alternate us history timeline

painstakingly created timeline to possibly use in worldbuilding for something.

1792: instead of a major scandal, the Reynolds affair ends early in a duel. James Reynolds is killed.

1796: Pickney is elected president, Adams remains vice president

1799: full scale war breaks out with France

1800: Alexander Hamilton wins the presidency. Jefferson becomes vice president

1802: the franco-american war ends with a us victory.

1803: Alexander Hamilton is assassinated by Burr. Jefferson assumes the presidency

1804: the Louisiana purchase (more expensive).

1805: Lewis and Clark set out (they will not return).

1809: legend begins of an escaped enslaved man liberating plantations in the south

1812: the US defeated in a skirmish with so called "indian negroes" in the florida area.

1813: Tecumseh doesn’t die, his confederacy grows

1814: enslaved people are emboldened after burning the white house in the war of 1812 with the british

1814: the US is unable to wrest control in the creek war. the treaty of fort Jackson is not signed.

1816: the negro fort in florida is not destroyed.

1816: the US fails again in a skirmish with the so called "black seminoles" of florida.

1818: the US leads an American army into Florida to claim it, being beaten back a third time.

1821: the US buys Florida on paper, but it is still highly occupied by “seminoles”. the US is not able to physically possess the land entirely.

1829: Nat Turner's rebellion begins early, and largely succeeds. the freedfolk move south.

1830: as Lewis and Clark failed, the Oregon trail does not begin in full. tentative western settlers are often attacked by emboldened natives

1830: the Indian removal act is not complied with

1831: embarrassed by consistent defeats, Jackson begins the second Seminole wars hastily.

1833: the black hawk war ends inconclusively, with the natives largely evading capture and death

1834: the second Seminole wars end in defeat for the US. the southern territories are being recognized as free land for natives and blacks.

1836: the creek people hold their position in the second creek war

1839: the gullah geechee uprisings occur. charleston, sc is the first major us city to fall. more and more enslaved people are freed every day.

1840: Arkansas becomes a state. savannah, ga is the next city to fall. the us gives a fractured response, hampered by guerilla tactics in the low country.

1841: christmas day, columbia falls to the rebellion.

1842: Texas is annexed officially, however the US has difficulty expanding south to physically annex. rebels raze charlotte, nc.

1843: diplomacy begins between freedfolk, natives, tejanos not wanting annexation, and haiti.

1844: the rebellion swiftly sweeps through alabama, mississippi, and louisiana. new orleans holds strong. many freedfolk begin moving west, fleeing constant war with the US.

1845: Florida and Texas do not reach statehood. new orleans falls, with the help of enslaved people from inside the city.

1846: instead of suing for freedom, dread scott and his family flee south to freed land.

1846: concurrently with the Mexican American war, the southern territories declare full autonomy. the people's republic of new afrika forms

1846: the new afrikans and the natives support the tejanos who wanted independence from Mexico but saw discrimination and oppression from the anglos in power. this leads to the Mexican American war being three pronged.

1848: Mexico pulls out of the war

1850: the US calls for a ceasefire. the people's republic of new afrika and tejas remains autonomous (though still owned by the US on paper)

1851: constitutional convention held at port deliverance (port deliverance accords). the American Patriot Party forms in the us. the U.S. Congress passes the Border Security Act, making it a federal crime for any citizen to aid or harbor those attempting to flee south

1852: the peoples republic passes the Cotonou Policy. The Associated Workers Syndicate of new orleans and the All-Collectives Syndicate of port deliverance bargain on behalf of all republic collectives, prioritizing and subsidizing trade with the caribbean and africa. a Neutral Port Strategy is used to prevent first world overreach.

1853: the US enters an economic depression. the "Regulators" or "Home Guard” launch terror campaigns against the westward-moving New Afrikans" and their Native and Tejano allies.

1854: the Homestead and Pacific Railroad Act of 1854 unilaterally nullifies U.S. treaties with dozens of Native nations across the Great Plains. It offers 160 acres of "free" land—stolen directly from the tribes—to any U.S. citizen willing to settle it, while also authorizing federal surveys for a central railroad route to the california area. the plains tribes are enraged and do their best to defend.

1854: the PRNA both ratifies the Foundational Education and Land Distribution Act and begins constructing the Liberation Line for better connection within the collective.

1856: the ku klux klan forms

1859: John Brown's raid is successful

1860: the corwin amendment is ratified

1861: the reclamation expedition begins. the US moves in force against the people's republic of new afrika, the natives who refused to leave west, and independent tejas. this is our civil war.

1862: the union spends a year attempting to push into new afrika, finding hard resistance through the typical guerilla warfare. through sheer force of will, firepower, and numbers, with the southern resistance being the sole focus, the union gains some ground.

1863: west virginia does not become a state. the southern advance is forced to pull back as tennessee and north carolina burn. the remaining enslaved people set fire to their plantations, raze cities, and flee south. supply lines for the army are severed.

1864: the union army’s focus is partly divided as the homestead act of ‘54 leads to the plains war escalating. indigenous peoples pick this moment to go on the offensive, attacking western towns, supply lines, and pioneers.

1864: emboldened, new afrikan troops are able to push all the way into virginia. the capital is burned again before the new afrikan forces strategically retreat back south. it was a message.

1865: no 13th amendment.

1865: the US calls for another ceasefire. no formal treaty as the land is not recognized as independent.

1868: Jefferson Davis becomes the 17th president. Alexander Stephens vice president.