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The United States of America was torn by a civil war in the first half of the previous decade. The result was that the "experiment in democracy" had failed. The President, Abraham Lincoln, had been elected to the Presidency for a second term in 1864. In late 1865 he Us surrendered to the CSA. The out come of the war was: West Virginia, Kentuky, the Indian Territory, and the New Mexico Territory went to the Confederacy and Missouri, Deleware, and Maryland stayed in the Union. The Capital of the US was moved from Washington D.C. to Pittsburgh, PA. In 1866, just after the formal surrender of Federal troops, Congress had met and decided to rewrite the Constitution. The new constitution, the Documents of Union, outlawed slavery in the USA. It also gave the President more power. The Congress had struggled to keep california and Oregon in the US. California had tried to start a second war and become independant. The United States seemed to be on the verge of collapse. In 1868, a radical new idea entered the Senate. It involved reforming the democratic United States and forming the American Federal Empire, or AFE. While the vote to pursue this action was defeated by one vote it was still a popular idea. Many politions thought that the power of an imperial govenment would be anble to keep the remaining states in the Union. The Union was about to change greatly.

OOC: this is the IC thread for anyone who posted on the sign up tread

Do you want IC people to be U.S. Uninon and/or Confederates, or can we just RP our own Nations, and/or Governments?

Do you want IC people to be U.S. Uninon and/or Confederates, or can we just RP our own Nations, and/or Governments?

There is a sign up tread if you want to know what this is about, it is called 1865-2000 alternate history rp.

Heres the link: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=463727&page=4

then I'm not intrested. I don't like having to be forced to pick a nation, in reality.

The remaining Confederate soldiers who returned home returned home as heros. The long War for Seccesion had finally come to an end. The celebrations lasted for days. When Jeferson Davis left the presidency after his 6 year term in 1867, Robert E. Lee with Judah Benjimen as his running mate won the election by a huge margin.

There was considerable worry when the AFE was formed. This means an even more radical North. But this made the CSA feel that they had more democratic values than the North did.

In 1970, President Lee is ailing and West Viriginia has been readmitted into Virginia. Who knows what is in store for this new nation...

I know that there is a sign up thread for this RP, but I am posting this here simply because I don't think that anybody is reading the signup thread anymore.

I call Brazil. For the time, Brazil was the lead country in South America, with a well developed railroad system and a thriving economy. At this point in history, Emperor Pedro II had just finished a bloody yet victorious war against Paraguay, which was largely done with the help of Brazil's close allies, Argentina and Uruguay. For the time, Brazil is slowly recouperating it's war wounds. A sleeping giant in South America...

I know that there is a sign up thread for this RP, but I am posting this here simply because I don't think that anybody is reading the signup thread anymore.

I call Brazil. For the time, Brazil was the lead country in South America, with a well developed railroad system and a thriving economy. At this point in history, Emperor Pedro II had just finished a bloody yet victorious war against Paraguay, which was largely done with the help of Brazil's close allies, Argentina and Uruguay. For the time, Brazil is slowly recouperating it's war wounds. A sleeping giant in South America...

Um, the sign up thread is on the same page in II.

Prime Minister John Russell of England was the Prime Minster during the Civil War. He officially saw the CSA as a country. Russell gave full support of the CSA by sending military advisors, money, and weapons. He signed a alliance with the CSA. After the war was won Edward Smith-Stanley won the spot of Prime Minister. England made trade with the CSA. The Anglo-Bhutanese War in which the Bhutanese resistance forces was crushed.

OOC: I will write my thing for Mexico later today once I have read up on what the historical background of the country during the 1800s was.

OOC: TO ALL SILLY N00BS WITHOUT ANY CLUE HOW TO POST IN A SEMI-CLOSED RP'S IC THREAD:

If you have not signed in, =are not part of this RP, you can't possibly have anything to say in IC. As this thread is a "IC Thread", as the title pretty clearly states, that means, to make it as simple as possible: DO NOT POST HERE. Thank you.

OOC: TO ALL SILLY N00BS WITHOUT ANY CLUE HOW TO POST IN A SEMI-CLOSED RP'S IC THREAD:

If you have not signed in, =are not part of this RP, you can't possibly have anything to say in IC. As this thread is a "IC Thread", as the title pretty clearly states, that means, to make it as simple as possible: DO NOT POST HERE. Thank you.

Fallingsworth did sign up.

OOC: To guy playing UK- Ireland is your property at this time, Ireland is not an independent country until 1921 in RL and wouldn't exist here.

IC:

After the end of the U.S. Civil War in the favour of the Confederacy, Napoleon III was confident that his friend Maximilian's empire in Mexico would now last without foriegn intervention. The Mexican rebels were crushed by joint French-Imperial Mexican operations, and the French withdrew by 1868. After this withdrawal, Napoleon reorganised the government with the bicameral National Assembly- with the lower House of Delegates and the upper house, the Senate. Both held power over day to day matters, but legislation could be introduced by the Emperor, along with final veto power over bills. He used this new arrangement to finance the modernisation of the French army, chiefly, replacing fifty year old artillery designs with newer, more efficient breech loading models, as well as modernising the French fleet.

Napoleon also sought to pursue a rapproachment with Prussia to the east, trying to secure French hegemony over Western Europe and further uniting the French state under the Bonaparte monarchy. He also chose to remain neutral in American affairs, not seeking to take sides in the rivalryt between the AFE and the CSA.

40 years independent. That was what Belgium was coming up on. It had been a mostly peaceful 40 years for the Belgians as after the Dutch had left the country the Belgians had established their own constitutional monarchy. In 1835 they had built the first continental European railway and progress had continued down that path. They had neutrality and the support of most of the major powers on the continent. The one problem with Belgium was that it was a small country and without an army it could not do much but rely on foreign powers to protect it. King Leopold II knew that Belgium needed an army and Africa looked wide open for the taking...

OOC: When do you want me to get the Congo? does it matter if its before 1880?

The Mexican state, now safe due to the crushing of opposition by Imperial Mexican/French forces, began to rebuild following the crushings of war. Now neighbours of the Confederate States, the Mexico recognises the new government of the CSA and the AFE, and hopes to maintain friendly relations, including those with their allies in France.

Seeking to consolidate his position, the Emperor orders a complete modernisation of Imperial Mexican forces, both overt and anti-subversive measures in order to continue the oppression of adversaries to the Imperial Government.

OOC: you can do what ever you want with your contry as long as it is not God-modding

President Lee sends a telegram to the Brittish government, in which he wants to discus the possible purchase of the Falkland Islands from Brittain.

At the shores of Cuba the British Ship HMS Captain was blown to pieces. HMS Captain was on it's way to British Honduras when docked at Cuba. During the explosion five hundred people died aboard. The people of Great Britain point to Spain as the problem. Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley is sending a division from British Honduras to Cuba. The division is be outfitted with the new Martini-Henry. Prime Minster Stanley has also asked for army support from the CSA to President Lee.

remember what you have posted because we are going to have a new thread because of those idiots who couldn't figure out what an IC thread means. Read my ooc thread post