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| − | Formation of the Lone Star Republic (LSR)
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| − | * Many are unhappy with CSA brutality & abuses after the Confederate Revelution.
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| − | * Sam Houston makes a deal with USA president George McClellan.
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| − | o LSR withdraws from CSA.
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| − | o LSR gives up slavery.
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| − | o USA keeps pressure on CSA northern border in case there is conflict.
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| − | * Sam Houston forms a treaty with many of the Indian nations.
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| − | o Near sovereignty for the Lone Star Indian Territories (LSIT.)
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| − | + Council of Chiefs (CoC) holds veto power over laws within LSIT.
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| − | + CoC can pass legislature within LSIT.
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| − | + CoC can submit legislature withing LSR.
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| − | o Indians will help defend LSIT and LSR.
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| − | * Sam Houston organizes enough political support to break Texas away from the CSA.
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| − | o In February 1866, Sam Houston becomes first president of LSR.
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| − | o Military actions by the Northwest Confederacy (NWC) are rebuffed by Indians.
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| − | + Their defense of the LSR gains them respect by many.
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| − | o Despite some friction, no major action by CSA.
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| − | + Partially becuase of thinking that Texas had the right to secede.
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| − | + Partially because of USA pressure on northern border.
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| − | Presidency of the LSR
| + | '''Links''' |
| − | * The president serves a 5-year term.
| + | * The [[Counterculture/Lone Star Republic|Lone Star Republic]] |
| − | * A president can not succeed himself.
| + | * The [[Counterculture/Lone Star Indian Territories|Lone Star Indian Territories]] |
| | + | * The [[Counterculture/Confederate States of America|Confederate States of America]] |
| | + | * The [[Counterculture/Free American Republic|Free American Republic]] |
| | + | * [[Counterculture/North America|North America]] |
| | + | * Complete [[Counterculture/World Timeline|World Timeline]] |
| | + | * [[Counterculture/Maps|Maps]] |
| | + | * [[Counterculture/Washington and Lee University|Washington and Lee University]] |
| | + | * [[Counterculture/Integration Protest|Integration Protest]] |
| | + | * [http://counterculture.brancog.org/casting.py/form Casting Questionnaire] |
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| − | Politics in the LSR
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| − | * 2 major political parties:
| + | * [[Counterculture/Editing Information|Editing Information]] |
| − | o Free Soil Party: socially moderate-permissive, fiscally permissive.
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| − | o Labor Party: socially moderate, fiscally restrictive
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| − | United States of America (USA):
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| − | * Capital: Philadelphia
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| − | * 2 major political parties:
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| − | o American Party: socially restrictive, fiscally permissive
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| − | o Democratic Party: socially moderate, fiscally moderate
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| − | * 17 states after Secession War: Conneticut, Delaware, Indiana, Ohio, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, & Wisconson.
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| − | * Parts of northern Kentucky are absorbed into Indiana & Ohio at the end of the Secession War.
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| − | * 2 more states join the USA during the Northwest Revolutionary War which leads to the FAR: Illinois & North Missouri.
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| − | o This lets all four countries have a border with Kansas after the formation of FAR (assuming South Missouri goes to the CSA.)
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| − | * USA is puritanical: most freedoms but with censorship, especially regarding sex. No successful socially liberal political party.
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| − | * Constant problem with uneducated blacks as illegal immigrants from the CSA.
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| − | Timeline:
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| − | * 1864 (June): The NWC breaks away from the USA..
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| − | * 1864 (September): The end of Confederate Revolutionary War.
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| − | * 1866 (February): The LSR breaks away from the CSA.
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| − | * 1867 (March): The UK creates the Dominion of Canada.
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| − | * 18?? (?): The Farite Revolutionary War.
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| − | * 1875 (March): The UK gives complete sovereignty to the Dominion of Canada.
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| − | * 1896 (August): Canada's negotiations to purchase Alaska from Russia disolve with the Klondike gold rush.
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| − | * 1914 (June): World War I begins.
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| − | * 1917 (August): Russian Revolutionary War begins in Alaska.
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| − | * 1917 (November): Russia withdraws from WWI.
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| − | * 1918 (October): WWI ends with dissolution of the Ottoman Empire & harsh penalties imposed on Germany.
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| − | * 1939 (September): WWII begins with German invasion of Poland.
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| − | * 1945 (July): WWII ends when Russia drops an atomic bomb on Berlin.
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| − | * 1947 (January): The EU is formed.
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| − | * 1950 (October): The AU is formed.
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| − | General Notes:
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| − | * Kansas is the Poland of North America.
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| − | * Cuba is the Switzerland of North America.
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| − | * No oil outside of LSR.
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| − | o This retards the use of automobiles in North America.
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| − | * The American Alliance is forged during WWII to send aid to allies in Europe.
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| − | * The American Union (AU) starts with Canada, the USA, & the LSR in 1950.
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| − | o The FAR & Mexico enter the AU in 1951.
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| − | o The CSA enters the AU in 1952.
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| − | o Kansas petitions for its own seat in the AU and enters in 1961.
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| − | * New Jersey is the movie capital of North America.
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| − | * Largest media organizations are located in the FAR.
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| − | * Slang terms: Wankees (Yankees), Cons (Confederates), Greasies (Texians), Farts (Farites)
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| − | * <a href ="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ElectoralCollege1864-Large.png">Map of "America" during 1864</a>
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