Try this one...
This Q6 low manna parallel is called
Lincoln-7 because it diverges with a major change in Abraham Lincoln's life. The change is that a former slave, Ms. Henrietta Randolph-Lee, discovered the plot to kill Lincoln on April 7th, 1865. After failing to convince anyone of the threat, Henrietta, who had worked as a fieldhand and was far stronger than she looked, waylaid Booth on the 14th and beat him to death with a hammer.
Henrietta was arrested, but once the plot to kill Lincoln got uncovered she became a hero, and, unlike other parallels, she found her lost family members and lived to a ripe old age. And with Lincoln running
Reconstruction firmer and more radical measures were taken, while the government took time to show respect to the losers. The Planter elites, seen by many as the cause of the war (and who were largely pardoned and given their land back by
Andrew Johnson) lost most of their lands as punishment for their crimes. Following certain ideas of Thomas Jefferson, Lincoln distributed the lands of the planter elites among ex-slaves and the poor of any race (it turned out much like the land reforms America promoted after WWII that were organized by
Wolf Ladejinsky). Many sneered at this as
Forty Acres and a Mule, although the lots were substancially larger.
These measures meant poor Whites needed to support the rights of Black folks in order to hold their own lands. Thus the
Lost Cause had few takers outside of the remnants of the Planter Elites. American race relations skipped ahead about 165 years in the next 45 years. With racism against Black Folks kicked to the curb, racism against other groups (Native Americans, Latinos, Asians, etc) collapsed as well. Women's rights progressed rapidly too. Class issues were addressed as well. Even the limited tolerance is shown LBGTQ people became greater rather than facing a series of brutal backlashes between 1890 and 1940. By 1912 America was reelecting its first African American President.
1913 is the local year.
TR's handpicked successor, Emanuel Jackson is in his second term and has gotten through most of the Progressive reforms that in Homeline history were pushed through in the
Wilson administration and a good deal more of the
Left-wing of the Progressive agenda as well. America is doing fine, Europe has serious issues though.
Basically, the colonized peoples of the world and the poor of Europe are looking at America and saying, "Why not us?" Those that hold and profit from the colonial empires are appalled. Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and Austria, have come to the conclusion that America must be made to behave with more decorum and circumspection.
This is an Alternate WWI, or not. Maybe your PCs can prevent the war. Centrum likes how egalitarian this USA is, but if this America continues to thrive the British Empire will probably fall. With the combined might of the British, French, and German Navies, the European powers can ship vast armies to Canada and invade America from the North. But this is a far more United America and this Canada are far too honorable to be a mere assassin under imperial orders.
Both Homeline and the Cabal (for very different reasons) wants to prevent a war between Europe and America.