Upper Canada and Quebec rebel from Great Britain and achieve independence in 1837-’41. The Mormons found the theocratic state of Deseret within Mexican territory. Seminole Indians in Florida, together with runaway slaves, drive out the invading US in 1837. In 1835, Louisiana supports Texas independence from Mexico on condition that the new republic not join the US. Indian tribes east of the Mississippi are expelled to what later will become the Five Nations area (our Oklahoma, more or less). Napoleon does sell Upper Louisiana to the US, but retains the densely populated area around Nouvelle Orléans.įrench Louisiana declares itself independent in 1815, refusing to recognize the Bourbon dynasty reinstated after Napoleon’s Waterloo defeat. In 1812, following an unsuccessful US invasion of Canada, New England secedes. President Aaron Burr (in reality he was only vice-president at the time, if only by a hair’s breadth) annoys the French so much that Napoleon refuses to sell the gigantic Louisiana Territory to the US. Not in White’s timeline: “Annoyed at the way the new federal government under John Adams is shaping up, Vermont refuses to join the Union, declaring itself an independent republic instead.” Vermont was an independent state until it joined the US as its fourteenth state in 1791. This leads to a radically different constitution, and a fundamentally weaker Union. In 1787, a fire in the Philadelphia State House kills George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison and other members of the Constitutional Convention.
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