Flintlocks Forever

This ATL is abut the idea that the Flintlock Era of Weapons never ended and what consequences this whould have...

Timeline

1776
The Continental Congress adopts Thomas Jefferson'sproposal for the Great Seal of the United States of America.

1803
Alexander John Forsyth finds himself unable to create the percussion capand gives up his bird hunting while others turn to either archery or bird shot. This seemingly small event in ATL causes a radical shift in what should have had occured...

Symbolism

 * In the United States, after the raising of the Statue of Columbia atop the US Capitol Building in 1863, Columbia_women.pngbia, becomes the most common representitve of American intrest replacing Uncle Sam.
 * Many units have unique battle flags along with the battleflag.

Education

 * Native American history and European history is taught as a precursor to American history.
 * History is given the foremost amount of significance with math as the least.
 * Evolution and Creationism are taught as both equal theories exspecially after the publishing of the book Evidence of Creation which showed many of the holes in the Theory of Evolution.
 * Tenure is outlawed in many states for all state funded places of learning below college.
 * There is no Department of Education as the US Goverment did not interfere in the state's rights to education, so many states have diffrent laws for education.
 * Vexillology is the third most studied subject in colleges across America. Behind only History and Literature.
 * 23% of the 49 states (11) have laws concerning the size of homework to a maximum of 2 pages a night one has a law completely prohibiting mandatory after-school work.
 * Sex-Education in the United States is rare as most people perfer to teach their own children about sexual relations. ALthough Sex-Ed is usually offered as electives, especially in New York, New England, and California.

State Borders

 * The District of Columbia became the 49th state in 1988.
 * Some state flags are based off of the US flag or have the sickle and hammer.
 * Flintlocks were used during the Civil War instead of percussion capped rifles or muskets many of the battles were longer and bloodier with Gettysburg lasting for 8 days and costing 61,000 men, because of this the United States had less money by the end of the war so Russia decided to sell Alaska to Great Britain whom incorperated it into Canada.
 * Hawaii was never annexed.
 * The 64'40 line remained a huge part in creating state borders even after the civil war simply for the equality of states.
 * West Virginia never seceded from Virginia.
 * The 42' line broke OTL Wyoming in two with Jackson in the south and Wyoming in the north.
 * The Anne Arundel County in Maryland became the District of de Leon with Annapolis as the capitol.
 * The north-eastern corner of Florida, including Jacksonville and Saint Augustine is the seperate State of Jackson.
 * more to come... probably

Society

 * Nationalism is more wide-spread and is more ferverent then in OTL.
 * The notion of the glory of dying for one's country and honour is also more ferverent causing a larger terrorism problem.
 * Many more people own weapons then in OTL.
 * more to come

Weapons

 * Flintlocks were the only form of weapons until the 1950s with the creation of the Electrolock which uses electricity to ignite the gunpowder.
 * Electrolocks are mainly used by military peoples with regular citizens normally using flintlocks still.
 * more to come