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ATLBack&Forwards: The Revolution of 1877
I am thinking about the entry in What Ifs? of American History and coming up with a stronger build up to a revolutionary situation than what transpired IOTL 1877, and also what might come next.
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1869-1877: Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
1868 (with Schuyler Colfax) def. Horatio Seymour (Democratic)
1872 (with Henry Wilson) def. Thomas A. Hendricks (Democratic), Benjamin Gratz Brown (Liberal Republican / Democratic),Horace Greeley (Liberal Republican / Democratic), Charles Jones Jenkins (Democratic), David Davis (Liberal Republican)
1876 Hayes Assassination; declaration of Martial Law; [disputed] establishment of 'Grant Regime'
1877-1877: Thomas W. Ferry (Republican), Acting
1877 State governors begin declaring the 'legitimate' victor along partisan lines
1877-1877: Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) / Samuel J. Tilden (Democratic)
1876 [disputed]; Samuel J. Tilden (Democratic), Ulysses S. Grant (Republican), William A. Wheeler (Republican),Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1877 Senate and House discipline collapses; partisans declare they have the numbers to elect the 'legitimate' President
1877 Beginning of the Revolution; The Great Railroad Strike, cutting across partisan and state boundaries - National Guard, federal and informal militias are divided and ill-prepared
1877-1877: William A. Wheeler (Republican)
1877 Grant Resignation citing health concerns; Wheeler comes to the Bloody Compromise with Democrats, promising withdrawal of federal troops from the South - hoping to unite against the striking workers
1877 Southern Rising; former federal troops join forces with black militias against 'Redeemer' forces - later join up with KOL forces
1877-1879: Thomas W. Ferry (Republican)
1877 Fall of Washington DC to revolutionaries; Wheeler resigns and president pro tempore Ferry rapidly seeks a peace with the revolutionaries
1878 Consummation of the Revolution; KOL, black militias and loyalist federal army crush remaining pockets of 'Redeemers'
1879-1883: Uriah Smith Stephens (Nonpartisan / Socialist Labor)
1878 (with James Parsons) def. David Davis (Nonpartisan / Republican / Democratic), Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Straight-Out Democratic)
1879 'Revolutionary' Constitutional Convention; formalises many demands of the labor movement, and establishes single term, six year Presidency
1882 President Stephens declines invitation to run for the additional term he alone is entitled to, having become disillusioned since the KOL's victory in the Second Revolution
1883-1889: Terence V. Powderly (Nonpartisan / National Workingmen's / Democratic)
1882 (with Henry George) def. James Parsons (Socialist Labor), Benjamin F. Butler (Republican)
1883 Vice Presidential election crisis; bitterly divided electoral college for the Vice Presidential nomination results in the narrow election of the Republican nominee Henry George
1884 Passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, very public dispute between President and Vice President, resulting in polarisation of the party political system
1889-1892: Henry George (Socialist Labor / Republican)
1888 (with Joseph Rainey) def. Denis Kearney (National Workingmen's / Democratic)
1892-1894: Joseph Rainey (Republican)
1892 George Assassination amidst passage of a reversal of the Chinese Exclusion Act; riots break out over Rainey's accession, KOL splits badly
1893 Attempted impeachment of Rainey, SLP-Republican majority manages to block it but only narrowly
1893 President Rainey v United States; Rainey is initially denied capacity to run for a term in his own right, citing that he would served half a term already; SLP and Republicans dispute this as racially motivated
1894 President Rainey v United States; Rainey appoints Justices to 'pack' the Court, which promptly rules in his favour
1894-1895: Jacob Dolson Cox (Lily-White Republican)
1894 Impeachment of Rainey; Court 'packing' leads to Lily-White Republicans blanching and joining NWP-Democrat coalition to remove him from office
1895-0000: Samuel Gompers (National Workingmen's / Democratic / Lily-White Republican) / Eugene V. Debs (Socialist Labor / Black-and-Tan Republican)
1894 [disputed]; Samuel Gompers (National Workingmen's / Democratic / Lily-White Republican), Eugene V. Debs (Socialist Labor / Black-and-Tan Republican),Joseph Rainey (Sociaist Labor / Black-and-Tan Republican)
1894 Attempted 'Second Redemption'; NWP aligned KOL factions make a widespread show of force to prevent Black-Americans from voting, in order to ensure victory; Railroad brotherhoods and Western miners organise in favour of Debs; SLP aligned KOL factions march on the Capitol; neither side acknowledges the others legitimacy
1894 was supposed to be the year that Americans picked their President who would see in the new century, hopefully. But its has come to naught as once more, the United States is plunged into domestic insurgency and conflagration. The 1877 Revolution was supposed to enshrine American Democracy as sacrosanct, the United States as the first "Worker's Republic" irrespective of race or colour. But over the intervening years, nativism has once more reared its head, and the new party system has radicalised over the question of Chinese Exclusion. Despite the 1879 Constitution enshrining the place of naturalised Americans within the political process, some of those very same Americans have taken the opportunity to deny others the right to make their Worker's Republic a welcoming home. And as the gyre widens, the Revolution has taken to consuming its own sacred cows. The Democrats, long hobbled by association with the Confederacy and Kukluxism, have taken the opportunity to begin a 'Second Redemption' of the South. Meanwhile the Republicans 'Loyal Leagues' see a sudden resurgence joining socialist factions of the Knights of Labor in a great march on Washington to protest the accession of the British-born Samuel Gompers and the assumed entrenchment of white supremacy that will follow...
ATLBack&Forwards: The Revolution of 1877
I am thinking about the entry in What Ifs? of American History and coming up with a stronger build up to a revolutionary situation than what transpired IOTL 1877, and also what might come next.
View attachment 64521
1869-1877: Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
1868 (with Schuyler Colfax) def. Horatio Seymour (Democratic)
1872 (with Henry Wilson) def. Thomas A. Hendricks (Democratic), Benjamin Gratz Brown (Liberal Republican / Democratic),
1876 Hayes Assassination; declaration of Martial Law; [disputed] establishment of 'Grant Regime'
1877-1877: Thomas W. Ferry (Republican), Acting
1877 State governors begin declaring the 'legitimate' victor along partisan lines
1877-1877: Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) / Samuel J. Tilden (Democratic)
1876 [disputed]; Samuel J. Tilden (Democratic), Ulysses S. Grant (Republican), William A. Wheeler (Republican),
1877 Senate and House discipline collapses; partisans declare they have the numbers to elect the 'legitimate' President
1877 Beginning of the Revolution; The Great Railroad Strike, cutting across partisan and state boundaries - National Guard, federal and informal militias are divided and ill-prepared
1877-1877: William A. Wheeler (Republican)
1877 Grant Resignation citing health concerns; Wheeler comes to the Bloody Compromise with Democrats, promising withdrawal of federal troops from the South - hoping to unite against the striking workers
1877 Southern Rising; former federal troops join forces with black militias against 'Redeemer' forces - later join up with KOL forces
1877-1879: Thomas W. Ferry (Republican)
1877 Fall of Washington DC to revolutionaries; Wheeler resigns and president pro tempore Ferry rapidly seeks a peace with the revolutionaries
1878 Consummation of the Revolution; KOL, black militias and loyalist federal army crush remaining pockets of 'Redeemers'
1879-1883: Uriah Smith Stephens (Nonpartisan / Socialist Labor)
1878 (with James Parsons) def. David Davis (Nonpartisan / Republican / Democratic), Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Straight-Out Democratic)
1879 'Revolutionary' Constitutional Convention; formalises many demands of the labor movement, and establishes single term, six year Presidency
1882 President Stephens declines invitation to run for the additional term he alone is entitled to, having become disillusioned since the KOL's victory in the Second Revolution
1883-1889: Terence V. Powderly (Nonpartisan / National Workingmen's / Democratic)
1882 (with Henry George) def. James Parsons (Socialist Labor), Benjamin F. Butler (Republican)
1883 Vice Presidential election crisis; bitterly divided electoral college for the Vice Presidential nomination results in the narrow election of the Republican nominee Henry George
1884 Passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, very public dispute between President and Vice President, resulting in polarisation of the party political system
1889-1892: Henry George (Socialist Labor / Republican)
1888 (with Joseph Rainey) def. Denis Kearney (National Workingmen's / Democratic)
1892-1894: Joseph Rainey (Republican)
1892 George Assassination amidst passage of a reversal of the Chinese Exclusion Act; riots break out over Rainey's accession, KOL splits badly
1893 Attempted impeachment of Rainey, SLP-Republican majority manages to block it but only narrowly
1893 President Rainey v United States; Rainey is initially denied capacity to run for a term in his own right, citing that he would served half a term already; SLP and Republicans dispute this as racially motivated
1894 President Rainey v United States; Rainey appoints Justices to 'pack' the Court, which promptly rules in his favour
1894-1895: Jacob Dolson Cox (Lily-White Republican)
1894 Impeachment of Rainey; Court 'packing' leads to Lily-White Republicans blanching and joining NWP-Democrat coalition to remove him from office
1895-0000: Samuel Gompers (National Workingmen's / Democratic / Lily-White Republican) / Eugene V. Debs (Socialist Labor / Black-and-Tan Republican)
1894 [disputed]; Samuel Gompers (National Workingmen's / Democratic / Lily-White Republican), Eugene V. Debs (Socialist Labor / Black-and-Tan Republican),
1894 Attempted 'Second Redemption'; NWP aligned KOL factions make a widespread show of force to prevent Black-Americans from voting, in order to ensure victory; Railroad brotherhoods and Western miners organise in favour of Debs; SLP aligned KOL factions march on the Capitol; neither side acknowledges the others legitimacy
1894 was supposed to be the year that Americans picked their President who would see in the new century, hopefully. But its has come to naught as once more, the United States is plunged into domestic insurgency and conflagration. The 1877 Revolution was supposed to enshrine American Democracy as sacrosanct, the United States as the first "Worker's Republic" irrespective of race or colour. But over the intervening years, nativism has once more reared its head, and the new party system has radicalised over the question of Chinese Exclusion. Despite the 1879 Constitution enshrining the place of naturalised Americans within the political process, some of those very same Americans have taken the opportunity to deny others the right to make their Worker's Republic a welcoming home. And as the gyre widens, the Revolution has taken to consuming its own sacred cows. The Democrats, long hobbled by association with the Confederacy and Kukluxism, have taken the opportunity to begin a 'Second Redemption' of the South. Meanwhile the Republicans 'Loyal Leagues' see a sudden resurgence joining socialist factions of the Knights of Labor in a great march on Washington to protest the accession of the British-born Samuel Gompers and the assumed entrenchment of white supremacy that will follow...