

[4]Greater St. Louis

[5]Atlanta - Latinization of the indigenous name, Peachtree

[6]includes all towns in Hudson County east of the Hackensack River and part of Staten Island

[7]part of Greater New York

[8]Includes Norfolk and Virginia Beach

[9]Michigan City - named by New Yorker settlers after DeWitt Clinton

[10]Indianapolis - proposed name

[11]Toledo - named after river

[12]Lafayette

[13]Birmingham, Alabama - named after a different industrial center

[14]Shreveport

[15]Oklahoma City

[16]part of Greater Cincinnati

[17]Minneapolis

[18]part of Greater St. Paul

[19]Tampa

-the US is a very different society here due to much less expansion and little West Coast presence

-as a result, there is less room for Sun Belt migration, which still happens but is less

-furthermore, without the US becoming a world power in the same way, and without Europe being as wrecked, American industry doesn't have a time period of being complacent and so modernizes more early, resulting in no Rust Belt

-while also being focused much more on internal production

-and more protectionism allowing for more industry (with largely internal market)

-New York gets amalgamated early (in 1872) and attempts to rehouse people from its tenements considerably earlier

-note that due to Washington housing Bank of the United States, it is not quite heavy center of financial industry, resulting in it becoming relatively smaller in 19th century

-nevertheless, it's still clear center of the United States and booms more with less Rust Belt and no 70s syndrome

-St. Louis gets much more development thanks to, first transcontinental railroad, and second, it gets massive post-Civil War construction

-and lack of West Coast meaning more people move here

-due to almost no West Coast, more people move to Midwest (esp. Ohio)

-also Illinois is slave state here, so fewer people move there

-resulting in way bigger Cincinnati, which retains the importance it had in this smaller US

-New Orleans does way better due to much greater importance of Mississippi River here

-and also no equiv of Jones Act making shipping through it more viable

-due to Chicago being in sep state from Illinois, canal to Mississippi that makes it big gets constructed beginning in 1848 (ends in 1857), and it takes till the late 1880s for Chicago to be raised

-resulting in it losing and becoming just a major port

-however, during US's Wars > American Civil War (1869-76), it is very important as, with Illinois going Richmondite, Chicago is only land connection b/w Constitutionalist east and west

-giving it nickname "Keystone City"

-St. Paul is eastern terminus of second transcontinental railroad, resulting in it being way bigger

-in addition to further importance of Mississippi making it major inland port

-Ohio and Erie and Miami and Erie Canals get constructed in the 1810s and 20s, helping both Cincinnati and Toledo

-also Sandusky gets selected as mouth of Ohio and Erie canal, making it take the place of Cleveland in history (albeit with less growth thanks to Cincinnati's hugeness)

-Michigan invests way more in Toledo, and so it replaces Detroit as its big metropolis

-note, however, that it doesn't become a one-industry town, resulting in a less massive boom (and also less urban decay)

-Indiana does well with its Mammoth Internal Improvements Bill, resulting in Michigan City blooming as a city

-Illinois selects Peoria as a capital, developing it as its big city

-Independence, Missouri gets selected as town with transcontinental train station, and so it booms in place of Kansas City and becomes center of its town

-the South sees way more industry due to protectionist policies under American Presidents > 1829-1837 Henry Clay (Republican, then National Republican) and American Presidents > 1845-1852 Daniel Webster (Unionist) † being default in antebellum history

-also, cheaper "slave price" due to trans-Caribbean slave trade resulting in slave breeding plantations being much bigger, resulting in more slaves available for industry

-this rubs off to post-plantation era

-Richmond becomes much larger due to this slave-powered slavery

-and also James River and Kanawha Canal gets constructed, both Richmond and Louisville boom thanks to it

-Charleston likewise does boom for same reason

-and Charleston, Louisville, and Cincinnati Railroad is among first railroads

-a canal connecting Savannah and Tennessee rivers gets made in 1820s, and so Atlanta booms earlier with a different name

-and following rise of air coolers and all that, massive migration down south centralized to little US parts

-Baltimore stagnates heavily due to investing in much less prominent canals instead of B&O Railroad

-and also because Washington takes its place

-by the modern day, it is effectively an outlying suburb of Washington

-while Chesapeake and Ohio Canal results in Washington booming

-also it gets much more industry, (National University of the United States of America > Smithsonian Institution) being university results in university students being there, tech boom being prominent there

-note that the state of Anacostia is effectively a city-state with its governor effectively a mayor, and if you count it as such, its population is over 3 million

-Reconstruction being a success here means Wilmington booms and doesn't suffer its 1898 coup

-due to Port Townsend being only American port on the Pacific, it expands hugely

-Fernandina gets selected as Atlantic terminus for canal from Suwanee to Atlantic, and this makes it leading city of Florida

-New York City gets amalgamated early (in 1872) when Queens wasn't a big thing, and so it's a union of Manhattan and Brooklyn, and it eats the Bronx (and into Westchester) and some parts of Queens slowly afterwards

-In contrast, the water controversies between Brooklyn and the rest of Long Island over the late 19th century are won by Brooklyn, and as a result Long Island's development is delayed by a fair bit, with development instead concentrated northward in the Bronx

-In general, the Midwest never turns into the Rust Belt because, first, this is a timeline without World War II and so the US doesn't just sit complacent in its industry's super-confidence, and second, without California and the rest of the west, industry doesn't move stuff like the tech boom instead occurs in the Midwest

-The Erie Canal's terminus is selected as Black Rock instead of Buffalo, and so Black Rock eats Buffalo instead of the other way around

-Fort Wayne is bigger because it's both on the Wabash and Erie Canal and the terminus of the canal to Michigan City

-Websteropolis, Pembina - Minot, South Dakota, major center with at least 200k people