United States of America

1800: (with Charles C. Pinckney) def. John Adams/Charles C. Pinckney (Federalist)

Note: Jefferson's running mate was Aaron Burr, but South Carolina voted for Jefferson and Pinckney

1804: (with Aaron Burr) def. Charles C. Pinckney/Rufus King (Federalist)

-circumstances are very slightly in favor of Federalists due to War of the French Revolution (1792-1804) > Great Irish Rebellion (1796-9) seeing backlash in aristo south

-in particular South Carolina has slightly more Federalist support

-as a result it splits

-big event is barbary wars, fights with barbary piracy

-this and fear of French antislavery leads to some buildup of navy

-negotiates new orleans access with spain repeatedly, but fails

-in 1802 there is big crisis after spanish intendant juan ventura morales, under secret order of king, ends us right to deposit in new orleans

-war scare begins, intense in west, but less so among federalists - unlike otl, weaker fear of french control

-resolutions for sending 50,000 troops proposed, scares spain into transferring intendant, and new one under orders of king authorizes right to deposit again

-allows jefferson and co to spin it as a silly little crisis caused by rogue intendant

-but spain takes more measures to prohibit smuggling, ultimately unsuccessful

-after france supports first bahia war of independence including slave revolt, builds up fleet to defend us and stuff

-end of french revolutionary war brings about period of immense prosperity as american markets opened

-spending cuts and stuff, sectreas gallatin drastically reduces us debt

-does do a great job of this

-but doesn't do away with bank of united states

-also plans to reduce debt hampered by expensive scientific expeditions

1808: (with James Monroe) def. Charles C. Pinckney/Rufus King (Federalist)

1812: hung electoral college: Aaron Burr/James Monroe, John Marshall/Jacob Stout (Federalist)

1813: (with James Monroe) def. in contingent election James Monroe

-Jefferson attempts to remove him through caucus

-promoting Madison in it

-however, this attempt goes awry and the caucus votes for Burr

-next, Jefferson attempts to depose Burr through electoral vote shenanigans

-but Burr beats Jefferson in them

-thus, Burr becomes president

-tries to renew first bank with wholly new charter granting new power to New York interests

-but this is badly defeated by coalition of anti-bank elements and enemies of New York interests

-continues jeffersonian economic policy broadly but with some of the madisonian impulse influencing it

-and is very very pro internal improvements

-builds up

-American Infrastructure > Erie Canal which sees conclusion towards end of Burr's tenure

-American Infrastructure > Union Canal from Washington to Pittsburgh

-American Infrastructure > James River and Kanawha Canal from Richmond to Charleston Virginia

-American Infrastructure > Union Canal (Pennsylvania) from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh

-American Infrastructure > Tennessee-Chattahoochee Canal from Tennessee River to Chattahoochee

-and a set of canals linked to it from Georgia

-additional feeder to Santee River and thus to Charleston

-introduces Tariffs > Tariff of 1810 to power all this internal improvements building

-increasingly grates on the entire party establishment

-viewed as ambitious and a would-be American Catiline

-and a demagogue

-only gets worse when he uses the appointment system as a spoils system contrary to Jefferson

-with this, his Democratic faction becomes separate from the Republicans

-relatively popular john marshall made federalist nominee in 1812 to get southern votes, not enough and still beaten handedly

-in 1812 after much scheming Monroe wins as many votes as Burr, in a clear attempt to depose him

-but contingent election sees this fail

-end of public debt in 1813

-assures all that Burr's pro-infrastructure policy well-shown

-tensions with uk at times over impressment, but cools down with informal agreements

-wilkinson conspiracy discovered, gets destroyed

-but dissatisfaction over kentucky and tennessee's semi-detachment from republic continues to cause resentment, talk of invading new orleans

1816: (with DeWitt Clinton) def. Aaron Burr/Caleb Rodney (Democratic/Federalist), Alexander Hamilton/Harrison Gray Otis (Straight-Out Federalist)

1820: hung electoral college: James Madison/Jesse B. Thomas (Republican), Aaron Burr/William Henry Harrison (Democratic),

1821: (with William Henry Harrison) def. in contingent election Aaron Burr/William Henry Harrison (Democratic), Langdon Cheves/Jesse B. Thomas (Old Republican), Alexander Hamilton/Harrison Gray Otis (Straight-Out Federalist)

-in caucus prevails over both clinton and crawford (reqs 2 ballots)

-wins support from Tertium Quids who regard Burr as a wannabe Catiline

-and defeats Burr's attempt at a third term

-economy splutters following year without a summer

-people particularly in west need loans, hundreds of banks issue paper money backed by nothing

-public land speculation makes uptick in this period

-war scare with uk in 1818-20

-but it gets toned down due to Illinois Crisis

-massive sale of government shares in corporations

-yields a lot of profits for government

-but also helps fuel a bubble of speculation

-in violation of its enabling act, illinois sends a constitution permitting slavery, the house votes it down

-a lot of people who in otl moved to missouri instead move to illinois

-causes widespread anxiety, both north and south turn to loggerheads

-Illinoians' territorial delegate, John Scott, unsubtly threatens to secede and align with spain

-attempts to compromise voted down, results in calls for civil war

-Henry Clay makes initial compromise by splitting gradual emancipation with non-importation

-however, House votes for both

-Another compromise combining statehood for illinois as-is with more ardent restrictions on slavery in remaining territory fails

-Southern Old Republicans in the House are powerful enough to scuttle this compromise

-this ends with Congress tabling bill, for next Congress in 1819

-in interim there's a frantic era of petitioning against admission

-and in Illinois people are increasingly unhappy and now willing to force the issue

-in new Congress issue is debated, and votes continue to deadlock

-until, finally,

-bubble pops in 1819 in Recessions > Panic of 1819, many banks go bankrupt causing massive economic chaos

-in its wake, congress pushes through tariff of 1820 with wide support

-Madison signs this despite some voices claiming it's unconstitutional

-push for bank of us to reduce chaos caused by hundreds of banks, but fails in congress due to much opposition, dispute over precise scheme

1824: (with William Henry Harrison) def. William H. Crawford/Smith Thompson (Republican), Rufus King/Samuel Primoleau (Federalist)

-having won New York on an antislavery platform Burr is the natural choice of a Northern party

-however, makes a popular Westerner his vice president to win support from the West and he does

-despite Hamilton's high federalist ticket it's a smashing Democratic victory

-winning a majority, the South contemplates disunion

-but other than issuing declarations of opposition and interposition does not

-several of these ghostwritten by Thomas Jefferson

-because it wants support from Southwest when it disunites

-Virginia resolution gets passed in tradition of '98

-reestablishes bank of the United States in 1821

-jeered as neo-federalist but also has support

-in firm reply to Recessions > Panic of 1819 and unregulated banking economy it exposes

-capitalization is 5 times First Bank

-shares set at $0.50 and laws instituted to avoid hoarding

-intended to make the National Bank into an institution much like the Manhattan Company

-paired with Bonus Act of 1821 indexing the bank bonus into a fund for internal improvements

-helps to create a large boom but is also a clear spot for politicking

-Illinois unilaterally decides to write its own constitution

-engages in secret negotiation with the Spanish

-in vain hopes of being part of some Mississippian superstate

-simultaneously sends a delegation to Congress

-Burr receives it and engages in some hardball negotiation

-trying to pair antislavery with internal improvements

-however, then there's the revelation of James Wilkinson being a Spanish spy and in communications with Illinois

-Burr reveals this as being a treasonous attempt to snap the West from the US

-this is enough to get a declaration of war against Spain

-turning into US's Wars > Luisiana War (1823-8)

-additionally it collapses the Illinoian state as it collapses into two factions, one of which is pro-US

-Kaskaskia Government (pro-independence), idk Government (anti-Independence)

-the Kaskaskia Government formally declares independence but it's sort of losing the ball here

-soon afterwards, however, his section of the President's Mansion mysteriously burns down, Burr is dead

-out of universe, because he tries lighting a candle with gunpowder

-inside it a lot of speculation which goes nowhere

-Jefferson sighs in relief

1828 (with William Lowndes) def. Langdon Cheves/George Poindexter (Republican), Harrison Gray Otis/None (Federalist)

1832 (with Joseph Alston) def. John C. Calhoun/Levi Woodbury (Republican), John McLean/Samuel Morse (Anti-Catholic)

-served as governor of Indiana Territory until it became state, and then he becomes office-seeker

-becomes cabinet secretary in the Burr cabinet

-through that, becomes leading Democrat

-kept his mouth shut (aside from some letters) during Illinois crisis

-tries to prevent competition, unify country and stuff

-and attempts to project himself as a grand unifying figure

-also tries to resolve Illinois crisis

-affection for western interests

-and in office it's this which he represents

-builds up the west plentifully

-a lot of buildup of infrastructure there

-in 1824 Spanish ships sack Charleston, demonstrative of feebleness of American navy

-and they do some raids on Savannah

-Creek rally to Spanish cause (after Georgian troops attack them), and this turns things brutal

-On war rally, Harrison wins a landslide reelection

-american troops swiftly charge in across mississippi, take over across from Memphis

-charge to take new orleans but it gets immediately lost after spanish ships come

-this results in charges across Mississippi essentially being lost regiments

-much american shipping seized, merchants chafe at closure of routes

-spanish raid ports across eastern seaboard, but not enough to give them charleston treatment

-but most of luisiana gets occupied by usa, as spain fails to combat american efforts there

-attempts to penetrate lower mississippi fail due to spanish naval efforts that result in deflections of american

-when the British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9) happens, Spain finally brought to peace table

-fears some sort of union of the US with the British against it

-treaty signed in washington with spanish envoy sent from mexico city

-luisiana war a victory with peace in 1827 which gets the us louisiana and the floridas

-when there's controversy in the senate, expansion spun as "compensation" for bombardment of american ports

-anxiety grows over catholicism of luisiana, fosters nativist reaction that grows in future

-clay's prominent role in treaty means he's given special praise by public

-additionally, with the British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9) the US has a very pro reaction

-it's a revolution against the Guelphs who the Americans overthrew after all

-some talk of using the opportunity to occupy and incorporate BNA

-Secretary Clay nixes it because it might worsen slavery issue and because it might spiral the British same way war with all neighbors did to French

-tariffs implemented for protection in postwar enthusiasm

-but begins to test it, as South opposes it

-Tariffs > Tariff of 1828 seeks to divide support by forcing government to support unpopular tariff

-it does and Harrison signs it as regards it as constitutional

-in postwar environment this gets passed with only partial resentment

-includes tariffs on wool and other raw goods at expense of burgeoning industry, motivates issuing of new tariff later on

-runs for a third term in the name of calming constitutional chaos

-wins a landslide with several westerly parts of South concurring

-Secretary Henry Clay seeks to combine several grievances into a single Compromise of 1829

-Illinois (by now conciliatory) to be incorporated as a slave state

-the parallel 36°30' made dividing line between slave and free territory in Luisiana, declared a "compact"

-pretty huge win for free soilers

-Fugitive Slave Act established

-federal commissioners commissioners to assemble juries to judge whether slave is indeed so

-but with each juror paid with bribe of one dollar if jury rules it's a slave

-and essentially the accused must prove they are free

-additionally segmenting Luisiana into several latitude-blocks for graduated settlement

-to avoid fears of some sort of dispersal of the US's population

-after failed omnibus bill, successfully passes them through by breaking them up

-and some parliamentary hijinks

-enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act ends up a tough effort

-some very high-profile escapes and some high-profile jury nullifications

-this then leads to attempts at jury packing with disastrous results

-to maintain southern support

-but this culminates in Harrison successfully trumpeting the rights of a jury

-in next four years Harrison seeks to focus on industrial growth

-Erects turnpikes like American Infrastructure > National Road, gets to work to open up Mississippi to boat access, funds American Infrastructure > Pennsylvania Mainline Canal

-settlement with new British Isles regime after British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9), in Lowndes-Tierney Treaty of 1830

-extremely pro-US borders established

-reciprocity between the US and British North America made the law

-set at 49th parallel, maximum maine border, representative of fresh new wave of good relations

-additionally two agree on principle to promote sovereignty of Spanish colonies once independent

-the Lowndes-Tierney Declaration declares that, once a colony in the Americas becomes independent once, it becomes forever independent

-but then relations worsen after Heads of British Isles > 1829-1831 John Spencer, Lord Althorp (Whig) administration abolishes slavery

-South fears this and the specter about it a lot, this fuels the increasingly powerful ultra proslavery movement

-Southern filibusters prop up and prevent new government from taking power in much of West Indies

-particularly Bahamas

-increasingly unhappy with the tariff regime preventing the establishment of a consolidated economy with them

-endorses bill allowing sale of federal lands with bulk of profits going to states, with lots of benefit to south

-does finance freed black and manumitted black move to east africa from govts that want it - virginia, kentucky, maryland, and delaware

-after maryland sees slave rebellion, movements for abolition grow in border south, results in enlargened movement for manumission and whitening

-in maryland ban of introducing new sales, and many sell slaves southwards

-colonization also focuses more on sending black women to decrease pop

-focused on maryland due to it fearing rebellion the most

-but in the end not enough to bring about immediate emancipation

-rising sentiments of anti-catholicism

-during the war, due to cut off of immigration, wages go up, attract rural people (who are wooed by industrialists) to cities

-proletarianization of independent artisans as well

-market revolution

-suddenly irish and german people come in, and serve as competition, push wages down

-potato blight comes in late 1820s instead of 1840s

-results in anti-catholic wave due to their sheer size

-increases even more following admission of orleans state, because for the first time the us has a catholic-majority state

-clay accused of being pro-catholic as a result

-many respectable politicians join

-results in rise of anti-catholic party, winning control of new york under samuel morse in 1831

-loses control following giant anti-catholic riots in 1833, including burning of catholic churches, denounced widely

-nominates presidential candidate (holds natl convention, unusual for its time), loses

-dissolves, but a lot of its membership come into rising opposition

-consequently, immigrants and black people support natreps (later unionists) despite a lot of hatred between irish, germans, and black people

-with annexation of Luisiana Indian removal becomes a major issue

-especially in Southwest where it's already been a major issue

-attempts to get them to agree to voluntary removal to Luisiana but they refuse

-in particular Georgia seeks to annex its Cherokee lands

-against this after Marshall Court rules in the Cherokees' affirmative Harrison sends federal army southwards to protect them

-not out of humanitarianism but because hates this states' rights nonsense

-when there's a skirmish between Troup's forces and the federals, this causes a national backlash and Troup backs down

-however when Georgians discover gold in Country folders/Americas/United States/Economy/Mineral rushes > Georgia Gold Rush (1831), Harrison forces the Cherokee to accept land losses in return for continued support

-forces a lot of Cherokee into Appalachians to protect their lives against these mobs the federal forces are doing nothing to protect against

-and also results in a considerable out-migration into Texas

-crisis sizzling here and feeds into tariff issue

-in contrast elsewhere land stresses not quite as great but there is a gradual encroachment

-tariff issue increases in magnitude thanks to growing fears of abolitionist Britain

-and also because it prevents the establishment of a consolidated economy with unstable West Indies

-in 1829, South Carolina endorses the nullification of the tariff, as expounded in document made by John C. Calhoun

-Virginia, Georgia concur in its unconstitutionality

-attempts to resolve increasingly frantic tariff disputes by Tariffs > Tariff of 1830

-despite Lowndes' lobbying only somewhat reduces tariff in some areas (increasing in others)

-reduces on basic goods not prod locally like coffee, tea, spices, and wine

-increases in others prod locally like cotton, woolen goods, and iron

-in particular, maintains 200% tariff on wool which strongly benefits south

-but south carolina increasingly views tariffs with suspicion following abolition in British Isles

-Lowndes from the cabinet resigns after endorsing nullification

-Deep Southern Democrats split and join up with Republicans

-budding crisis, south carolina holds nullification convention, nullifies the tariff

-rest of south also anti-tariff for most part, but not to extremes of south carolina

-Southern Republicans almost resolute in opposition to tariff

-resolutions declaring it unconstitutional get passed by South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, and North Carolina

-additional movement to establish nullification conventions to pass it

-succeeds in South Carolina and Georgia

-and Virginia's government under way on getting it through despite divisions

-North Carolina similarly going through

-by 1832 resolutions pass, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, and North Carolina form a convention

-Harrison unable to get South Carolina on the table and thus whole 1832 election held with nullification as major issue

-additionally, South Carolina and Georgia recall their congressional delegations

-election sees glut of candidates seeking to win in hung ec, but clay wins large majority, including votes in south

-finally brings Lowndes and Calhoun to negotiation table

-afterwards congress issues Tariffs > Tariff of 1833, or the Compromise Tariff

-drastically lowering it, gradually until finally removed in 1842

-crisis ends with union seeming very weak and federal government seeming very collapsible

-next four years see general prosperity as Clay funds a whole lot of infrastructure projects in the South to conciliate it

-noted Ocoee-Conasauga River project to make Mobile a major port goes underway

-builds Second National Road between Washington and New Orleans among other projects

-canal projects in Georgia connect Savannah to most rivers in interior

-Savannah, Ogeechee, and Altamaha rivers connected

-patronage sees a new branch of southern officeholders associated with Democrats within major cities

-collapse of British banks results in Recessions > Panic of 1835, but by 1836 efforts of bank of us in ensuring liquidity able to create renewed economic prosperity

-but many banks close down due to it, resulting in bus becoming very prominent

-many banks become dependent on bus and loans from it, which are used to help bail them out

-gets some money for these loans from smaller banks by selling them bonds, helping reduce money supply in west

-land that falls into bus hands, clay is able to get government control over it through negotiations, paying well above market rate for it

-Recessions > Panic of 1835 affects the US little, because the Second Bank invested very little with unstable British banks

-and to extent it did, it means its loans mostly wiped out

-other banks below it, also loans wiped out

-and indeed, this if anything helps the US to have easier credit in years that follows

-missouri statehood is proposed in April 1836 with a constitution permitting slavery

-this is something the various Emigrant Aid Societies in North tried to stop but failed

-Adams Amendment to make it free state causes chaos, and it passes House with flying colors

-given that Compromise of 1829 happened, Delaware and Maryland senators vote for restriction

-with that it passes

-Missouri sufficiently pissed that it threatens independence

-election sees division of Democrats into northern Free Democratic Party and Southern Democrats

-Free Democrats affiliated with some northern Republicans

1836: hung electoral college: William Lowndes/Levi Woodbury (Republican), John Quincy Adams/Thomas Morris (Free Democratic), Henry Clay/Richard Rush (Straight-Out Democratic)

1837: (with Levi Woodbury) def. in contingent election John Quincy Adams/Thomas Morris (Free Democratic)

-essentially the lieutenant of John C. Calhoun

-but more likeable and stately

-Adams fails to consolidate northern opinion around him

-most notably his history as an Anti-Catholic haunts him

-plus anti-abolitionism successfully makes headway in the North at his expense

-plus he's not a man for the democratic age

-result is 1836 election ends up with a hung electoral college

-Missouri sends electoral votes (all for Lowndes) and Clay successfully organizes for ratification of EVs with and without it

-with ambiguity over whether it counts

-Clay successfully organizes for Southern Democrats to vote for Lowndes

-over Missouri, Lowndes and Calhoun successfully include it as a slave state

-simply by accepting its delegation as a fait accompli post-election

-results in a secession of the House of Free Democrats

-additional controversy over jury packing in the North

-results in several northern states refusing to recognize this

-jury nullification intensifies which only increases jury packing

-additionally free state settlers increasingly settle into Missouri

-in order to make it free

-this causes controversy and mass infighting in what's known as "Bloody Missouri"

-results in formation of a separate government in the state supported by the Free Democrats

-when Congressman William Leggett gives a vituperative speech condemning slavery, John Dawson attacks him

-with a knife, slits his throat

-people aghast at the sight of this congressman bleeding out

-radicalizes everyone further

-results in midterms being huge shellacking for northern Republicans and also northern straight-out Democrats

-sees a moderate Kentuckian Democrat win the nomination

-polarizes debates even more, all legislative decision comes to an end

-a moderate border southerner becomes speaker

-then when next election sees victory of Webster everything finally crashes

1844: (with James L. Petigru) def. William C. Rives/Levi Woodbury (Republican)

1848: (with James L. Petigru) def. John C. Calhoun/David Henshaw (Republican)

-restores clay’s economic policies to full extent

-establishes Tariffs > Tariff of 1845 which causes disgruntlement in south because viewed as settled issue

-federal government takes on debts from states suffering from debt

-including from Georgia and South Carolina

-about half of the debt of the several states

-allows for new booming era of internal improvements brewing

-though some of them do still have issues

-but rising (slave-powered) industry funded by bank investment, unionist presence means more southerners are pro-tariff, also more northerners anti-tariff

-due to european warfare, trans-caribbean slave trade cut off, and slaves traded to brazil instead sold to home markets

-value of slaves collapses massively, and as south has a lot of "wealth" calculated in terms of slaves, results in "economic" crisis

-in upper south, many slaves sold southwards, in context where slaves are viewed as investment slaveholders want to get "full value"

-with economy of virginia dependent on slave breeding, ravages it, results in investment in (slave-powered) industry

-similarly across rest of south there is more use of slaves in urban area due to there being very many

-in kentucky, maryland, and delaware, where bringing in further slaves is banned, this instead causes panic and slaves being sold downstream

-out of fear of attempt to allow further slaves in, as well as lowering value of slave affecting things in general

-Lowndes and Calhoun crush neo-nullificationist talk in south carolina over tariff because wants to make presidential run

-attempts to buy San Francisco, rebuffed by Spain

-south starts saber rattling about Texas Cuba, webster says no and his party has to work to maintain southern support

-there is big northern push for acquiring columbia despite weak us claim

-Webster sees that he can't really make a claim

-after much negotiation, does get britain to agree to giving usa a perpetual lease over olympia triangle by substantial payment for it

-hopes to bring columbia under american influence as friendly state through immigration

-guarantees the us the right to make roads to olympia, with webster aiming at transcontinental railroad one day

-lays out trail to oregon as far as possible, in effort to settle it as friendly state america, results in large settlement of mostly young men

-despite many viewing this negatively as a waste of money/betrayal, american commerce immediately is boosted by this pacific port

-With Webster viewed as threat to Missouri Compromise settlement, filibusters organized to nab for South more land

-expedition into Texas launched under a charismatic leader

-however, this expedition fails badly

-webster prosecutes hard those responsible

-controversial in south where some support filibusters but others view spain as fellow slaver and ally

-Orleans court votes to find accused innocent

-British Wars > New Granadine War of Independence (1848-52) breaks out, results in anxiety across south over it destroying slavery

-despite general support for new granadine independence

-webster anxious to avoid a british takeover of california

-british take monterey quickly, soon after war

-webster sends american ships to monterey to threaten intervention to drive them out

-after much negotiation, they leave in 1849

-ultimately, webster offers to mediate negotiations, accomplished in 1852 just before his death

-Calhoun partially reverts to nationalism, builds up south west coalition in name of internal improvements and low tariff

-due in part to grand success of charleston-cincinnati railroad

-also mentions texas a lot, to bring up spectre of british controlled texas breathing down us's neck

-threatens to drive out british from monterey if necessary

-wins nomination, ticks off northeast, only barely able to conciliate burenites

-plan emerge filibuster to texas with many army members assoc with it, pending his election and suspension of neutrality act

-webster includes preemption act in platform, decisive and important despite break with traditional unionist view of land distribution

-and successfully ties this to the tariff

-election proves closer than expected, but webster wins in the Middle West and this wins the day

-due to the US sending slaves to Portuguese Brazil following Bahia revolt, much of South's economy dependent on it

-and following France declaring war on Portugal and entirely cutting off slave trade during French Wars > Third French War (1847-54), this causes a sudden crash of slave prices

-due to slaves being most valuable asset in South, causes giant crash

-due to slaves being collateral used by Bank of the United States, results in Bank quickly getting massive amounts of slaves as "assets", becoming the largest slaveholder in the US

-in general, this low price for slaves results in slaves becoming much more widespread across social classes in South

-including mass use of slaves in industry

-and also many states try to stem this by having Kentucky-style import prohibitions

-and a panic of slaves sold south

-in general, also wreaks havoc on Northern ties with slave economy as institutions which heavily invested in south, and with it the slave as commodity, wrecked badly and avoid it in the future

-which also means that slave-powered industry, and the whole slave system, is now counterpoised to compete with the north

-to assure South, Webster gets Bank to send slaves owned by it into Fredonia

-to increase price of slaves

-a lot of slaves sent there

-and crisis eventually brought under control

-additionally, also because of French Wars > Third French War (1847-54), immigration cut off which results in labor issues in North

-to resolve this, industrialists look to poor white trash of South, recruit to bring them northwards to work in labor

-is pretty massive and South is fairly happy with this

-additionally poor whites have better lives in the North

-however, does worsen population ratio between North and South

-preemption act gets passed with difficulty despite southern unhappiness

-and land-grant colleges established

-in wake of Calhoun's defeat, south carolina legislature calls for organization of southern convention against tariff with his support

-initial talk of forming nullification convention right away fails

-due to rising merchant, trader, industrial class (risen due to railroad, rising industry) which views south carolina as tied to its neighbors

-indeed, part of this class is, while not okay with rise of tariff, acquaintanced to it

-delegates sent by legislatures of missouri, mississippi, virginia, georgia, and south carolina to charleston in 1850 to organize united support

-in contrast to missouri crisis, is not united action and in all states except south carolina is done over sizeable minority

-massively controversial and webster threatens force, even getting force bill through

-issues nullification proclamation, not only condemning nullification but also secession as unconstitutional

-results in some disgruntlement by south, including pro-tariff unionists who agree with logic of secession because they think might be needed if north gets too powerful

-but ultimately only disgruntlement, and crisis is for the most part brought under control

-midway georgia and virginia depart after unionists take control of legislatures and pull delegates

-after passing some resolutions moderated by non-sc presence, charleston convention dissolves

-smaller more radical convention meets dominated by sc, threatens secession, but dissolves afterwards because lone action not possible

-though south carolina disgruntled, cowed by Force Act and fact that most of south not with it

-in wake of second nullification crisis and southern disarray, Juniper (iowa) organized as territory with bill passing through congress with tight margins

-despite longstanding worry over illinois being almost surrounded by free soil

-some border southern senators reluctantly choose to abstain or vote for it, and some note it wouldn't mean total encirclement

-webster victorious, without compromise that Clay seeks to organize

-Juniper formed as free territory in 1849, having already had a degree of settlement

-missouri congress, threatened by free territory, votes that its border reaches des moines,

-soon afterwards, missourian tax collectors come in

-federal government, intent on observing the law, declares few slaves coming in should leave or be free

-Land Grant Act intensifies controversy, as settlers claim land both ways

-skirmishes between settlers breaks out near border

-this even includes bloodshed between Missouri militia and Juniper territorial settlers

-webster sends small military detachment, intent on enforcing the law in the territory and bringing in controversy to an end

-south being divided means it cannot support Missouri strong enough

-but Illinoians support it, bring slaves into Juniper to provoke constitutionality crisis, and though terr authorities free their slaves it provokes long court cases

-but in the end, missouri backs down and accepts a commission to demarcate boundary, votes Juniper side

-slaves brought in freed, but they find hostility in Juniper

-controversy comes to an end (not in the least because missouri divided on issue), but rising extremism in south

-talk of overturning missouri compromise, or even of federal slave code in the territories

-webster's national unity tour in south met with widespread applause, papering over this new issue

-revealed that directors of bank of the united states had a dummy investors scheme to get around investment cap

-they artificially inflated stock values and sold at the top for personal enrichment

-some claim he knew of this before renewing its charter, point to friend Samuel Appleton being president of bank

-webster initially denies this report, then when confirmed popular outrage forces him to push new appointments and replace them

-bank of us generally suffers as a result of less competent appointments, results in bank being overstretched

-crashes his popularity

-bank generally weakened by this

-however, soon afterwards, Webster revealed to be cartoonishly corrupt

-including accepting massive "loans" and selling appointments to highest bidder

-accepts ludicrous gifts, sells appointments in Secretaryship of State

-Democrats lose various elections in late 1851-2, due to a certain lack of confidence (but not all the way because v. personal)

-south sees some anger emerge over Juniper

-Great Shoemaker Strike of 1851 emerges, over introduction of sewing machine in 1840s

-thanks to rising industry, communication more generally

-earlier since rise of pneumatic, hydraulic tech results in these technologies getting combined earlier to use pnuematic, hydralic tech to make it better

-across Eastern Seaboard, spreading from Lynn Massachusetts across to Washington

-much of it even comes to President's Mansion

-Webster well known to be anti-strike, brings ire

-but in the end, strike comes to an end due to local opposition, police, despite some small opposition

-decides to be president rather than acting president

-because believes if he's acting president, it'll risk the negotiation efforts by stripping legitimacy

-but doesn't have time to do much before election

-nevertheless presides over "Webster's Last Achievement" - ratification of the Treaty of Washington ending British Wars > New Granadine War of Independence (1848-52)

-even convention occurred after webster died, so can't even become Unionist nominee

1852: (with Thomas Jefferson Rusk) def. Joseph Alston/Rufus Choate (Democratic), John P. Hale/Leicester King (Equal Rights)

1856: (with Thomas Jefferson Rusk) def. Edward Everett/Kenneth Rayner (Democratic), Abel P. Upshur/Robert Barnewell Smith (Whig)

-served as naval officer, for a while, involved in war scares with uk

-operated against slave trade in west africa, conquers cape montserrado for acs

-launched naval escapades during US's Wars > Luisiana War (1823-8) despite outstripped navy

-afterwards deeply involved in acs once more, naval protection etc.

-during US's Wars > Second Quasi War (1839-42) becomes commodore, involved in american raids in caribbean which makes him household name

-retires from navy afterwards, pike appoints him secretary of navy

-afterwards becomes new jersey senator, makes himself known for naval reform and charisma

-sweepingly defeats supreme court justice crittenden

-backs internal improvements deeply, helps create railway bubble that stockton himself puts stocks in

-is very much proslavery, rolls back Webster's more antislavery parts

-fugitive slave commissioners are now very much southerners, which causes immediate controversy as they engage in hijinks

-tries people already ruled not a slave, becomes court case as this violates dual jeopardy

-Supreme Court > Van Buren Court rules that dual jeopardy does not apply, as this is not a judicial but quasi-judicial body

-additionally engages in much-loathed practice of jury-packing that once caused much controversy

-seeks to make the US known as hemispheric power which includes slavery

-uses navy to defend Jamaica from "foreign control"

-establishes steamline to Belem in Grao-Para, signs treaty with Portugal

-this is to foster slave-powered development and to prevent other powers from coming through

-in Cuba, watches intently and establishes new slave-powered ties

-additional exportation of slaves to Texas, beyond Rio Grande

-due to webster's scandals, to prevent selling of civil service jobs proposals of civil service reforms

-but Republicans now reluctant due to them being in power

-instead some Democrats now support reform to restrict populist patronage

-not enough to get bill passed because unionist control of senate enough to block them

-but after midterms, Republicans get majority in senate and keep house

-results in Democrats, with some Republican support, passing radical civil service reform bill in lame duck session

-making all non-constitutional appointments subject to examination system

-however, killed with pocket veto and not revived

-rising power of railroad companies as they even found new cities in the West

-with many practically becoming real estate companies

-molding all forms of law in their image

-Ohio increasingly becomes an urbanized state (like the East), Indiana starting to follow it

-rising industrial chaos, strikes over railroads (largely localized), especially with end of railroad bubble

-due to rise of slavery in more and more occupations in south, poor white southerners squeezed out

-instead they move northwards and work in the several factories that pop up

-rise of slavery increasingly pointed to as cause of

-more suspicious of bank of us, believes it bad investment for the american people

-that its president is reverdy johnson, a Democrat, doesn't help

-when bank of us replaces administrators with others to resolve overstretching, they push period of retrenchment that causes economic chaos

-stockton turns firmly against administration bank of us, derides it constantly and plans to weaken it

-in congress proposes selling its stock as move to weaken it

-california gold rush means many of the old rationales for it obsolesced

-engages in a pretty huge scheme to buy up its shares

-a lot of this done by Southern slaveocrats and this helps intensify the Southern sheen of the Bank

-fights election primarily over bank of us issue, stance of opposition very popular

-Democrats put in backseat by this, forced to defend unpopular bank and thread the line between reform and conservation

-spain is issue that remains sublimated because it's largely southern, but stockton cannot ignore it

-Everett being a seeming new Webster means Stockton is able to get many southern votes

-ultimately wins sweeping landslide, takes it as mandate to reform the bank

-issues grand bill selling govt stock in bank to american investors

-banning further foreign investment, reduction of capital by one half

-retiring some foreign shares

and allowing freer note conversion

-(notes from one bank converted at another

-when a Supreme Court case comes the Supreme Court > Van Buren Court rules it constitutional

-but nevertheless largely popular as bank seems like less useful institution due to flow of money from govt

-stock (govt, bought up foreign shares) primarily sold to stockton's allies, results in bank being placed in hands of populists

-great damage to it, however, results in bank speculating in new schemes to regain lost money

-in contrast to its previous role in popping bubbles early, regulating finances etc.

-delaware issues manumission law in 1857, causes fear in the south and stockton is able to stop fear by admitting arkansaw without tied free state

-in 1857, act organizing nebraska as free territory passes congress

-gets vote from north, some border south, enough to pass barely

-causes some misgivings

-related act passes, funds railway to olympia by oregon trail to platte river (omaha), to independence -> st louis

-this route helps satisfy missourians

-opening of nebraska causes some controversy as missouri fears being surrounded by free soil territories

-results in stockton allowing filibuster attempt into cuba to go off

-ends up resulting in mass flood of missourian settlers, who seek to prevent northernization of west

-as well as cheap German construction workers along the northern part of the platte river

-reports of violence emerge, as well as sabotage of railroad by southerners fearful of north swallowing up south

-but not as much sabotage as one would fear, because of many missourians being happy about railroad from st. louis

-nevertheless many missourians want to avoid northern settlement of west, and so launch violent intimidation

-along border, many missourians enter, and through their numbers control election of delegate

-petitions for division of nebraska

-begins process of shifting indigenous peoples further east to open up kansas river lands

-filibuster movements increase in magnitude, particularly in south with desire to expand slave power

-spanish cuba seizes american ship, causing outrage across the us

-filibuster takes place into cuba with lots of american troop support, ends up taking up much land but in the end bullets and (esp) yellow fever do them in

-stockton declines to prosecute them for it, but careers ended and he declines to pursue issue further

-but also in north, due to california, support emerges there in its wake

-major rebellion in california emerges among anglophones with ample support from american consul for the rebels

-results in diplomatic crisis

-spain decides to go to the table and pays a great deal of compensation

-after California rebellion crushed, american honour deemed satisfied

-notably, Republic of Jamaica (now under the control of American filibuster William Walker) applies for admission into the Union

-with filibuster having been supported, stabilized, directly afterwards

-treaty voted down, Stockton accepts this

-a lot of Northern Republicans opposing this due to their opposition to slavery

-and just enough Southern Democrats also oppose it

-gold rush initially boosts economy greatly, allows stockton to weaken bank of us on basis that hard currency much more viable

-promotes industrial development despite misgivings from his own party, and expands on internal improvements

-sends fleet to Buenos Aires to keep spain from defeating third platinean war of independence

-but economic crisis occurs related to overspeculation in railway investments in 1858, people quickly point to stockton's railway company investments doing well

-railways recoup profits by raising rates, causes chaos and movement for regulation of railroad rates

-and an emergence of strikes across railroads, as well as large amounts of unionization

-in particular, rise of Ancient Noble Order of United Workingmen

-all of this suppressed hard

-stockton attempts to regain popularity by moral grandstanding over spanish territories, causes south to stick with him

-causing defeat in 1860 elections for Democrats despite weakness of union party at same time

1860: (with Henry Gardner) def. Henry A. Wise/Daniel S. Dickinson (Republican), Joshua Giddings/Henry Wilson (Young America)

-elected after economic crash, but by surprisingly narrow margins

-Young America (rebranded and expanded Equal Rights Party) spikes over both parties being slaveholding, unionists being soft on filibuster issue (to attract southern votes)

-enforces neutrality act, filibustering stops

-further internal improvements and stuff, but stockton's fusionist policies weaken unionist party cohesion greatly

-when bill making superior a state - a free state - comes up, results in acrimony but menefee lays it off until west florida comes up and gets both through

-despite much of south voting no, and despite anxiety over senate

-that Menefee is a Cotton Democrat, not a Conscience Democrat becomes more clear

-when he continues to appoint slaveocrats as Fugitive Slave Act commissioners

-controversy pops up as organized missourians with muskets march across the border to Nibrasca, use the homestead act to occupy best land

-a lot of of them even bring slaves

-with Missouri being very much slavery dominated this results in massive plantations popping up in quick succession including on the Platte River

-north of platte river, dominated by northerners (many irish and Germans) due to railroad being constructed there

-and they take advantage of Land Grant Acts > Preemption Act (1850)

-menefee is intent on enforcing the law on the subject, results in suit being brought up with slave, slaveowner intentionally sets it in Illinois

-here, a slave state

-Illinois court rules slave free, resulting in widespread scorn

-appealed to supreme court, which rules him a slave

-case is taken to supreme court, which narrows judgement to Illinois law and rules it is binding, therefore he continues to be slave

-to cool the controversy, menefee secures organic act dividing Nibrasca into Nibrasca and Kances, with division of platte river, to keep two separate

-met with intense scorn by many northern unionists but menefee has barely enough votes to succeed, though it badly divides party

-enough northern support because many say it'll empower the northern interests, and also it'll reduce southern horror at military

-many northern unionists end up much more antislavery as a result, many openly condemning menefee

-elections end up badly in Kances due to widespread electoral fraud, slaver majority

-as well as massive number of slaveowners having crossed

-kansas passes slave code citing missouri compromise "unconstitutionality"

-towards end of his presidency

-and case on the subject ends up going to supreme court

-after viceroyalty of new Spain’s provincias internas (Texas, New Mexico, California, New Navarre, new vizcaya, Coahuila, new Leon, and new Santander) declares independence as United Provinces of Buenaventura, Menefee declares support

-but Buenaventura also abolishes slavery including in texan plantations, causing staunch southern opposition to what is viewed as attack on slavery

-southerners in both parties support spain

-1864 DNC ends up being a disaster as Menefee faced with charismatic Conscience Democrat Thomas Wilson Dorr

-result takes in a massive number of ballots

-Menefee's praise of Buenaventura doesn't help him win many votes and instead he loses southern votes

-ultimately he pulls himself from the run to be replaced by another slave stater

-overrepresentation of south in unionist conv esp. relative to congressional representation means southerner gets in with help of some north

-though he doesn't run in next election and endorses next unionist nom, anti-slavery unionists join up with abolitionists to create anti-slavery ticket

-results in party defeated, lots of vote splitting occurs

1864: hung electoral college: George Washington Woodward/James L. Orr (Republican), Thomas Wilson Dorr/Salmon P. Chase (Free Democratic), James C. Jones/Robert C. Winthrop (Southern Democratic)

1865: (with James L. Orr) def. in contingent election Thomas Wilson Dorr/Salmon P. Chase (Free Democratic)

-served as chief justice before being elected

-kept his mouth shut during buenaventura controversy, and moderated slave case ruling in keeping with populist policy

-hung electoral college with woodward plurality

-in congress, woodward wins election on basis of southern Democrats voting for him

-with divided north and united south, wins by lopsided margins

-politics very obscure and he's assumed to be moderate, but turns out to be ultra-doughface on verge of being calhounite

-declares neutrality in Buenaventura's Wars > Buenaventuran War of Independence (1864-7), but many American volunteers still join up with comunero rebels but south helps give arms to spanish, results in shooting war involving americans over slavery

-enforces neutrality act over americans supporting buenaveturan rebels

-Buenaventura issue becomes explosive in the halls of Congress, south accuses it of being part of anti slavery conspiracy

-but ultimately through much effort recognition of Buenaventura is revoked by Congress, but now it gets accused of being part of slave power

-prosecutes american volunteers for violating neutrality act, juries often nullify it but causes much furor, especially since slaver volunteers not tried

-attempts to maintain slavery in texas by proposing purchase from spain, to revulsion and horror from north, while spain emphatically refuses this

-leaked from diplomatic department

-case on Kances slave code goes to the supreme court

-strikes down missouri compromise entirely, to allow slavery across the territories as a right of American citizens

-with bill of rights incorporated under due process, this also applies to states

-making slavery essentially legal everywhere (rather, transit and sojourn) which causes massive crisis in the north

-woodward recognizes this as valid, enforces this despite massive amounts of controversy to this

-northerners moving in (slower since railway through st. louis) end up fighting with missourians over this issue, resulting in bloodshed

-and slaveowners move northwards into Middle West and even beyond, with massive unpopularity despite state laws against it

-and despite juries fighting against it

-federal courts, dominated by southerners and doughfaces, enforce this

-Underground Railroad moves northwards to Canada

-in kansas elections, his men continually recognize electoral fraud by southerners as legit

-Order of United Workingmen responds, and strikes in 1867 against railroad companies turn massive

-after longstanding grievances, in part in response to competition with slave-powered labor of south

-spread across the North, and into Missouri and Washington

-militias formed are of only partial loyalty

-even including infighting between militias from diff cities, firing on one another

-massive disorder culminates in Woodward calling in regulars to suppress riots, strikebreakers called in

-only some of the troops end up disloyal, and for the most part strike broken

-but this also results in troops posted across the nation, militias armed, in time for the election

-and states having posted their troops everywhere

-following maryland issuing manumission law in 1867, there is major chaos over it, and "balance" at risk

-dough faces become heavily hated, lose in midterms, northern unionists and some northern populists increasingly ally with abolitionist lobby against slave power

-establishes east florida, cimarron as states despite questions over fradulent referenda including many non-resident voters

-uses statehood of superior as bribe to get them in

-is able to pull southern unionists to support this bill, destroying any attempts at cooperation with free democrats in the process

-congress blocks woodward's agenda, woodward vetoes all of congress's attempted legislation

-after Buenaventura wins independence, woodward refuses to recognize it

-instead condemning it as a rebel regime, to anger of north

-after 1866 midterms House of Representatives sees massive deadlock on electing a speaker

-all congressional discussion has paused

-and has caused massive political chaos

-over two hundred ballots

-in 1868 Senator Joshua Giddings gives a vitriolic speech in favor of the Comuneros and praises them for stopping the Slave Power in their country and calls for the same in the US

-Senator Henry A. Edmundson replies by unbuttoning his jacket, pulling out a bowie knife, and stabbing Joshua Giddings

-when Northern senators try to intervene, another southern Senator pulls out a gun and threatens to shoot

-after they keep going fires a warning shot up, cracks the glass ceiling, though people shield themselves with their jackets successfully

-stops people from interfering

-Giddings successfully stabbed to death, bleeds out on the Senate floor

-Edmundson resigns from office, placed on trial, acquitted by Southron-dominated jury, and reelected

-complete with advisory popular vote seeing him win high-turnout landslide

-the Populist-dominated Senate decides not to eject him

-this in turn causes the secession of the free democrat senators but not enough to deny quorum

-after Giddings' stabbing, sees division of Congress into two different bodies after election of free democrat speaker

-Woodward decides to exclusively recognize the Populist body

-free democrats ejected, they meet in temporary "Wigwam" structure nearby

-the free democrat Committee of Vigilance declares itself the Committee of Safety in the tradition of the Revolution

-free democrat Congress continues to meet

-initially neither side willing to pull the trigger

-in order to end free democrat Congress's claimed quorum, Woodward conducts mass arrests of its members

-goes off badly, only eleven of them arrested and treated like hostages

-free democrats flee to Philadelphia to take on aura of the original American Revolution

-declares the government of Woodward illegal and call for resistance against it

-convenes army under state-appointed officials, in clear preparation for war

-against this, Woodward sends army to overthrow the Philadelphia government

-before it can cause any more trouble in his eyes

-repulsed in part because not enough soldiers heed call, in part because local Comunero defences suffice

-sees declaration of war, end of the tenuous peace

-united states divided into two governments, the Constitutionalist Government, and the Richmond Government

-also impeaches and removes woodward from office

-along with his southern VP

-this makes the President Pro Tempore of the Senate the acting president, or more simply president

-godson of the great Daniel Webster

-but attains fame on his own terms

-made his name as a charismatic supporter of his godfather and the whole Democratic Party

-when Webster becomes president, Fessenden serves as highly important congressman

-and deputy of Webster in the house

-later becomes a Senator for Massachusetts

-where his stunning oratory makes him a leading Northern Unionist and later a Dorrite

-extremely bellicose rhetoric makes him extremely popular

-becomes President of the Committee of Vigilance after separation

-which organizes northern resistance to "King George IV"

-after Woodward suppresses the Wigwam Congress Fessenden issues declaration of resistance

-convenes it in Philadelphia

-refuses any and all talk of compromise even if that means hostages are killed

-Committee of Vigilance becomes Committee of Safety for the whole nation

-engages in military plans against invasion and faces off in Battle of Chester which wins

-had previously served as President of the Committee of Safety

-made President Pro Tempore of the Senate so that he also becomes president upon swift impeachment

-ascent to office only recognized by philadelphia congress, but nonetheless provides for military preparation and beginning of war

-and in practice authority continues to be held within Committee of Safety

-revokes territorial governors, everywhere except east florida is successful

-oversees era of military preparation

-secures recognition from most northern states

-and organizes an army waiting for more war to begin

-with a lot of defections from governmental units

-but then again peacetime army is pretty small anyways

-in practice a lot of army consists of Comunero Order members

-Kances has revolution over this, as slaver controlled territorial assembly sees massive rebellion by comunero rebels

-and Frank Townes gets commission from Johnson government in Constitutional Government > Constitutional Army

-when Indianan governor castigates johnson and calls woodward rightful pres, johnson gets Indiana congress to say no

-brings kansas on path to union

-baltimore falls, but swathes of maryland stays loyal

-upon election ends up not being nominated

-considered too radical and people worry he'll end up being alienating

-due to aggressive maneuvers

-additionally he regards the post of presidency as ungentlemanly and the legislature his home

-result is that the most moderate member of the Committee of Safety made next president

-for rest of his life Fessenden is a quite hard working Senator and very powerful

-dies in 1873 with death widely mourned

1868: (with Henry Winter Davis) def. Richard Menefee/Thomas Ewing (Straight-Out Democratic)

Note: This election was held during the opening salvo of the Liberty and Union War (1868-76). This was merely the election held by the Constitutional Government.

-moderate free democrat, broke with Populists very recently

-nominated because he's very moderate, need to unify coalition of Constitutional Government as much as possible

-goes on criss-crossing national tour, gives fairly well-respected speeches

-in prelude to officially taking office

-essentially a plan to ensure he gets enough support from the people at large

-but nevertheless receives groundswell of support from paramilitary organization, "Comunero Clubs" formed by volunteer veterans of buenaventura war

-practically speaking the Straight-Out Unionists with their agenda of national compromise are a weak impotent opposition

-guarded every step of the way by Comunero troops

-election confirmed by congress session in philadelphia, however slavers have majority of senators

-swiftly assembled armies, navy, and declared the southern congress in dc illegitimate but much damage already done

-it's pretty tough to organize the Constitutional Government > Constitutional Army

-but with some difficulty including having to hand out blank commissions to governors does so

-a lot of political generals emerge

-also brings a great number of factories to work to make arms

-harpers ferry arsenal seized by richmondites

-arms given to baltimore richmondites, kicks off rebellion that takes over city before being crushed

-numerous countries declare the government of usa to be unclear

-because Washington is under control of continuous Woodward administration which hands power over

-Britain under Heads of British Isles > 1864-1869 George Grey (Moderate) † which views Richmondites as kin recognizes Richmond Government

-this immediately means the Constitutionalists are on the backfoot

-nevertheless deflected attempts in border states like his own maryland, also illinois, to join southern government

-a year into presidency a charge took dc and brought it back under legitimate rule, southern congress forced into richmond, though they take documents, seals with them in flight

-congress formally meets in dc once more in its hallowed halls

-remembered to posterity as great American hero

-who saw the light of abolition before he died for the country

1872: (with Samuel Tilden) def. Washington Hunt/Mark M. Pomeroy (Compromise)

-marylander, avowed supporter and follower of henry clay and his ideals

-hates abolitionists for most of his life, regards them as rabid despite belief in eventual emancipation

-supports recognition of buenaventura in major break with southern unionist stance, trumpets their fight against spanish despotism as like america's own

-does not support jones in 1864 election

-and votes for Dorr in contingent election

-which is decisive in shaping people's view of him

-refuses to be like other southern unionists who join populists, instead he joins up with oppositionist candidates

-gets elected senator by oppositionist govt in maryland

-opposes bill making kansas slaveowning, makes him friend of northern oppositionists further

-opposes court case allowing slaveowners transit across states

-opposes blatant fraud in cimarron and east florida statehood referenda

-when free democrat national convention occurs, attends in attempt to moderate it

-nominated as Vice President, as youngish moderate candidate selected to keep from shaking the boat too much

-and to reassure the South (failed)

-more moderate than party, but that does not reassure south one bit and letters fly about violently keeping free democrats out of power

-becomes president following Bancroft's death

-Davis ends up being very radical, far more than people would have expected

-leaves office in 1877, seeking congressional career to complete reconstruction

-because though free democrat convention happens before war ends, it's pretty obvious war is reaching its end

-davis lays groundwork for radical reconstruction before his terms come to an end including land reform to freedmen, leaves office a massive hero

-goes on to serve as senator with lots of soft power until overworking himself to death in idk 1882

1876 (with Curran Emmet) def. Andrew Johnson/Samuel J. Randall (Restoration)

-served as successful War Governor for Michigan

-well-noted for suppressing anti-Colored riots in Miami [Toledo]

-as well as for enacting full colorblind suffrage

-fought for radical reconstruction of south

-amends constitution to avoid constitutional coups, also establish equality

-after southern constitutional conventions prove shit, causes radicalism further and enforcement acts against terror attacks

-establishment of education systems in south

-variously with Colored and white schools

-ratifying amendment made price of readmission

-however, too much violence and even attempt to establish quasi-territorial legislatures not entirely successful

-expands settlement west, enforces homestead act across 100th meridian (is wet period so it's a success - for now)

-notably, sees the rise of the Country folders/Americas/United States/Economy/Mineral rushes > Pikes Peak Gold Rush (1878)

-which does more than anything to bring in settlers across the border

-makes laws for mining licensing on public land

-also begins to buy up gold for the purpose of making loans abroad with it

-in anti-corporate gesture, refuses to sell off nationalized railroads and enforces maximum railroad rates

-with financial chaos of war years having meant that old bank notes are now worthless, the rich, including railroad owners, lost it

-resulted in many of railroads being in the hands of the government

-terror attacks increase, crushed hard

-Saskatchewan Metis rebellion in Canada (Heads of Laurentia > ^baf9ec) supported by Cree who cross border in its support, crushed after a lot of difficulty, causes scandal

-Canadian regiments cross border, inspiring crisis and Canadian govt paying indemnity thanks to swift diplomacy

-also cavalry surge in region

-during and following Antillean War (1880-4), need to use army against outside results in numerous army regiments being transferred to Civil Guard

-sees migration of Metis into North-West Indian Territory

-assassinated by white supremacist terrorist while at centennial expo in philly (World Expo > 1879 Centennial Festival (Philadelphia))

-terrorist worked as part of cell calling itself "Knights of the White Magnolia", claims loyalty to the congress over the water

1880 (with John F. Hartranft) def. Samuel Tilden/Darius N. Couch (National Stability), Samuel Fenton Cary/William Daniel (Prohibition)

1884 (with John F. Hartranft) def. George A. Custer/Edward P. Allis, /John Quincy Adams II (Custer Republican)

1885: New Constitution adopted; presidents restricted to six year terms without reelection, vice presidency abolished

-full name John Philpot Curran Emmet (Curran Emmet)

-son of Thomas Addis Emmet, a United Irishman exile, and nephew of Irish nationalist martyr Robert Emmet

-long involved in antislavery politics

-arose to power on back of assassination, waves bloody shirt of his predecessor when pushing reforms

-swiftly holds inauguration and gives a speech transmitted immediately over telegraph

-to assure the public that there is still authority

-receives recognition from all the governors as well

-sees first of the White Knight rebellions in the South

-angers the North hard and results in new army movement down south to suppress them

-formally divides the Army into an exterior Army and a Civil Guard

-with the Civil Guard for largely internal uses and general policing

-this is because it makes the army seem smaller now that it's been cut up

-and also so that it can get to work deploying the army in prep for war with Spain

-also sees rebellion in Tahosa to massive northern anger

-results in new laws to tighten mining laws

-war frenzy to liberate cuba to expel richmondite exiles in wake of assassination

-spanish tentative attempts to remove congress over the water not enough

-us recognizes cuban rebels as legitimate government

-speed gathers ironclads in gulf ports, and despite supply issues (worsened by destroyed railroads) gathers soldiers in new orleans, mobile, appalachicola, pensacola thru waterways

-arms funneled to spanish haiti, sent to independentist rebels

-holds extended attempts to negotiate with Spain

-in truth this is more showmanship than real negotiation to buy time to build up something of a navy

-and because it's pretty clear that Spain would totally own the US if war occurs too early

-and simultaneously he assures supporters of intervention that this is just showmanship while he builds up a navy

-after failed attempts to negotiate, spanish capture of us merchant vessel and speed impressed by military readiness results in war in mid 1880 and outbreak of Antillean War (1880-4)

-In the war

-spanish attacks on ports halted by competent fleet but after extreme difficulty

-the US has some pretty severe logistical issues due to wrecked railroads

-but eventually it does prevail by sending troops down south and all

-american vessels land on cuba

-which isn't all that hard because it's actually pretty close to the US

-troops battle and defeat spanish forces in alliance with cuban revolutionaries

-similarly force invades puerto rico in alliance with rebels there

-by 1883, spain driven to the peace table, in effort to keep mexico in their hands concedes independence of cuba, puerto rico

-continues to own railroad shares, establishing public-private partnerships

-to increase profits (decreased due to rate caps), railroads involved in massive land speculation

-which results in growing anger against railroads as an institution

-increasingly consolidates government-owned railroads into a singular authority with this move

-and wartime only enhances this further

-which culminates in formation of Railroad Company of the United States after a lot of negotiation and stock consolidation

-part of a general plan to establish a singular railroad system under the direct supervision of the government in order to bind the nation together

-expands settlement of west further, engages in wars with native americans with goal in forcing them into reservations in minasota

-establishes National University of the United States of America incorporating smithsonian into it, funds new constituent colleges in various cities

-but scotus strikes it down as unconstitutional, govt ignores it and continues building anyways

-results in scotus formally censuring government

-despite Congress issuing act confirming government action

-results in more states, issuing declarations for an Article V Convention

-government-led effort for railroad construction to the west, with rapid land speculation emerging

-wins re-election despite party split of "moderate" faction that joins up with certain populists, forms unionist party

-further corruption scandals occur but fights against them hard, issues civil service reforms

-scandal over war profiteering by Secretary of the Treasury

-sees Emmet fire him

-but sotr is powerful figure and brings his people within party against Emmet

-states get readmitted into the union with unprecedented black involvement in them

-also many northerners who move southward with southerners having vacated their plantations into exile

-bahia links get established, due in part to german unification war weakening bahia's european links

-endorsement of money untethered to specie (civil war, without california and with having to create govt w/o wash, leads to gold standard dying) leads goldbugs to break from party in disgust

-major slowdown in immigration caused by French Wars > Fourth French War (1880-4)

-helps cause commercial slowdown

-as well as increasing wages which comes on to consumers

-run for president in 1884, despite too many enemies made due to his prosecution of free democrat corruption he runs and wins

-white supremacist violence continues to intensify, 1884 election unprecedentedly violent affair but republicans win convincingly

-with Constitution of the United States (1885), term cut by two years

-in a compromise to get it through

1886 def. Stephen Decatur Hancock (Hancock Republican), John St. John (Prohibition), Jacob D. Cox (Redemption)

-despite illinois being slave state, logan is not some big slaveholder, is part of yeoman farmer class

-serves for most of his life as a mild supporter of the slave power, but as with otl is not fully on board that

-serves as a Populist, but one who joins up with Menefee

-because the Slave Power is too much for him in its sheer extremism

-upon the Liberty and Union War (1868-76), his opposition to state government makes him a Constitutionalist, and he becomes a political general

-a very very successful one

-with end, serves as Commandant-General of the Order of the Comunero

-also firmly supports black suffrage

-eventually, volunteers and joins the US military with the Antillian War

-with the end, returns with the air of martial glory

-selected as free democrat nominee on basis of him being fairly successful general

-who has been aloof from grand fights of Emmet era

-end of Antillean War (1880-4) sees an influx of Colored immigrants from slave trade from Cuba coming

-many of them move to the North in unprecedented wave

-they get integrated into existing Colored free democrat machines

-despite revulsion of existing Northern Coloreds to these "semi-savage" and semi-Catholicized people

-results in racist backlash including in the North, with riots

-reacts by sending Civil Guard northwards

-successfully portrays the riots as driven by a conspiracy of White Knights

-Logan decides to instead direct them southwards through ships to and from the South

-particularly Charleston

-which begins general trend towards urbanization

-when many of them bring with them yellow fever causes major push towards looking for treatment

-white supremacist violence results in movement to strengthen election laws

-issues force act making it federal responsibility to enforce free and fair elections

-results in army being divided into two, with one with civilian responsibility like a gendarmerie - "Civil Guard"

-however, force act gets struck down by supreme court

-results in amendment authorizing the federal government to ensure security of elections

-violence settles down as biracial system gets established

-drought emerges west of 100th meridian, many homesteaders give up land, railroads lose profits, resulting in panic of 1891

-worsened by existing problems of specie leaving the us

-results in "closing of the west" in the eyes of many as lands east of meridian gets largely settled and it seems the us is to be an urban country

-establishes links with newly independent mexico, philippines, much closer links established with mexico

-at the same time strikes grow in scale, along with union activity

-won re-election by large margin, white supremacist terrorism in stark decline

-launches intervention in new granadine civil war to secure panama for canal route in contrast to spanish-british project in nicaragua

-passes antitrust act, in practice it does fuck all

-dies of rheumatism

-served as Secretary of State

-as a career bureaucrat

-sponsors formation of missouri valley authority to manage water usage and - maybe - make the desert bloom

-bankrupt independent railroads bailed by federal govt (which buys stocks), and finally the further consolidation of these railroads into the Railroad Company of the United States, consolidating federal holdings in railroads into a singular company

1892 def. Felix Vaniman (Aeronautic), John M. Palmer (Independent Democratic), xxxxx (Prohibition), Charles F. Adams Jr. (Redemption)

-a lawyer in Pennylvania

-as a young man, volunteers as a Comunero in the Buenaventura's Wars > Buenaventuran War of Independence (1864-7)

-leads several campaigns and fairly successful

-upon returning leads the local Order of the Comunero lodge in Chester

-upon war, is core part of Battle of Chester

-makes him a war hero almost overnight

-becomes leading officer in Liberty and Union War (1868-76)

-and continues to serve in a military capacity here

-despite new constitution nominating convention still held

-large section of free democrats support an independent ticket

-section breaks off, but some return

-eventual union of sections

-additionally the first man who crossed the Atlantic in Aeronautics > Lighter than air aircraft gets drafted and does pretty well

-free democrats still win overwhelming majority in election

-sees most astonishing event of Supreme Court entirely dismissed under new constitution and replaced

-despite some bickering widely viewed as a legitimate affair

-leads charge in International Interventions > Intervention in Grao-Para (1897-8) after atrocities unveiled, troops take over

-ends up with it mostly taken over and internationalized, us gets to appoint councillors to its council of administration

-congress over the water (already effectively turning into a social club) collapses, arrests of members

-people who flee to portuguese pernambuco get turned over

-at home, marks decisive end of reconstruction insurgency as groups lose morale, collapse

-with drought in far west not ending, rising movement for opening north-west indian territory for settlement

-Pennypacker is reluctant to do it, results in rising movement for opening it in west which makes itself known in form of oppositionism

-also rising movement for its statehood emerges

-in 1898 election an independent admiral campaign happens to take advantage of war effort

-but loses, free democrats are high on war victory

1898 def. George Dewey (Dewey Republican), Moorfield Storey (Free Trade), xxxxx (Prohibition)

-similar ancestry to Fred T. Dubois

-military experience in liberty and union war, antillean war, before getting drafted as governor, serves with reformist agenda

-as president, opens up north-west indian territory to settlement, soon afterwards white-native coalition pushes for statehood which he accepts

-with end of Russo-Chinese War (1893-9), a lot of Russian refugees come

-they bring with them cattle, infected with rinderpest

-with railroads they get spread across the US

-suddenly in this era most American cattle drops dead

-beef, dairy becomes way more expensive

-a considerable financial strain

-as a substitute Dubois promotes mutton and later, in particular, buffalo meat

1904 def. William E. Russell (Free Trade)

-son of British nonconformist immigrants named in honor of the Lord Protector

-government is tired and essentially run by his Secretary of State

-sees corruption scandals

-but opposition just not strong enough to defeat his successor

1910 def. Henry Cabot Lodge (Free Trade)

-son of German naturalized immigrants, and a general

-sees Recessions > Panic of 1911 and ensuing Great Depression

-is dismally ineffective and trade policies help cause gigantic trade war

-and at same time Currency > Greenback sees deflation from Bank of the United States policies

1916 def.

-against Great Depression blames federal spending and enacts large scale cuts

-also enacts a Land Value Tax

-which prevents deficits

-major military putsch attempt which causes violence in Washington before it's suppressed

-coup only has partial support from military and not from Field Marshal

-also opposed from Civil Guard hard

-condemned by free democrats but does not stop major backlash against them in this era

-eventually does increase spending and economy sees a recovery albeit a slow one

1922 def. (Free Democratic), (Association of Mechanics and Farmers)

-son of this guy

-reaction to Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 widely regarded as catastrophic and feeble

-in contrast to more vigor of governors

1928 def. Charles E. Merriam (Free Trade)

-an Independent Catholic

-albeit a Cajun

-which is just Protestant enough for him to be electable

-as governor of Orleans, leads highly successful reaction to Great Mississippi Flood

-and successfully jumps from plaudits of that to nomination from the rudderless Free Democratic Party and ultimately to victory

-pumps new projects and funding into national economy

-which fuels the economic boom of the era further

-faced with Polvamiento coarsing through west

-thanks to Interior overfarming

-declares martial law to enforce good farming, establishes incentives for people to move out

-does reduce dust storms and a lot of people have moved out

-agitation for resolving "rural question", strengthens movement for establishing rural equiv for cities

1934 def. Robert G. Menzies (Free Trade)

-finally seeks to resolve the "rural question" of cities having representation and rural areas not except within states and federal government dominated by cities

-successfully amends constitution to group areas outside federal cities into cantons with their own assemblies with powers of property taxation

-cities now considered a "special" type of canton

1940 def.

-descended from Cornish miners who made it big in Country folders/Americas/United States/Economy/Mineral rushes > Pikes Peak Gold Rush (1878)

-becomes leading politician of the area based on his charisma

-and being opponent of old free democrat establishment

-end of French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41) has economic aftershocks that travel across the ocean

-result in a recession around 1944

-Menzies breaks from normal party policy by accepting some degree of spending to combat this crisis

-but consumer confidence badly shaken and it means his successor defeated

-there's a massive immigration surge due to latent immigration stopped by war suddenly coming

-results in a housing crisis and accused of depressing wages

1946 def.

-embarks on huge mission to restrict immigration

-eventual Immigration and Naturalization Act 1949 establishes rate limits on immigration

-and a preference towards relatives of immigrants which causes chain immigration

-ultimately dies of a heart attack in 1950

1952 def.

-prominent female politician who served in House since 1920s

-and rose to influential position within committees

-then got appointed as first female SoS in history before becoming pres after predecessor dies in April 1949

-daughter of Italian (Independent Catholic) immigrants

-and married to an Italian as well

-first female president

1958 def.

-first Colored president

-deliberately selected as such to win Colored votes from free democrats (doesn't succeed) and outdo Gervasi

-father is a Czech immigrant and mother is a Colored woman

-despite being proud of his Colored ancestry he does not want to be a "Colored president"

-leading Congressman who became a leading member of the Free Traders in this role

1964 def.

1970 def.

-first Asian president

-comes from old Japanese whaling family that moved to the US

-became a pretty significant minority in many parts of New England including his Rhode Island

-wins governorship of state

-and from there ascended to the presidency

† Died of natural causes

‡ Assassinated

-when American Presidents > 1809-1817 Aaron Burr (Republican, then Democratic) truly split from Republicans over 1812 election Burr builds up allies he's made into party

-patronage used to build up party in south

-westerners who prefer Burr's pro-infrastructure policies

-plus he expands Tammany societies

-in 1816 the new Democratic Party assembles a National Convention of party representatives and not just caucus

-also includes several delegations from Federalists who prefer Burr over Jefferson enough to support him

-this convention ratifies ticket of Burr/Rodney

-after election Burr continues to establish party

-with Illinois Crisis, Democrats consolidated around anti-Illinois platform

-American Personalities > Aaron Burr gets nominated, becomes president

-standoff against Illinois lasts for years

-both sides not willing to pull the trigger

-the US engages in a period of military buildup

-with US's Wars > Luisiana War (1823-8), leads the US into war

-American Presidents > 1821-1823 Aaron Burr (Democratic) † dies in mysterious White House fire, bringing in his vice president to power

-formed by republicans opposed to Henry Clay and his American System

-tammany hall gets shaped, successfully beats national republicans party at getting catholic votes

-martin van buren is big mover in its formation, backs zebulon pike as useful war hero to get party in power

-he proves less than effective, populists serve in opposition for long time afterwards

-van buren keeps party united despite much attempts at backstabbing and the like

-finally in 1852 gets stockton elected president, but to grief of much party he's "young america", takes some ideas from unionist party

-shapes anti-elite ethos of era deeply in form of populist streak

-but then stockton stumbles, unionist gets elected

-buenaventuro war of independence causes major fissures, but party rallies behind chief justice woodward

-fissures get worse and worse, by 1866 much of populists have bolted and joined oppositionist coalitions

-woodward gets tossed by own party in favour of southerner

-after free democrats win, much of populists see red, storming of capitol etc.

-some populists remain within constitutionalist government, some rally behind it, other try to restore "union as it was"

-peace populists surge, but 1872 sees total and utter defeat in every state due to free democrat alliance with war populists

-party lingers on after war behind white supremacy, tries and fails to form coalition with defecting liberal free democrats

-but eventually collapses and just withers away with success of reconstruction