Map Thread I

Is Norway communist in this timeline?

Where does the Norwegian monarchy go to in exile? Britain?

Kind of a 'space-filling empires' map for North America.

USA: After Jonathon Eddy won Nova Scotia during the Revolution, and Quebec joined the United States, the new nation seemed poised to settle all of North America.  United Empire Loyalists went instead to land ceded by Spain to the British Empire south of its South American holdings in exchange for getting both Florida and Cuba back from the British in 1783.  The War of 1812 still occurred due to the impressment of US soldiers and the British presence on Newfoundland and Labrador and with fur trappers north of the St Lawrence watershed.  The northern interest in protective tariffs continued, challenged by South Carolina in 1828's Nullification of the Tariff of Abominations.  Interested in protecting their industries, the north began attacking southern slavery, despite their own complicity in the slave trade for over 200 years.  Texas declared its independence in 1836 from Mexico, and it aided Rio Grande in 1840 to achieve its independence.  Mexico stewed and finally attacked when Texas and Rio Grande joined the United States in 1846, resulting in the Mexican-American War.  Lasting about 2 years, a little less than OTL, the war resulted in a new settlement with the Mexicans, ceding all land west of Rio Grande, including San Luis Potosi and Zacatecas, down to the 29th parallel, a portion of the state of Veracruz.  At the same time, President Polk negotiated with the British, achieving a larger share of Oregon Country to the 52nd parallel, as without Quebec/Canada, there was much less settlement and much less need to hold onto their North American lands. 

Northern newspapers continued agitating against the southern states, the Compromise of 1850 barely calming them down; California was admitted as two states - California and Baja California (below the 37th parallel) - the northern California becoming a free state, the southern a slave state, to maintain the Senate balance between the two sections.  The north sought to add more northern states to increase their power, while the South sought to introduce southern states to try to maintain some balance.  By 1860, after the John Brown incident in Kansas and in Harpers Ferry, the southerners believed they were no longer safe within the Union and left.  Initially, the north let them leave until they realized that much of their tariff revenue was going through those ports, and the new confederation's lower tariff essentially nullified their newly passed Morrill Tariff; that was when Lincoln called for 75,000 troops to suppress the 'rebellion', causing the secession of several more states.  After 4 years of war, the north was defeated, only after the south emancipated their slaves and won foreign recognition.

After the war, the north needed revenue, and turned west, with a much more aggressive Indian removal policy to settle the lands and find new resources.  Settlement to the north proceeded also, and by 1878, the British sold Rupert's Land and the Northwest Territories to the Americans and Confederates for several million dollars, as they weren't getting much for the land, leaving only Newfoundland as the lone holdout off the once vast British Empire.  Over the 19th century, the Americans would gain several islands, including Samoa (later traded to the Confederates for their support in acquiring the Solomons, Fiji, and a few other territories).

By the end of the 20th century, there would be 50 United States, not including the territory of Greenland.  The US never entered the European War, as there was no causus belli, despite the maneuvering and propaganda.  It did enter the second European War, and experienced a huge economic boom as one of two economies not devastated by the war.  The 1950s were a boom time for the Americans, though there was no 'big bad' to keep the country on war footing with the Russians no longer communist.  Americans did enter Africa as the colonies decolonized in the 1960s, as 'peacekeepers,' mostly in Somalia, Sudan, Nigeria, and in Asia in Vietnam, in several wars that lasted till 1972.  With increased spending, the Americans went off the gold standard and began the petrodollar, backing the dollar by middle-eastern nations selling only in the USD, creating much higher artificial demand for it.  In the 1970s-1980s the US went into various Central and Southern American nations again on 'peacekeeping' missions, until the Confederate States made an agreement with then that resulted in their pullout by 1989.  In 1991, the Americans went into Iraq, ending the invasion of Kuwait, then went into the collapsed Yugoslavia in several engagements, Thailand, and Burma before returning to Iraq in 2003, in addition to Afghanistan in 2001.  One US general boasted they would topple seven nations (Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran) in five years.  Most didn't get toppled, however, and the US would begin drawing down troops in 2012, after having toppled Libya, which was attempting to create a gold pan-African currency, which would've challenged the dominance of the dollar.

CSA: leaving the United States over the tariff, internal improvements, northern terrorism, and the regulation of the western territories, the Confederates fought four years against the strongest army in the western hemisphere, barely holding them off until they emancipated their slaves in 1864.  After holding Atlanta in November, the British and French recognized the new nation.  Lincoln tried one last time at Hampton Roads to get the south to rejoin the Union, but they rejected the offer.  Once peace was settled, the southerners took Kentucky and Missouri in the settlement, but ceded a notch for Nevada to have river access.  Settling west, the Confederates took the opportunity to purchase Alaska from the Russians in 1867, and in 1874, annexed Hawaii before the US could stage a coup against the natives.  They stumbled into war with Spain, but gained Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Mariana Islands, while the Spanish sold the Philippines to the US, recouping some of the cost of the war.  In 1878, in a deal with the British in their divestiture of their last continental holdings, they received the Yukon territory, 120 W to the Pacific, and then along the continental divide to the 52nd parallel, the US state of Columbia.  

The CS were maneuvered into war with Mexico and France, called World War 1.  France and Russia were at war with the Germans and Austro-Hungarians over Serbia, and France promised Mexico its northern lands back if it sided with France.  The Americans stayed out of the war as did the British, while the Confederates joined in 1915, first against Mexico, then against France in 1916.  The United States tried to enter the war, but they were even more isolationist than the Confederates.  France capitulated without any aid, while Russia fell to a revolution; Austria-Hungary tried to federate after the war, but collapsed, and split into multiple nations (German Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia); and the Turks were forced to cede Trebizond, the Aegean coast, Cyprus, and a large area to Kurdistan and Armenia. The CS claimed Guyana, Martinique, Polynesia, New Caledonia, and Guadeloupe, and had bought the Bahamas, Bermuda, and the Virgin Islands from the British to forgive some British war debts.  Twenty years later, France had fallen to a fascist dictatorship as had Italy, Germany, Austria, and Poland, and Soviet Russia took the opportunity to attack Poland and Germany-Austria preemptively.  France allied itself with Soviet Russia to reclaim parts of Germany, and when they went through Belgium, the British joined against them, followed soon after by the Confederates and Americans; after 5 years of horrible war, a German revolution (Operation Valkyrie) toppled its fascist regime, and the new government surrendered itself to the British-American-Confederate alliance, putting its entire military force at their command, essentially.  Within another six months, the combined forces had toppled Italy, France, and Poland, and were approaching Moscow before the Soviets sued for peace, after losing another 2 million men.

Within months of the end of the war, the Soviets collapsed, and a much more limited confederated republic was put in place.  In China, without the Soviets, the Chinese communists were exiled to 'Manchuria' and split from mainland China, where they would collapse in the 1990s without any foreign recognition of their regime.  Without the Soviets, Korea remained united thanks to allied support.  Germany was occupied and de-fascist-ized, as were Italy, Poland, and France, by the Americans, British, and Confederates.  Poland had a new republic, as did France and Italy; Italy was ceded Savoy, Nice, and Corsica for France's part in starting the war, and Germany got Belfort, Briey, and the land east of the Moselle attached to Alsace-Lorraine; Austria and Germany were forbidden to unify, while Austria kept Teschen, Sudetenland, Vierburgenland, and German Bohemia.  During the 1950s, the Europeans were merged into an economic free trade zone and a collective security zone called the European Confederation that eventually became something like the American Union under the Articles of Confederation, eventually releasing the Euro currency in 2001.

By the end of the 20th century, there would be 40 Confederate States.

Mexico: Mexico won independence in the 1820s from Spain but suffered under a legacy of unstable and corrupt governments due to their colonial legacy.  In 1836, Texans seceded to protect the rights violated in the 1826 Mexican Constitution, and soon after, Rio Grande and Yucatan did also.  Rio Grande and Texas secured Rio Grander independence, and Mexico declared war on the United States for annexing their territory in 1846, resulting in the loss of almost all land north of the 29th parallel, but recognition of Mexican sovereignty over Yucatan.  After the war, the Americans paid Mexico for their land, which went to infrastructure projects, bringing rail and new public buildings to the much smaller nation.  The Porfirio came about, with even more infrastructure, including massive rail projects and public sanitation spending, but a new President came into power, even more corrupt than the last.  When France promised its northern land back, Mexicans began pointing to the Confederates as the source of their troubles as a country, and the reconquista of their land would be the resolution of their troubles.  They entered the first great war as a semi-ally of the French, but their two years of fighting resulted in defeat at the hands of the Confederates, a large number of whom were descendants of Mexicans who remained north of the 29th parallel.  Again, the Mexican government fell, but this time, the Confederates occupied the country to prevent another war, and sorted Mexico out, creating a new constitution that severely limited their central government.  Mexico participated in the second great war, as an ally of the Confederates, providing food, alcohol, oil, gold, silver, and copper to them.  Slowly but surely, Mexico was becoming more prosperous and less corrupt.  

By the end of the 20th century, Mexico was roughly as prosperous as any CS or US state, with a total GDP of about $3.4 trillion in 2020.

Explanation.

1. The US inundation is what should be expected if east Texas and Lousiania were about 7 meters lower in elevation.
2. The Great Salt Lake was once an inland sea.
3. I took liberties with expected Wilsonian shenanigans at Versailes, that never happened.
4. South Sudan is a result of a botched expedition that never rescued Gordon... er Custer.
5. Uganda is not worth the effort.
6. Italy gets that chunk of worthless shoreline because Americans looked it over and thought... "nah".
7. Sri Lanka? Bailiff of Malta (French admiral) hands the USN its rump and post 1815 France gives them their independence after a Haiti style rebellion kicks them out. 
8. Wilson keeps his promise to the Arabs.
9. Chiang Kai Shek's generals do not screw up the Shanghai campaign as badly as they did and the Japanese hold off further north. 

That is my story and I am sticking to it.
 

The Japan current carries Pacific thermal energy to the west of North America. It is the Gulf Stream system scaled up 100%,