What if AMERICA won the War of 1812? Animated Alternate History

If the United States successfully took Canada in the War of 1812, it would’ve solved all future problems with the British government over border disputes and completely avoided the the San Juan Islands incident with the Pig War (yes, that’s a real thing that actually happened)

During World War I the United States would have probably been completely neutral in this timeline. The national anthem for the United States in this timeline would probably be “America The Beautiful.” The Battle Hym of The Republic wouldn’t have been written in this timeline because John Brown wouldn’t have fought to free slaves because slavery would have been abolished way earlier in this timeline. I brought this up because “The Battle Hymn of the Republic had inspiration from what John Brown was fighting for.

I honestly think the US in this timeline would let in everyone who wants to escape WW1. I think this deserves a part 2 explaining what you and other commenters think would happen in WW1.

I think hail Columbia would have been the most likely anthem as historically speaking it was the unofficial anthem 1931.

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Another idea to think about in the meantime: What if the Habsburgs won the Brother's War agaisnt Prussia and they were the ones that united Germany.

Great Video. One point to note is that Kentucky never joined the Confederate States, just like some other slaves states (Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware), in our timeline. Per this timeline, West Virginia would not likely have become a state, as West Virginia was mostly made up of counties loyal to the Union. Your map does reflect it, but it could have been mentioned. Also, I think that due to the War of 1812 going as you had mentioned, I think it is likely that Napoleon would have been able to hold onto power after the Battle of Waterloo. It's likely that his dynasty would have been overthrown for another republic at some future point. However, I also think it's possible that the USA would have maintained its strong economic ties with France as a minimum. Because of this, I still think the USA would have been an important trading partner to France during WWI, and with unrestricted German submarine warfare, it's possible the USA might have been dragged into the conflict. (In our timeline) WWI kicked off in the summer of 1914, but the USA wouldn't even declare war on Germany until early 1917, but still took about another year before the USA actually fielded its own army. I still think things would have happened much like it did before. Wilson ran for reelection in 1916 with the slogan that he kept us out of the war. He won, and then we declared war shortly into his 2nd term.

This one was pretty neat. I enjoyed how during Madison presidency, you didn’t gloss over the slavery issue where I’m other alternate histories it would either lead up as the exact same like in our timeline only both sides are larger or how it was quickly dealt with early on with no repercussions, with the way how you believed he’d deal with it being more reasonable. I think that at least within the mainland, there would’ve been fewer states seceding since steps would’ve been taken to have it dealt with slavery before, along with the fact that the buildup wouldn’t have been as severe due to it happening earlier. Instead I’d imagine smaller rebellions in most of those southern, with mostly the deep southern and some of the Caribbean islands being the only states to try and leave, especially with Virginia being one of the two main cultural centers of the south(other being South Carolina), and then decided to stick with the Union. With Quebec, I would actually agree with you on how they would go about. Ecpecially with how they treated other groups, my only gripe here is that Quebec French population is to large for it to be ignored, in which I do expect the occasional rebellion at the beginning parts of the occupation, until either they reached an understanding after a they dealt with them enough for them to not be an active force against the English speakers. Finally when it comes to them go the isolationist route, I can’t really see it unless it was the type of policy they had in OTL, but to me I feel that after acquiring so much they would be just emboldened to do more, especially with the business and economic interests that Western Europe and especially England had with the rest of the Americas. Still really like this one and glad that these manage to come in so quickly.

Please, continue the Alexander videos. They were extremely interesting and easily the best videos I've ever seen on the subject.

America in WW1, in my opinion, would try to prevent any fighting on its continent as part of the Monroe Doctrine: the US would want to keep the continent under her control somehow. Things would change with the Zimmerman Telegram, and I think that the UK would still intercept it and tell the US about it. Why ? Convinience. It would be very convenient for the Entente to have this massive America on their side. So, it would basically go a bit like in OTL.

I've just come across your channel and I have to say that I absolutely LOVE how you go through the war like it's historical fact, presenting it in a way similar to a documentary and not going off too much on a half dozen different possibilities. You have an idea on how the war and politics go, and you present it so well.

Honestly I would be down for a part two where this goes into the modern day just to see how it would effect modern American politics as a whole

AMAZING production quality! You've got potential.

Wait shouldn't the map be Greenland to Panama.

I'd love to see you continue this idea! I'd love to see it become a series! also, I can see your James Madison being something plausible 👍🏾 I do like James Madison

Great video! My only nitpick is that Mobile Alabama isn’t pronounced “mo-bile” as in a mobile phone, but “mo-beel” named after the Maubilla Amerindians

In my idea about the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania, how much wide the effect of its survival do you think it will be? Of course, I already mentioned about Austria-Hungary being the one that unify Germany and the Ottoman Empire might joined the Thirty Years' War and seized Vienna. But will the survival of the Commonwealth allowed Napoleon III to remain in power as the Emperor of the French? Will it also contributed to the Ottoman Empire's survival somehow? Will Russia still existed? Will Circassia be an independent nation? What will happened to the the Crimean Khanate? Is the Second Mexican Empire be a thing here? I see no reasons why these events cannot happened as the consequences of the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania is still being around.

Amazing video as always! You always knock it out of the park!

Really liked how you did this video. Looking forward to seeing more!

Great video, lots of insight here.