Talk:American Civil War (World of Lesnaya)

Civil War
Questions:
 * When should it happen? Earlier or later than OTL?
 * Who wants to design a timeline of battles in the northern theater (i.e., the main body of the fighting between the USA and CSA)?

Partitions of North America
I would like to open a discussion about how I see North America being partitioned among different political entities throughout the era before, during and after the Civil War period. This seems to be a popular theme in alternate history, so I figure there will be multiple people interested in giving their input.

Here are the nations I want to form (in parentheses = OTL land equivalents):


 * United States of America (New England, the other states northeast of Maryland, and possible some Canadian territories)
 * Confederate States of America (the traditional South, including Kentucky, minus Florida, Texas and half of Louisiana)
 * Confederation of Svensland (Great Lakes region, plus Ontario, Iowa, Minnesota, northern Missouri, eastern Dakotas, southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan)
 * Republic of Florida (Florida plus the Cuba and Gulf Coast to the Mississippi River)
 * Republic of Texas (Texas plus parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Lousiana)
 * Republic of California (California, Arizona, eastern New Mexico)
 * Republic of Deseret (Utah, Nevada; parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and maybe Arizona)
 * Confederation of Native Nations (All the lands between the CSA, Svensland and Deseret, including Washington state, Montana and the southern half of British Columbia)
 * Mexico (Pretty much the same as OTL)

Points of discussion:


 * I want China to divide into China and Manchuria, with Manchuria taking over the Russian Far East and colonizing Alaska and northwestern Canada
 * I might want to retain the Yucatan Republic: what do y’all think?


 * Options for Eastern Canada---
 * Acadia, Newfoundland and Labrador to USA; Quebec independent
 * All one independent nation (Acadia or Quebec?)
 * Retained as an English colony, possibly to become independent as Canada in the mid- to late 1900’s
 * Quebec goes to Svensland; the rest to USA, England or independent
 * USA takes the land between New England and the St Lawrence River, the remainder as in any of the above options


 * I have a map, but it's not suitable to put up here, and I don't know how to do that, anyway. Does someone want to help me here?