How completely different would the world be at present if the Confederate States of America (CSA) had won? Here is my model of how history may need transpired.

The primary seven Southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America in February of 1861. The primary hostilities at Fort Sumter, SC occurred in April 1861.

Battle of Bull Run/First Manassas, July, 1861

(Within the precise battle, the South wins. CSA Generals Beauregard and Johnston command barely 29,000 troops against 50,000 Federal troops below the command of Gen Winfield Scott. The Confederacy wins the battle, and the Federal troops make a full panicked retreat back to Washington. However President Jefferson Davis hesitates and loses the opportunity to capture Washington, DC, which would have ended the struggle in the first major battle. Right here is how it could have gone if Davis had made a optimistic decision to complete the battle, and here is the historical past that could have flowed from that victory.)

Learning of the Federal defeat and retreat, President Jefferson Davis and Common Beauregard order the CSA troops to complete the rout by pursuing the Northern troops back to Washington, solely about 30 miles. The pursuit is made far simpler for CSA troops as the Federals have abandoned their stores of provisions all along the way in which back to Washington. A small cavalry drive underneath the command of Common Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson captures the White Home and President Lincoln. The cavalry and CSA troops camp on the White Home lawn.

Within every week, President Davis and Normal Robert E. Lee start negotiations with Lincoln, Cabinet members and Congress members to stop hostilities permanently. The events negotiate various treaties regarding commerce between the nations. They determine that subsequent territories desirous of statehood get to choose which nation to join, and different border issues.

Abraham Lincoln is impeached by Congress and removed from office in late 1861. He is tried, found responsible of warfare crimes and receives a prison sentence of fifty years, and dies in prison. As Common Ulysses S. Grant has achieved no notoriety in the war, he shouldn’t be elected President and retires in obscurity.

The lives of over 620,000 men on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line are spared. The CSA just isn’t pillaged and sacked by the Union forces. The state of West Virginia is not formed by Lincoln. CSA cities and plantations are usually not burned. There are not any draft riots in New York City. Northern newspaper editors aren’t jailed for disagreeing with Lincoln. Robert E. Lee’s plantation named “Arlington” shouldn’t be stolen by the US Authorities and made into a Union cemetery.

The importation of slaves was outlawed in the CSA Constitution of 1861, and slavery slowly collapses beneath its personal weight at about the identical time as mechanization involves agriculture within the 1870s. The freed slaves develop into sharecroppers, or turn out to be a part of the workforce mandatory within the manufacturing boom in the CSA.

Jefferson Davis serves his Constitutionally-mandated single six-yr term, after which is elected Senator from Texas, the place he serves until simply before his dying. Robert E. Lee is the next President elected in 1866. Dozens of recent Southern cities and streets are named after Davis, identical to George Washington’s legacy after the Revolutionary Conflict.

Stonewall Jackson doesn’t die in battle in 1863, but goes again to the Virginia Military Institute, the place he resumes instructing. He eventually turns into the Chancellor of the college, and remains on this place till his dying.

The Citadel, the Charleston army academy, becomes the Naval Academy for the CSA.

Richmond, Virginia, continues to be the capitol of the CSA. Atlanta turns into the enterprise and financial center of the CSA. The Atlanta Stock Alternate turns into certainly one of the most important and wealthiest on the planet. Most of the key banks of the South are based in Atlanta.

The territories west of the Mississippi eventually search statehood, and must resolve with which nation they’ll align themselves. Only North and South Dakota Territories determine to develop into US states. All other territories change into Confederate states, as a result of the Montgomery Structure of 1861 was an enormous enchancment over the US Structure.

The USA turns into a nation bordered on the north by Canada, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south and west by the CSA. California, Maryland and Oregon vote to secede from the Union and be a part of the CSA in 1862. The USA statehood growth ceases at 19 states. The CSA finally grows to 27 states, bordered on the north by the USA and Western Canada, on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the east by the Atlantic, and on the south by Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico. Puerto Rico becomes the last state to affix the CSA in 1960.

Hawaii shouldn’t be stolen by the USA and remains a sovereign nation. Alaska belongs to Canada.

The CSA’s import tariffs are a median of 13%. Consequently, shipping and commerce at Southern ports explodes. The ports of Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, Miami and New Orleans grow to be the busiest ports on the Jap Seaboard. Western ports at San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle turn out to be CSA ports. The port of Norfolk/Portsmouth turns into the shipbuilding capital of the Americas. The Navy of the CSA is harbored at Norfolk and Charleston. The CSA controls all commerce in Chesapeake Bay and controls all commerce arising and down the Mississippi River.

USA’s principal ports are New York, Newark, Philadelphia and Boston. The canals and locks are constructed by the US government to facilitate access to the great Lakes.

Chicago still becomes a serious Midwestern enterprise middle, and a heart for commodities. Kansas Metropolis, Missouri becomes the major Midwestern business middle and commodities alternate for the South.

Southern manufacturing expands rapidly as investments pour into the CSA from rich Southerners, in addition to Northern and European investors. The Bessemer steel mill in Alabama turns into the largest steel mill on the earth.

CSA makes gold and silver the only money. Southern banks will not be regulated by the government and are allowed to coin their own cash. Fractional banking is just not allowed within the CSA. There isn’t a inflation in the CSA throughout its historical past.

In 1898, William Randolph Hearst owns a series of publications and newspapers. Nevertheless, his publishing empire is in California, which is a state of the CSA. Hearst finds no curiosity within the CSA for his tales about Spain’s influence in the Western Hemisphere, as Spain is a valued ally and trading nation. The US Congress and President McKinley want to determine an American Empire. Nonetheless, with solely 20 states, they are no so fast to project military would possibly. Their southernmost port is Philadelphia, not Florida. The USS Maine is rarely dispatched to Havana harbor and doesn’t sink there. Teddy Roosevelt never leads the Rough Riders in a cavalry charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba. He doesn’t win the Congressional Medal of Honor. The United States has no naval presence in the Pacific, and does not attack the Spanish at Manila.

Theodore Roosevelt nonetheless becomes Vice President, and eventually turns into President in 1901 when McKinley is assassinated.

Theodore Roosevelt leads the undertaking to construct the Panama Canal. Many CSA companies participate, but the CSA authorities does not spend money unconstitutionally on the undertaking.

Hoover Dam is just not built by the US authorities, however by a consortium of the seven states served by the Colorado River. Its title remains the Boulder Dam.

The CSA continues to achieve its income from tariffs, and there is rarely an earnings tax of any variety.

There is no such thing as a CSA standing army, however each state has its militia. The CSA does have a Navy, authorized in its Structure.

Oil is found in Texas, Oklahoma and the Gulf of Mexico. Over time, the CSA becomes an exporter of petroleum products to the North, as Northern oil fields do not produce what they want. The CSA is completely self-enough in oil and fuel. Because there isn’t a inflation, crude oil costs never exceed $20 per barrel.

Coal can be produced and exported to the North from the vast fields of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia (remember that West Virginia shouldn’t be formed by Lincoln).

The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 starts WWI. As a result of the overlapping treaty obligations between numerous European nations, the continent is gripped by battle. Regardless that US President Wilson wishes entry into the conflict, the USA does not have either the navy may or the political will to enter. The USA offers assist of munitions and materiel to the Allies in much smaller quantities however does not commit ground troops to the Continent. Germany wins, and the maps of Europe are redrawn. There isn’t any Treaty of Versailles. Germany tasks its army would possibly worldwide with its navy, a superior drive to the defeated British navy. Nonetheless, Germany could be very pleasant with the CSA, who stayed neutral within the warfare. It is more hostile towards the US.

After 1918, Germany turns into a serious world power. No communism develops in Russia, as a robust Germany would not tolerate it, and was positioned geographically to do one thing about it. Hitler remains an obscure paper-hanger and non-entity.

The Ottoman Turkish Empire will not be defeated in WWI. Consequently, the territories managed by Turkey are not divided, and the British don’t get the chance to determine Palestine, Syria and Trans-Jordan in 1918. This additionally signifies that the state of Israel was not established in 1948. Prior to World Battle I, one of the best major European nations through which to be Jewish have been Germany and Austria. The vast Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe would have held their conventional locations in multi-nation-empires, as an alternative of turning into aliens in new nation-states. The Jewish diaspora from Russia and Europe to North America would not have occurred in such giant numbers. Consequently, many of the Jewish movie administrators, producers, writers, composers and actors would have stayed in Europe.

Hollywood does not turn into the world’s entertainment heart, but Berlin does. However Hollywood does become an essential center of leisure in Los Angeles, California CSA.

The great Depression of 1929 does still occur in the USA due to the formation of the Federal Reserve and fractional banking. However, the CSA is enriched by it, for the reason that CSA’s cash is backed by gold and silver, with no inflation. 1000’s of businesses and tens of millions of individuals relocate to the South and West.

Japan becomes one of many main nations of the Far East. Hiroshima and Nagasaki should not bombed with nu weapons in 1945.

Russia stays a monarchy. Communism by no means positive aspects a toehold. V.I. Lenin, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin remain obscure theorists. No Iron Curtain. No Chilly Struggle. No use for 1000’s of ICMBs…they were by no means built.

No Communist Cuba. The CSA has a really robust relationship with Cuba, and is Cuba’s main buying and selling accomplice. Cuba emulates the CSA’s structure, and becomes a beacon of freedom for Latin and South America. Nevertheless, the US also trades with Cuba since no embargo was enacted.

Mao Tse Tung and his spouse are communists and work to carry Communism to China. They are arrested and executed in 1927. No extra Communism in China.

China’s emperor embraces capitalism, and China turns into a number one world power.

Phrase Warfare II does not happen, since none of the reasons for the battle existed.

The Jewish Holocaust does not occur.

The Wright brothers fly their airplane in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, NC. Over the remaining
a part of the twentieth Century, aeronautic innovation occurs primarily in non-public aviation, because the USA and CSA weren’t consumed by and planning wars.

NASA will not be created by governments, but personal enterprise develops rocket expertise.

No United Nations is formed.

No Korean War. The Korean Peninsula is not cut up by Chinese language Communism, and the nation remains complete.

John F. Kennedy just isn’t assassinated in Dallas in 1963. However, his Executive Order 11110 on June 4, 1963 to subject silver-backed money and de-fund the Federal Reserve still will get him assassinated in a Northern city. Someone apart from Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas turns into the subsequent president.

The CSA embraces nu power, and dozens of nu power producing plants spring up all over the nation. The CSA generates 90% of its electrical wants through clean, secure nu power.

No Vietnam Conflict, and just one Vietnamese nation exists because China is just not selling Communism.

No Gulf Wars.

In your complete 140-plus year historical past of the Confederate States of America, there isn’t a warfare, save the at some point of battle on July 21, 1861 in Virginia.

Over 150 million individuals aren’t killed by governments and wars throughout the twentieth century. All because Jefferson Davis didn’t hesitate to act on a day in July of 1861.