🌊 Ripple · counterfactual
What if the American Civil War had gone differently?
1861 · north-america
The Union fights four years to stop the slave states leaving, and ends slavery doing it.
If it had gone differently: The Union splits for good; there is no single continental United States to become the next century's dominant power.
What it set up
- 1870The first globalisation, The world economy stays a patchwork of regions; no belle-époque boom, and no 1914 shock when it unwinds.
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