United States of America.CANVAS

War scare with Spanish Luisiana; resolved by the Intendant resigning

US public debt entirely paid off; American Presidents > 1809-1817 James Madison (Republican) begins being more open in public funding

American Infrastructure > Erie Canal completed, to national fanfare

1824 election ends with hung college; American Presidents > 1825-1827 William Lowndes (Republican) † becomes president

After Spain shuts down trade along the Mississippi, the US declares war on Spain, resulting in US's Wars > Luisiana War (1825-8)

US's Wars > Luisiana War (1825-8) sees a ceasefire

American Presidents > 1825-1827 William Lowndes (Republican) † dies

US's Wars > Luisiana War (1825-8) sees end with a treaty

Passage of the Tariff of 1830, which many Southerners regard as an attack on slavery, and many talk about nullification

American Presidents > 1829-1837 Henry Clay (Republican, then National Republican) is elected president

American Presidents > 1829-1837 Henry Clay (Republican, then National Republican) wins reelection

First Nullification Crisis; South Carolina threatens to nullify the tariff and even secede, only for the Clay government to issue a Compromise Tariff which brings the crisis to an end

Recessions > Panic of 1835; Clay cannily avoids it from turning it into a wider crisis

Missouri statehood proposed; the House of Representatives makes its statehood requisite on manumission

American Presidents > 1829-1837 Henry Clay (Republican, then National Republican) fumbles the issue by extolling slavery in lobbying to Northern congressmen, preventing a compromise

The South inaugurates a convention, openly mooting secession

Martin van Buren successfully organizes a North-South union party, which elects American Presidents > 1837-1845 Zebulon Pike (Old Republican, then People's) to power

Clay fumbles a last compromise attempt as president

Missouri Compromise; Missouri made a slave state but with restriction on admitting more slaves, slavery in Arkansaw assured, new Fugitive Slave Act, and Indian Removal

Northern juries nullify the Fugitive Slave Act; Missouri becomes a full-blown slave state

Over raids, anti-slave trade acts, the US engages in retaliatory action against the French in the US's Wars > Second Quasi War (1839-42)

American Presidents > 1837-1845 Zebulon Pike (Old Republican, then People's) wins a narrow election

US's Wars > Second Quasi War (1839-42) comes to an end with an American victory

Recessions > Panic of 1842 begins, damaging Pike's popularity

American Presidents > 1845-1852 Daniel Webster (Unionist) † comes to power

Second Nullification Crisis; South Carolina declares the Webster Tariff nullified, but the rest of the South refuses to sign on

Webster Tariff; the Compromise Tariff repealed and older high tariff restored

Webster refuses to negotiate

British Wars > New Granadine War of Independence (1848-52) begins, causing a war panic in the South which fears this will be a war against slavery, and causes a renewed economic crisis as this results in a lot of slaves for export instead imported into the US, depressing slave values and collapsing securities dependent on them

In a convention, the South refuses to sign on to South Carolina's brinkmanship

Webster issues the Nullification Proclamation condemning the practice; gets a Force Bill past Congress

South Carolina finally admits defeat

Webster completes great unifying tour of the nation and especially the South, to cheers and plaudits

Revelation of massive corruption scandals in Bank and government, of embezzlement and sale of positions

Webster renews the Bank of the United States > Second Bank of the United States (1828-1868) by agreeing (outside deal) to deport its collateral slaves to Fredonia

American Presidents > 1845-1852 Daniel Webster (Unionist) † wins reelection against John C. Calhoun

Great Shoemaker Strike of 1851; Webster's coalition begins to shatter over his opposition to laborism

Daniel Webster dies on July 4, 1842, and in a strange coincidence Henry Clay dies on that day too

Civil service law instituted

American Presidents > 1853-1861 Robert F. Stockton (People's) elected president

Nibrasca opened to free settlement

Republic of Jamaica under William Walker applies for admission into the United States, and American Presidents > 1853-1861 Robert F. Stockton (People's) accepts

Treaty on Jamaica joining voted down, Stockton accepts this overwhelming defeat

Several railroad companies go bankrupt, and suspiciously, Stockton's investments do well

In reaction to pay cuts to make up for lost money, railroad workers go on strike, and this gets suppressed by the government

American Presidents > 1861-1865 Richard Menefee (Unionist) elected to office

Begins construction of a transcontinental railroad, from St. Louis to Port Townsend

Slave staters storm into Nibrasca to control its legislature

Slave staters bring slaves into Nibrasca, resulting in territorial court setting it free, goes to Supreme Court

Nibrasca legislature sees massive infighting between free staters and slave staters, and violence rips open

Menefee decides to authorize compromise dividing Nibrasca into two territories, one designated slave and another free, and gets it through Congress by narrow lines

Kances Territory passes slave code, to widespread chaos, and this spirals out of control

Buenaventura's Wars > Buenaventuran War of Independence (1864-7) begins, the Menefee government recognizes its independence

However, it abolishing slavery results in chaos, Menefee becomes very controversial, he rescinds recognition

Menefee decides to abandon his presidential run, but the Unionist Convention ends up being divided between southerners and northerners, and after the South wins the Northerners break away and join with the Young America Party

Presidential election ends with hung college

Presidential contingent election ends up with Southern Unionists supporting Woodward; Dorr and the Justicialists around him decisively defeated but become coherent party

American Presidents > 1865-1868 George Washington Woodward (People's) [impeached, removed from office] declares neutrality in the war, but practically supports the South and the Spanish

Kances slave code, slave case goes to the Supreme Court which ends with all slave laws in territories abolished

As Bill of Rights incorporated to the states, this leads to slavery practically allowed in the free states, which causes mass chaos

Midterms see Justicialists and Anti-Kances Populists sweep the north

Incredibly divided House unable to elect a Speaker, the crisis spirals out of control

Joshua Giddings gives a speech on floor of Senate in defence of Buenaventura's revolution and calls for the same in the US, ends with Senator Henry A. Edmundson stabbing him with a bowie knife

When senators try to intervene to stop this, Senator Lawrence Keitt brings a gun, and when senators led by Menefee call the bluff he shoots in the air, glass coming down leads to people being forced to shield themselves under desks, jackets

Giddings bleeds out on the Senate floor

Edmundson resigns, willingly puts himself in hands of the courts for his crime (which he gets celebrated for)

House ends up being split into two, with Justicialist body in its own headquarters, awaiting further negotiations

Edmundson is acquitted by slaveocratic body, reelected to Senate, seated

Justicialist senators end up joining up with secessionist House in Wigwam

Committee of Vigilance founded, Wigwam congress passes anti-slave laws, negotiation fails

Woodward organizes troops to arrest Wigwam Congress, but it has the slip, all but 11 members able to escape

Committee of Vigilance, now Committee of Safety, calls for the Declaration of Resistance (1868), convening Wigwam Congress in Philadelphia

Constitutionalist Congress convened in Philadelphia, organizes waves of Impeachments

Woodward sends troops to crush Constitutional Government, but defeated in Battle of Chester, opening the Liberty and Union War (1868-76)

American Presidents > 1869-1870 George Bancroft (Justice) † assassinated

American Presidents > 1870-1877 Henry Winter Davis (Justice) comes to power

Constitutionalists take St. Louis, Lexington

American Presidents > 1870-1877 Henry Winter Davis (Justice) wins reelection in a landslide

Constitutionalists take Memphis

Constitutionalists take St. Louis, Richmond

American Presidents > 1877-1879 John Wentworth (Justice) † wins election

Fall of Appalachicola; Richmondites flee to Jamaica

Country folders/United States/Economy/Mineral rushes > Pikes Peak Gold Rush (1878) happens, gold settlers move into Tahosa

Settlers organize Vigilant Committee, establish unofficial territorial government

World Expo > 1879 Centennial Festival (Philadelphia) happens

American Presidents > 1877-1879 John Wentworth (Justice) † assassinated while at Expo by a White Knight

American Presidents > 1879-1887 Curran Emmet (Justice) sends troops towards Territory of Lowndes, crushing it

Emmet sends a navy towards Jamaica to crush Richmondism, but Spanish ships capture it

Despite calls for war, Emmet instead engages in some diplomacy while riding wave of anger, seeking to build up the navy in the interim

With navy now secure, Emmet sends a fleet towards the Antilles, beginning the Antillean War (1880-4)

American Presidents > 1879-1887 Curran Emmet (Justice) wins a landslide election

Antillean War (1880-4) comes to an end, the Spanish surrender

American troops land on Jamaica and capture the "Island Capitol", capturing the traitor American Presidents > 1865-1868 George Washington Woodward (People's) [impeached, removed from office]

American Presidents > 1865-1868 George Washington Woodward (People's) [impeached, removed from office] executed for several crimes, most notably treason

American Presidents > 1879-1887 Curran Emmet (Justice) wins a landslide reelection

American Presidents > 1879-1887 Curran Emmet (Justice) reveals a massive corruption scandal, involving the Bank of the United States > Third Bank of the United States (1879-pres.) and the Treasury Secretary, including war profiteering and embezzlement

Washington Convention brought to its second beginning

Constitution of the United States (1885) ratified

American Presidents > 1887-1891 John A. Logan (Justice) † elected to office

Anti-Cuban Riots, provoked by immigration of Cuban freedmen whose "occult" Abakua rituals become the subject of race hate

American Presidents > 1887-1891 John A. Logan (Justice) † claims the riots to be the work of a neo-Richmondite conspiracy, suppresses it by sending in the Civil Guard to the north

American Presidents > 1887-1891 John A. Logan (Justice) † dies; American Presidents > 1891-1893 John W. Foster (Justice) comes to power

American Presidents > 1893-1899 Galusha Pennypacker (Justice) elected as president

International Interventions > Intervention in Grao-Para (1897-8) begins; US plays leading part in it

Wave of Russian refugees fleeing Russo-Chinese War (1893-9) move to the US

Rinderpest epidemic, brought by cattle brought by Russian refugees, coarses across the United States, destroying the cattle and dairy industry

Recessions > Panic of 1911; American economy crashes

American Presidents > 1917-1923 >Paul Drennan Cravath (Free Trade) elected president; first non-Justicialist president in 48 years