Wilmot Proviso passed

[Ricardolindo]

The Wilmot Proviso, which would have banned slavery in the Mexican Cession, actually could have passed Congress in 1846. What if it did and Polk signed it? Would the South have pushed for the acquisition of Cuba and Puerto Rico as slave states in response?

 

[Jackson Lennock]

The Compromise of 1850 would have seen Texas made into multiple states.

There may have been more demand for the Gadsden purchase to include enough new territory for an additional slave state to be carved out.

There'd have been a bigger push to grab Cuba and Puerto Rico, but that'd be tough thing to do.

Indian Territory might be admitted as a slave state.

William Walker's endeavor might get more support.

Republic of Yucatan wasn't annexed back to Mexico until 1848. OTL an annexation treaty passed the House but failed in the Senate under Polk in 1848. That very likely gets a closer look here.

 

[Ricardolindo]

The Compromise of 1850 would have seen Texas made into multiple states.

There may have been more demand for the Gadsden purchase to include enough new territory for an additional slave state to be carved out.

There'd have been a bigger push to grab Cuba and Puerto Rico, but that'd be tough thing to do.

Indian Territory might be admitted as a slave state.

William Walker's endeavor might get more support.

Republic of Yucatan wasn't annexed back to Mexico until 1848. OTL an annexation treaty passed the House but failed in the Senate under Polk in 1848. That very likely gets a closer look here.

The problem with splitting Texas is that Southern and especially Western Texas are fairly arid and not good for plantation slavery.
Would you say the US Navy was not likely to defeat the Spanish Navy at this time?
As for annexing the Yucatan, I don't think that was ever feasible. The Yucatan is covered in jungle and full of Mayans and mixed race people.

 

[Jackson Lennock]

The problem with splitting Texas is that Southern and especially Western Texas are fairly arid and not good for plantation slavery.
Would you say the US Navy was not likely to defeat the Spanish Navy at this time?
As for annexing the Yucatan, I don't think that was ever feasible. The Yucatan is covered in jungle and full of Mayans and mixed race people.

Yucatan was run by Criollos and Mestizos, groups which in the American Southwest seemed to align with American southerners. I don't see why their goal for having serfdom in Yucatan would be all that different from the Southerners wanting slavery. An insurgency would become a festering sore akin to bleeding Kansas though.

The Mesilla Valley, Rio Grande Valley, and portions of Texas along the coastal plan and San Antonio and Colorado rivers can be productive agricultural zones.



The Bell line seems possible. The Wilmot Proviso doesn't include the bits taken from Mexico which the US claimed were part of Texas.


Maybe this?