40 Years post-Revolution

A map from a branched TL to the Commonwealth of America, where things have gone rather differently.

It is 1876; in 1774, the Galloway Plan is adopted by the First Continental Congress, and what in our timeline became the USA remains part of the British Empire. But both America, and the Home Islands, begins to seethe with discontent under the rule of the despotic King Augustus, and finally in 1836 revolution breaks out on both sides of the Atlantic.

Three men become the founders of their respective nations; in New England, Henry Clay routs the Royalists and joins up with his Chartist brothers in Britain to form a new Republic based on Religious Liberty and Freedom. Virginian Daniel Webster decides to lead the middle colonies on their own course, free from overseas influence. And in the South, diehard Royalist John Calhoun welcomes the exiled King to Charleston and plots to expand the institution of slavery across the American continent...