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* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: There are UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories conspiracy theories about how Benito Juarez was executed on direct orders from Richmont, basing on the fact Fire-Eaters wanted to expand into Mexico and implement slavery there.
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Before the {{Retcon}}, TheUnitedStates ended up divided into oblivion after the War Between the States into Laurentia, Pacific States, Columbia, or New England, as indicated [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-confederacy.353748/page-9#post-11535215 here]] by the author.
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Before the {{Retcon}}, TheUnitedStates UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates ended up divided into oblivion after the War Between the States into Laurentia, Pacific States, Columbia, or New England, as indicated [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-confederacy.353748/page-9#post-11535215 here]] by the author.
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* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: There are ConspiracyTheories about how Benito Juarez was executed on direct orders from Richmont, basing on the fact Fire-Eaters wanted to expand into Mexico and implement slavery there.
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* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: There are ConspiracyTheories UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories about how Benito Juarez was executed on direct orders from Richmont, basing on the fact Fire-Eaters wanted to expand into Mexico and implement slavery there.
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This TL is written in the form of a [[FictionalDocument history book]] from a British historian and is [[ShownTheirWork throughly researched]]; it describes the developments in the Confederacy.
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** New England secedes after [[spoiler:President [=McClellan=] wavers at enforcing civil rights for freed slaves, before new President Charles F. Adams manages to negociate amnesty and civil rights]].
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** New England secedes after [[spoiler:President [=McClellan=] wavers at enforcing civil rights for freed slaves, before new President Charles F. Adams manages to negociate negotiate amnesty and civil rights]].
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* FalseFlagAttack: [[spoiler:Confederate bombing of an Union ship in order to make it seem like an Union aggression and gather the Southern society around a war]].
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* FalseFlagAttack: [[spoiler:Confederate bombing of an a Union ship in order to make it seem like an Union aggression and gather the Southern society around a war]].
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** The “Giddings telegram” results in colder relationf between the Mexican Empire and the Confederacy.
** The [[spoiler:War of Southern Agression, started in order to reduce the impopularity of the Planter elite by PatrioticFervor,]] results [[spoiler:in a revolution against the Planter elite]].
** The [[spoiler:War of Southern Agression, started in order to reduce the impopularity of the Planter elite by PatrioticFervor,]] results [[spoiler:in a revolution against the Planter elite]].
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** The “Giddings telegram” results in colder relationf relations between the Mexican Empire and the Confederacy.
** The [[spoiler:War of Southern Agression, started in order to reduce theimpopularity unpopularity of the Planter elite by PatrioticFervor,]] results [[spoiler:in a revolution against the Planter elite]].
** The [[spoiler:War of Southern Agression, started in order to reduce the
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* MegaCorp: Georgia Mississippi Railway Company is the greatese railway company in the Confederacy.
* MegaCorp: Georgia Mississippi Railway Company is the greatese railway company in the Confederacy.
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** After [[spoiler:the War of Southern Aggression]], Confederate authprioties authorities decided to [[spoiler:reenslave all former Black slaves who have been freed by the Union administration on occupied territories of Virginia]].
* MegaCorp: Georgia Mississippi Railway Company is thegreatese greatest railway company in the Confederacy.
* MegaCorp: Georgia Mississippi Railway Company is the
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* TheRemnant: While the Treaty of Ottawa was signed on September 1st, 1865, Union troops kept fighting in New Orleand until September 16th.
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* ThereIsNoHigherCourt: Until the ''Judiciary Act of 1871'', Confederacy hadn't any Condeferate Supreme Court: rulings could only be appealed to the circuit level, and that's it.
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** After industrial slaves in Lynchburg, Virginia strike against the removal of an abolitionnist Free Republican Mayor, Night Riders and ''policemen'' lynched fifty five slaves and seventeen Free Republicans, among them the ousted Mayor.
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** After industrial slaves in Lynchburg, Virginia strike against the removal of an abolitionnist abolitionist Free Republican Mayor, Night Riders and ''policemen'' lynched fifty five fifty-five slaves and seventeen Free Republicans, among them the ousted Mayor.
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** Brigham Young proclamed the independence of Deseret.
** During the 1866-1876 crisis, Oregon, California, Wahsington and Nevada secede as the Pacific States of America.
** Likewise, the Republic of Laurentia and the unitary Republic of Columbia emerge as States out of the former United States, and New England even become a ''British dominion''.
** During the 1866-1876 crisis, Oregon, California, Wahsington and Nevada secede as the Pacific States of America.
** Likewise, the Republic of Laurentia and the unitary Republic of Columbia emerge as States out of the former United States, and New England even become a ''British dominion''.
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** Brigham Young proclamed proclaimed the independence of Deseret.
** During the 1866-1876 crisis, Oregon, California,Wahsington Washington and Nevada secede as the Pacific States of America.
** Likewise, the Republic of Laurentia and the unitary Republic of Columbia emerge as States out of the former United States, and New England evenbecome becomes a ''British dominion''.
** During the 1866-1876 crisis, Oregon, California,
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* WhatAnIdiot:
** Maximilian of Mexico calls for help to the Confederacy, but is rebuffed. End result of the “Giddings telegram”: no more preferential treatment for Confederate business, making their recession turn into a Depression.
** Confederate Democratic leadership decided to [[spoiler:cannon an Union ship [[FalseFlag and make the whole thing looks like if it was the Confederacy who defended itself]]]]. End result: riots and anarchy everywhere, and [[spoiler:the start of the Revolution]].
** Maximilian of Mexico calls for help to the Confederacy, but is rebuffed. End result of the “Giddings telegram”: no more preferential treatment for Confederate business, making their recession turn into a Depression.
** Confederate Democratic leadership decided to [[spoiler:cannon an Union ship [[FalseFlag and make the whole thing looks like if it was the Confederacy who defended itself]]]]. End result: riots and anarchy everywhere, and [[spoiler:the start of the Revolution]].
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** Likewise, the Republic of Laurentia and the unitary Republic of Comumbia Columbia emerge as States out of the former United States, and New England even become a ''British dominion''.
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'''''The Confederacy''''' is a Timeline written by the AlternateHistoryDotCom Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom member [=ADS94=] and available [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-confederacy.353748/ here]].
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'''''The Confederacy''''' is a Timeline written by the AlternateHistoryDotCom member [=ADS94=] and available [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-confederacy.353748/ here]].
The POD is a Confederate victory in Antietam, resulting in independent Confederate States of America.
Once there the North see the dissolution of the Republican party, blamed for the disaster, while the South deals with the economic and social aftermaths of the war.
This TL is written in the form of a [[FictionalDocument history book]] from a British historian and is [[ShownTheirWork throughly researched]]; it describes the developpements in the Confederacy.
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! This works contains the following tropes:
* TheAlcoholic: Confederate President Toombs became more and more alcoholic as his attempts to increase executive powers were stalled by Radicals and Fire-Eaters.
* AllohistoricalAllusion:
** The Democratic Party opposes Reconstruction[[note]]Program to rebuild farms, railroads and buildings in Tenneessee funded by the Confederate Treasury[[/note]]
* AssInAmbassador: After Maximilian of Mexico call for help to Richmond, Secretary of State Dewitt Giddings replied:
-->''A most unfortunate situation you’re in''
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A thought movement in the South, which included even President Davis, expresses how independence brought loneliness to the South.
* TheCityVsTheCountry:
** Confederate cities, which, thanks to immigration, were more liberal, were disenfranchised by the wealth-based voting system and the gerrymandering.
* CivilWar:
** UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar
** The troubles under [=McClellan=] presidency with the secession of New England, California and the Border States over civil rights for Blacks.
** [[spoiler:The Confederate Revolution]].
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:the War of Southern Aggression]].
* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: There are ConspiracyTheories about how Benito Juarez was executed on direct orders from Richmont, basing on the fact Fire-Eaters wanted to expand into Mexico and implement slavery there.
* DeepSouth: They are independent now.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica:
** The Confederate States stays independent.
** New England secedes after [[spoiler:President [=McClellan=] wavers at enforcing civil rights for freed slaves, before new President Charles F. Adams manages to negociate amnesty and civil rights]].
** This is even worse during the {{Retcon}}.
** In the South, some Confederate governors threatened secession after some policies they opposed were considered or adopted.
* TheExile:
** After one of his sons was lynched by the Night Riders, General James Longstreet, founder fo the Free Republican party, ended up dying in exile in the Connecticut.
** The Anti-Slavery Society leadership had to leave the Confederacy.
* FalseFlagAttack: [[spoiler:Confederate bombing of an Union ship in order to make it seem like an Union aggression and gather the Southern society around a war]].
* FictionalDocument: Most of the documents quoted in this TL were created by the author. This TL itself is a FictionalDocument.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** The “Giddings telegram” results in colder relationf between the Mexican Empire and the Confederacy.
** The [[spoiler:War of Southern Agression, started in order to reduce the impopularity of the Planter elite by PatrioticFervor,]] results [[spoiler:in a revolution against the Planter elite]].
* InjunCountry: The Indian Territory is a swath of Confederate territory where the Indians are left to their own devices [[spoiler:at last until parts are traded to Whites to make more slave plantations]].
* TheKlan: Nathan Bedford Forrest's "Night Riders" terrorize pro-Union sympathisers, abolitionists, slaves and uppity Blacks.
* LastStand: Union troops attempt one in the New Orleans before hunger take its course.
* MadeASlave:
** What happen to any free Negro who stays in any Confederate state having "Rivers laws."
** After [[spoiler:the War of Southern Aggression]], Confederate authprioties decided to [[spoiler:reenslave all former Black slaves who have been freed by the Union administration on occupied territories of Virginia]].
* MegaCorp: Georgia Mississippi Railway Company is the greatese railway company in the Confederacy.
* PeaceConference: the treaty of Ottawa, signed on September 1st, 1865, end the "War Between the States" and has the following clauses:
** West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and northern New Mexico remain in the US, but the Indian Territory and Southern Arizona remain Confederate.
** The Confederate States was also forced to pay, in 1861 Dollars, the price of all United States property seized in the new nation.
** No [[LaResistance guerilla troops]] were to be sent to the North.
* TheRemnant: While the Treaty of Ottawa was signed on September 1st, 1865, Union troops kept fighting in New Orleand until September 16th.
* RidiculousExchangeRates:
** The Confederate dollar, as OTL, suffers from this: inflation rate was to ''three hundred per cent'' on 1866, and this was ''after'' a currency reform.
** During the [[spoiler:Revolution]], Confederate dollar has its value halved, meaning a 100% inflation.
* ShownTheirWork: The author said it took him half a decade to work on this timeline!
* SlaveLiberation: After ''Pryor v. Virginia'' stripped Virginia free Negroes from their citizenship, Blacks, both free and enslaved, with the help of sympathetic Whites, start to organise themselves for a rebellion in groups such as the Free Knights of New Africa.
* ThereIsNoHigherCourt: Until the ''Judiciary Act of 1871'', Confederacy hadn't any Condeferate Supreme Court: rulings could only be appealed to the circuit level, and that's it.
* VigilanteExecution:
** After industrial slaves in Lynchburg, Virginia strike against the removal of an abolitionnist Free Republican Mayor, Night Riders and ''policemen'' lynched fifty five slaves and seventeen Free Republicans, among them the ousted Mayor.
** The 1880's depression made the number of lynchings raise because of job competition from slaves.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** Maximilian of Mexico calls for help to the Confederacy, but is rebuffed. End result of the “Giddings telegram”: no more preferential treatment for Confederate business, making their recession turn into a Depression.
** Confederate Democratic leadership decided to [[spoiler:cannon an Union ship [[FalseFlag and make the whole thing looks like if it was the Confederacy who defended itself]]]]. End result: riots and anarchy everywhere, and [[spoiler:the start of the Revolution]].
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The "River Laws" defines slaves to be nothing more than mere property and consequently, per WordOfGod, some of the more extreme Mississippi plantation simply murder any misbehaving slaves.
! In addition of the previous tropes, the TL before the {{Retcon}} had the following:
Before the {{Retcon}}, TheUnitedStates ended up divided into oblivion after the War Between the States into Laurentia, Pacific States, Columbia, or New England, as indicated [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-confederacy.353748/page-9#post-11535215 here]] by the author.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica:
** Brigham Young proclamed the independence of Deseret.
** During the 1866-1876 crisis, Oregon, California, Wahsington and Nevada secede as the Pacific States of America.
** Likewise, the Republic of Laurentia and the unitary Republic of Comumbia emerge as States out of the former United States, and New England even become a ''British dominion''.
* ThereIsNoHigherCourt: Per WordOfGod, TheUnitedStates post-new constitution has no Supreme Court: the Congress has the task to harmonise the precedents between districts.
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The POD is a Confederate victory in Antietam, resulting in independent Confederate States of America.
Once there the North see the dissolution of the Republican party, blamed for the disaster, while the South deals with the economic and social aftermaths of the war.
This TL is written in the form of a [[FictionalDocument history book]] from a British historian and is [[ShownTheirWork throughly researched]]; it describes the developpements in the Confederacy.
----
! This works contains the following tropes:
* TheAlcoholic: Confederate President Toombs became more and more alcoholic as his attempts to increase executive powers were stalled by Radicals and Fire-Eaters.
* AllohistoricalAllusion:
** The Democratic Party opposes Reconstruction[[note]]Program to rebuild farms, railroads and buildings in Tenneessee funded by the Confederate Treasury[[/note]]
* AssInAmbassador: After Maximilian of Mexico call for help to Richmond, Secretary of State Dewitt Giddings replied:
-->''A most unfortunate situation you’re in''
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A thought movement in the South, which included even President Davis, expresses how independence brought loneliness to the South.
* TheCityVsTheCountry:
** Confederate cities, which, thanks to immigration, were more liberal, were disenfranchised by the wealth-based voting system and the gerrymandering.
* CivilWar:
** UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar
** The troubles under [=McClellan=] presidency with the secession of New England, California and the Border States over civil rights for Blacks.
** [[spoiler:The Confederate Revolution]].
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:the War of Southern Aggression]].
* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: There are ConspiracyTheories about how Benito Juarez was executed on direct orders from Richmont, basing on the fact Fire-Eaters wanted to expand into Mexico and implement slavery there.
* DeepSouth: They are independent now.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica:
** The Confederate States stays independent.
** New England secedes after [[spoiler:President [=McClellan=] wavers at enforcing civil rights for freed slaves, before new President Charles F. Adams manages to negociate amnesty and civil rights]].
** This is even worse during the {{Retcon}}.
** In the South, some Confederate governors threatened secession after some policies they opposed were considered or adopted.
* TheExile:
** After one of his sons was lynched by the Night Riders, General James Longstreet, founder fo the Free Republican party, ended up dying in exile in the Connecticut.
** The Anti-Slavery Society leadership had to leave the Confederacy.
* FalseFlagAttack: [[spoiler:Confederate bombing of an Union ship in order to make it seem like an Union aggression and gather the Southern society around a war]].
* FictionalDocument: Most of the documents quoted in this TL were created by the author. This TL itself is a FictionalDocument.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** The “Giddings telegram” results in colder relationf between the Mexican Empire and the Confederacy.
** The [[spoiler:War of Southern Agression, started in order to reduce the impopularity of the Planter elite by PatrioticFervor,]] results [[spoiler:in a revolution against the Planter elite]].
* InjunCountry: The Indian Territory is a swath of Confederate territory where the Indians are left to their own devices [[spoiler:at last until parts are traded to Whites to make more slave plantations]].
* TheKlan: Nathan Bedford Forrest's "Night Riders" terrorize pro-Union sympathisers, abolitionists, slaves and uppity Blacks.
* LastStand: Union troops attempt one in the New Orleans before hunger take its course.
* MadeASlave:
** What happen to any free Negro who stays in any Confederate state having "Rivers laws."
** After [[spoiler:the War of Southern Aggression]], Confederate authprioties decided to [[spoiler:reenslave all former Black slaves who have been freed by the Union administration on occupied territories of Virginia]].
* MegaCorp: Georgia Mississippi Railway Company is the greatese railway company in the Confederacy.
* PeaceConference: the treaty of Ottawa, signed on September 1st, 1865, end the "War Between the States" and has the following clauses:
** West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and northern New Mexico remain in the US, but the Indian Territory and Southern Arizona remain Confederate.
** The Confederate States was also forced to pay, in 1861 Dollars, the price of all United States property seized in the new nation.
** No [[LaResistance guerilla troops]] were to be sent to the North.
* TheRemnant: While the Treaty of Ottawa was signed on September 1st, 1865, Union troops kept fighting in New Orleand until September 16th.
* RidiculousExchangeRates:
** The Confederate dollar, as OTL, suffers from this: inflation rate was to ''three hundred per cent'' on 1866, and this was ''after'' a currency reform.
** During the [[spoiler:Revolution]], Confederate dollar has its value halved, meaning a 100% inflation.
* ShownTheirWork: The author said it took him half a decade to work on this timeline!
* SlaveLiberation: After ''Pryor v. Virginia'' stripped Virginia free Negroes from their citizenship, Blacks, both free and enslaved, with the help of sympathetic Whites, start to organise themselves for a rebellion in groups such as the Free Knights of New Africa.
* ThereIsNoHigherCourt: Until the ''Judiciary Act of 1871'', Confederacy hadn't any Condeferate Supreme Court: rulings could only be appealed to the circuit level, and that's it.
* VigilanteExecution:
** After industrial slaves in Lynchburg, Virginia strike against the removal of an abolitionnist Free Republican Mayor, Night Riders and ''policemen'' lynched fifty five slaves and seventeen Free Republicans, among them the ousted Mayor.
** The 1880's depression made the number of lynchings raise because of job competition from slaves.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** Maximilian of Mexico calls for help to the Confederacy, but is rebuffed. End result of the “Giddings telegram”: no more preferential treatment for Confederate business, making their recession turn into a Depression.
** Confederate Democratic leadership decided to [[spoiler:cannon an Union ship [[FalseFlag and make the whole thing looks like if it was the Confederacy who defended itself]]]]. End result: riots and anarchy everywhere, and [[spoiler:the start of the Revolution]].
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The "River Laws" defines slaves to be nothing more than mere property and consequently, per WordOfGod, some of the more extreme Mississippi plantation simply murder any misbehaving slaves.
! In addition of the previous tropes, the TL before the {{Retcon}} had the following:
Before the {{Retcon}}, TheUnitedStates ended up divided into oblivion after the War Between the States into Laurentia, Pacific States, Columbia, or New England, as indicated [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-confederacy.353748/page-9#post-11535215 here]] by the author.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica:
** Brigham Young proclamed the independence of Deseret.
** During the 1866-1876 crisis, Oregon, California, Wahsington and Nevada secede as the Pacific States of America.
** Likewise, the Republic of Laurentia and the unitary Republic of Comumbia emerge as States out of the former United States, and New England even become a ''British dominion''.
* ThereIsNoHigherCourt: Per WordOfGod, TheUnitedStates post-new constitution has no Supreme Court: the Congress has the task to harmonise the precedents between districts.
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