Fredish Presidents

Name - United States of Fredonia (English)

Continent - Africa

Capital - Marshfield [Bopolu]

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

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

President of the Senate - Vice President ----------

Speaker of the House of Representatives -

Judiciary - Supreme Court

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court -

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

Form of law -

Demonym - Fredish

Area - 414,065 km^2

Largest cities

-Libertopolis [Monrovia]

-Marshfield

-Freetown

-Musardu

-Ashland [Harper]

Time zone - TMP+00:00

Currency - Fredish dollar

Language - English

Population -

Density -

National festival - Independence Day (January 13) - commemorating the Declaration of Independence (1840)

Anthem -

Motto - Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God

-with no War of 1812 this guy makes greater success in settling Americans to Sierra Leone

-and success in bringing over some free blacks in the years onwards to Sherbro Island

-all the way till Cuffe's death in 1819

-begins regular ship contact

-rising tensions between US and UK under American Presidents > 1817-1825 James Monroe (Republican) begins move for establishing a separate colony

-establishment of American Colonization Society in 1820

-Cape Mesurado acquired as separate colony by gunpoint for settlement in 1824, creating Libertopolis as a city

-attempt to settle it interrupted by US's Wars > Luisiana War (1825-8)

-it has some settlement

-despite fears it would be undefended

-very narrowly defended by French to own the British

-postwar, waves of settlement come

-especially fostered by American Presidents > 1829-1837 Henry Clay (Republican, then National Republican) who gives it support

-Libertopolis grows rapidly into a sizeable town

-and some interior settlement, some wars

-with outbreak of US's Wars > Second Quasi War (1839-42), fears emerge of French sack

-inspires mass organization by settlers

-who force the ACS agents out

-declare the independence of Fredonia led by mulatto constitutional delegates

-no French sack comes

-with Recessions > Panic of 1842 and British Wars > New Granadine War of Independence (1848-52) US slave densities dramatically increase and due to use of slaves as collateral Bank of the United States becomes largest slaveowner in the US

-with price of slave collapsing American Presidents > 1845-1852 Daniel Webster (Unionist) † successfully gets agreement (unofficial) for Bank to send slaves to Fredonia in return for larger lump sum and increased capitalization at renewal

-Fredonia locates slaves into interior and founds new cities

-that such slaves are dark-skinned, not mulattos, means an increase in colorist tensions

-but in addition fears in South of increased slave densities -> revolt means increased deportation of free blacks

-eventual Fredonian Revolution in 1880s sees overthrow of mulatto elites by dark-skinned settlers

-who look to interior and are allied with certain native elements

-and get loans from Bank of the United States to expand into the interior

-thanks to powerful Colored vote who view Fredonia as light of freedom in pagan, slaveowning continent it's a pretty fair loan all things considered

-roads, rail get constructed into the interior

-w/ no War of 1812, many more black Americans move to Sierra Leone led by Paul Cuffe

-helps to enable cross-trade as well

-worried about it due to seeming subversiveness, American Colonization Society, cross of moderate antislavery types and pro-slavers, forms their own colonies nearby

-in early 1820s, black American migration to Sierra Leone dries up

-while ACS colonies become very unpopular among black Americans, kill off Sierra Leone migration by association

-colony gets sacked by French during Second French War (1821-32)

-when US's Wars > Second Quasi War (1839-42) occurs, American colonies fearing French raids fly British flag, essentially joining Sierra Leone

-with the exception of Maryland-in-Africa, which extends far into Ivory Coast

-and gets a lot of people due to American Presidents > 1845-1852 Daniel Webster (Unionist) †