The American Experiment (Riot Quest)

Summary of the summary:


This story began in 1890. The failure to pass the Sherman Anti-Trust Act resulted in a continued lack of faith in the government of the gilded age. This was but one of several incidents, such as the Haymarket Affair or Homestead Massacre. This was followed by the birth and growth of several leftist groups, buoyed by the mainstream party's failures.

The West Coast Union association began in California as a collection of farmworker unions. Eventually the Western Federation of Miners would become and associate, and they would convince many other western unions to join.

The Land and Labor Reform Party would form in Michigan on a Georgist platform. They began small, but already had a youth/scouting organization serving to help long term growth.

The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists was founded, making inroads in the Order of Railway Conductors. In the years to come it would be one of the founders of the American Railway Union, the anarchist influence radicalizing them beyond what they would otherwise have been. They also began organizing new unions and newspapers in New York City, becoming a mainstay of the city's organized working class. They infiltrated the police with anarchist saboteurs, spying on them and trying to sabotage them. They would also eventually do work with immigrants, helping them find jobs and aid.

In the South a group of African Americans founded the Forty Acres Movement which desired to fulfill the promise of the civil war: 40 acres and a mule to each family. They would buy up land and redistribute it to fulfill this promise, but it was slow going. They grew the fastest, tens of thousands per year, and quickly began mutual aid and self defense efforts. They expanded to the larger towns and New Orleans, affiliating with the multi-racial unions after a successful city-wide general strike. Open fighting with white supremacists began by '91 in the fields of the south.

On the west coast the Friends of Huddled Masses began organizing the Chinese population for civil rights. They soon merged with the Association of Friends of the Yellow Scarves, which became its militant anarchist-influenced wing. They set up mutual aid groups, connected Chinese majority towns, bought their own factories for employment, and worked with the unions. Eventually this would cause the Chinese unions to join the WCUA, a beginning to the end of the business owners pitting white and Asian workers against each other. They would also begin forging documents and other actions to get around the restrictions on Chinese immigration.

The Society of Friends of All Faiths, a group aiming for religious tolerance, began working with churches and synagogues and establishing mutual aid in the Mid-Atlantic. In the wake of a Tammany Hall scandal they began working with immigrants, beginning a process replacing the old machine politics of NYC. They endorsed Teddy Roosevelt in the '93 NYC mayoral election, resulting in a progressive and anti-Tammany Hall leadership in the city. They would eventually orient explicitly against unjust hierarchy, radicalizing with a strong anarchist and militant sections of the organization. They would also eventually begin to work with the few muslims and buddhists in the country, becoming the most diverse group of advocacy by religion.

The Orange Disciples, inheritors of the abolitionist and pacifist tradition, also began working with various churches to spread their beliefs and influence. They would eventually get involved in politics, pushing for progressive laws and politicians, their most notable success being women's suffrage in Ohio.

In '92 the American People's Futurist Alliance would come onto the scene, an technocratic and reformist group backed by businessmen. They would endorse politicians and set up their Anti-Machine Committee, which would serve to replace the mainstream party's machines in integrating immigrants into the country. Notably Andrew Carnegie himself would join, using the organization to try to mediate between unions and industrialists.

1892 also saw a massive protest in Chicago against the Homestead Massacre and violence in the south. Walpurga Voight was the only leader of the march who advocated for self defense, and so when the police shot at the protesters, they flocked to her. Her organization the Society for Universal Suffrage ballooned in the aftermath, soon becoming the largest socialist group in the country.

"The Society for Universal Suffrage think they have picked up the dead cause of the Haymarket rioters like valkyries pick up the souls of worthy warriors," the Chicago Daily News claimed in a sensationalist piece. The moniker stuck, with many calling them "the Valkyries".

A depression began the next year, caused by international factors but bungled by President Cleveland.


The Chicago World Fair of 1893 would see an alliance of leftist groups: the Society for Universal Suffrage, Friends of Huddled Masses, Forty Acre Movement, and Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists all came to protest. They would meet with the international revolutionary communities (both socialist and Chinese) as well as the average spectator, setting up their own unofficial exhibits. They would form the United Front in the aftermath (though the FHM and WCUA would only join later), committing to working together for their causes.

The RFAA disavowed Propaganda of the Deed as independent anarchists tried to assassinate capitalist Henry Frisk who had caused the Homestead Massacre. Instead they focused on a program of soup kitchens and other forms of aid to recruit and help the common man survive the depression.

Strikes, protests, and riots plagued the nation during the depression, with wins and losses for all sides. The United Front would call for a general strike, but the American Federation of Labor refused to work with the pro-general strike American Railway Union. So instead Chicago saw a small general strike while the ARU, several miners unions, and a new tailer's union in NYC went on strike independently. The mainstream parties opposed the strikes while the Populists and LLRP supported them. The mayors of Chicago, NYC, and governor of Illinois all refused to let federal troops put an end to the strike, instead negotiating settlements.

As the depression continued most parts of the United Front—plus future members like SFAF—established soup kitchens, mutual aid efforts, and bought out failing businesses, factories, or farms for their own use. Though this wasn't exclusive to the UF, with TOD setting up a job program through churches. On the other hand the APFA set up a fund to keep businesses from collapsing, keeping their influence together while fighting the leftists.

'94 would see several new leftist groups get their start, including two queer rights organizations (which would later merge with SUS); the Minutemen, who would start as a military enthusiast and watchdog group but radicalize into supporting the UF in the south against White Supremacists as a militia; and the Southern People's Alliance, a socialist group for farmers birthed out of the failure of the Populists and Farmers' Alliance.

The leftist and other labor or progressive movements continued to be split. The AFL would grow to include many Californian unions, hostile to the WCUA due to the latters' racial integration. Meanwhile the Bookerites wanted black progress through education and entrepreneurship while the FAM was fighting a miniature war to end segregation and white supremacy.

To challenge this, the UF went national. Governor Waite of Colorado switched from the Populist Party to the Socialist Labor Party, the official political party of the United Front, giving them a presence in the political sphere. Meanwhile the West Coast Union Association renamed to the All-Continental Union Association, spreading across the continent as a true challenger to the AFL. Soon radical unions from the ARU to anarchist NYC to New Orleans unions would join.

In 1895, the Forty Acres Movement had their first major battle with the White League, hundreds of men on both sides fighting it out. Although they had irregular weaponry while the WL was well funded, they solidly beat them back. But this was only the beginning of what was to come. The very next year, the Supreme Court would rule that "separate but equal" was legal, a major blow to reformists and opening up the southern states to further repress African Americans.

1895 also had the FHM's first sponsorship of an attempted Chinese revolution, which failed for now.

1896 saw the SLP become a real third party, winning Colorado, Illinois, and New Orleans (but not Louisiana), with over 1.5 million votes across the country. Their Senators would refuse to sit in protest of Illinois' upper house refusing to seat a socialist senator, boycotting that chamber entirely. The Populists and LLRP remained existent, but only winning on a local level. Republican President McKinley would be elected. TOD and APFA would become major lobby groups, the former majorly increasing the influence of progressive Republicans.

The next few years had the ACUA attempt to peel off unions from the AFL. They also tried to unionize more places, from the steel belt, to eastern miners, to northeastern factory and dock workers, to black belt workers.

The Appalachian Brotherhood was founded in '96, beginning as a vague alliance but in a few years eventually settling as a regional anarchist alliance.

The United Front delegation to the Second International meeting managed to keep them from permanently expelling the anarchists, maintaining the unity of the organization and preventing its takeover by the more moderate social democrats. They would continue to maintain a strong international influence, with groups across the world looking to the American movement.

1897 saw a contentious election in New York City, the first election that the newly united city would have. Republican Teddy Roosevelt, supported by TOD, and SLP Morris Hillquit, supported by the UF including reluctant anarchists, competed for the city. The socialists would win, flexing their muscles. Hillquit would pass strong labor laws and help the RFAA take over the police department, defanging it.

The year also saw the Anti-Trust Act finally being passed, but in an altered form. It wasn't targeted at real trusts but instead at the railway union (if it went on strike) or any of the UF organizations that owned factories. As real trusts grew and cooperated, creating the National Association of Manufacturers and the populist anti-union Nationalist Citizens' Alliance, the public grew disillusioned with the government's ability to positively intervene.

FAM continued to use their limited control of Louisiana's electoral system to prevent suppression. Meanwhile they used the state as a base to fight white supremacists from, increasingly large battles between their Spartacist militia, the SPA's Poor Mans Fighters, and the Minutemen on one side, and the White League and Red Shirts on the other. The Battle of Abbeville was their first major loss, but they did successfully prevent a massacre of the town, and so was sometimes considered the first battle of the Second American Revolution. They won and lost many battles, the balance of power ever shifting.

Their main efforts hadn't stopped, with more and more farms bought out for black farmers. They largely switched crops to hemp as cotton plants died from a major parasite, with SUS textile factories being modified to use it for clothing.

1897 also saw the founding of the Amigos del Pueblo. An anarchist group of mostly Mexicans, they would join the RFAA and work to help the Mexican PLM in their revolutionary efforts.


In 1898, the depression had finally ended. One crisis at its end. After campaigning from the APFA and other jingoist groups, America would begin a war against Spain in 1898.

In a backroom deal with the LLRP, futurist aligned Republicans passed the the Hanna Amendment, a necessity for the pro-war caucus to win while the TOD aligned republicans would vote no regardless. It would give to an independent Cuba a Treaty of Perpetual Friendship and Amity, which would initially aid to rebuild Cuba's economy and a free trade agreement, but would include mechanisms for both countries to change the terms to deepen ties between the countries. It would also demand that for the duration of the war the United States would have no conscription, being limited to a volunteer army.

The SLP would oppose the war on the grounds that the US had previously intervened in a pro-slavery pro-Spanish manner, and had actively prevented military aid from reaching the rebels, and thus their real goal was imperialist, in favor of the American bourgeoisie against American workers and to subordinate the Cuban people's struggle to their extraction of profit. Their Senators sat to filibuster the war declaration, slowing it by months.

The United Front's credit union financed a targeted strike of stevedores, coalminers, and railroad workers to stop the imperial war machine, with demands of immediate peace on the grounds of the independence of Spain's colonies with no annexations or war indemnities.

The public was confused about the strike, many businessmen called it treason, and after a failed negotiation, McKinley used the anti-trust act against the railway unions.

Businesses and unions fought whilst the war was ongoing. Ultimately, Sun Yat-Sen used FHM foreign aid funds to help the Filipino revolutionaries while Spain was distracted with America, resulting in an independent Philippines under President Aguinaldo, which would soon become a liberal republic. America would occupy Manilla's port to use as a naval base and claim the Philippines as a protectorate.

America's naval invasion of Cuba would fail, resulting in a stronger position for the rebels when they won. They would become independent and reject the Hanna Amendment, electing a socialist president with a legislative plurality but not majority, hostile to American business interests but not nationalizing the land or industry. They would remain subject to debt from the colonial government.

Guam and Puerto Rico would become annexed by the United States. The AdP would organize in Puerto Rico, advocating for independence and anarchy.

The railway strike would be crushed by soldiers and AFL scabs, but the coal workers and dock workers would continue until the end of the war, using the Treaty of Paris giving America colonies as proof they were right. The army saw dissent, having volunteered to free Cuba but being used to conquer Puerto Rico and against the railroad workers. More of the army acted as an occupying force in their own country than fought in the war, disgruntled men wanting to resign as they were put to (in their opinion) poor use.

McKinley would also pass a bill annexing Hawaii in 1898 and order the breakup of tribal governments in the Indian Territory. This would prompt the formation of the Committee for Indigenous Advocacy, which would seek to aid the victims of American imperialism.

The LLRP finally won Michigan and North Dakota, setting out their control of a small part of the country. The SLP won California, continuing to expand.

The White League would attack New Orleans during the war, the Spartacists barely holding them off. This was the first major fight over an American city, with no government interference (Louisiana paralyzed by deadlock and McKinley busy with the war). Over in the east the Poor Mans Fighters and Minutemen protected Wilmington from a massacre by the Red Shirts, though they lost the battle and the city government was couped. The WL and RS would merge into the White Union Army, a national and open organization with public members and business supporters from across the south. They included veterans from the army in Cuba.

McKinley could only offer token reforms to both sides, an initiative to hire more black men and a promise to send election observers to satisfy the WL's claims of a rigged election, but neither side would disarm.

Meanwhile the rest of the UF built up militia, arming up for self defense, and starting low scale conflicts with the Nationalist Citizens' Alliance. Many of them, starting with SUS in Chicago, built professional training facilities, which would form an experienced core of soldiers for their militia.

The APFA would create a working class group called the All-American Workers' Alliance. They would oppose the ACUA's industrial unionism, the AFL's One Big Union policy, and the NCA's anti-union policies, advocating for small unions that could negotiate with an employer individually. In the next few years they would fight with the ACUA over national influence, with the AFL being the big loser, gradually having members peel away and few new ones joining them, fading into irrelevance.

The ACUA had committed to continuing their strike from the Spanish-American War into 1899, expanding it into a general strike. Despite their competition for unionizing, the APFA's rising left wing would support them against Congress on the ideological point of being anti-strike breaking. The anarchists and Minutemen would advocate among the army, successfully convincing them to stop breaking the strike and demand to be released from service. Congress partially folded, making a referendum in two years in both annexed territories. But when the referendum came, high amounts of money and large disenfranchisement of non-whites in Puerto Rico meant they both voted to stay as part of the US.

1899 also saw the formation of the American Reform Movement. The LLRP, APFA, New American Patriots (a small nationalist group based in California), and TOD came together to form an alliance of reformist groups. They had troubles from the beginning, with arguments over pacifism and militarism delaying and temporarily splitting the organization, but after a few years became more steady. They would be joined by the CIA, who would also join the UF, the indigenous advocacy group being a mix of reformists and revolutionaries.

This year also saw the beginnings of dual power in the south. The Forty Acres Movement set up a network of aligned towns and villages which would set up their own town governments or take over the existing one, establishing taxes and government services. These would see further cooperation and programs and eventually the Southern People's Alliance would join them in establishing them, working as bases for them across the south. They would also work with TOD to provide education to these often illiterate communities.

Marxism-Voightism was formalized as an ideology for SUS this year, eventually becoming the dominant form of Marxism in the United States. Primarily developed by Walpurga Voight but reviewed by dozens of people within SUS and presented to the organization as a whole before adoption, Marxism-Voightism (sometimes just called Voightism) would serve as a guiding ideology. It used dialectical materialism as described by Marx focused on the intersection of womens', minorities', and the proletariat's intersecting issues, how these divisions were used by those in power to set those with less power against each other, and that the socialist should use a mix of direct action and electoral cover to achieve a socialist revolution.

The Society for Universal Suffrage would also begin to popularize among farmers (which so far had been limited to RFAA outside the south), establishing a major group to voluntarily collectivize and receive modern farming equipment.


The turn of the century saw an escalation of the Boxer Rebellion in China. Sun Yat-Sen began an uprising with support from the Friends of Huddled Masses, starting a complicated sequence of events between the various rebel groups, the Boxers, the Qing Empire, and the invading Alliance of 8 imperial powers. After several years Dr. Sun's rebellion was successful, allying with the Boxers and establishing a republic in China, though it would continue to fight. By the end of 1904 they had reclaimed most of the country and the remaining Qing being a Russian puppet state in Xinjiang, and Mongolia being a Russian Duchy. China defeated the German (and allied) army massacring their people, and was somewhat hostile with Japan, who had just gone to war with Russia over the triply contested Manchuria before then fighting the Chinese Army. Japan would get strong economic concessions in Manchuria, which would remain part of the Republic of China.

In 1900, Congress proposed the Sedition Act. Through efforts of powerful lobby groups such as The Orange Disciples and parties opposing it including the SLP, Populists, and LLRP, they managed to vote down the version including press censorship. But they couldn't prevent the lesser version, which prohibited interference with military operations or recruitment, prevented insubordination within the military, and prevented the support of US enemies during wartime. This would give the national government greater ability to prosecute the progressives and socialists who had opposed their imperialism the last few years, should a similar situation arise.

The 1900 elections saw a stalemate. The SLP won Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota (the LLRP supporting the SLP presidential candidate for the year), Louisana, and California, the Democrats won the south, and the Republicans won the rest, except for 5 Populist western states. The election would go to the house. The SLP would negotiate in good faith, but was rebuffed on all sides. The Republicans, LLRP, and Populists formed a coalition agreement for McKinley to condemn the WUA, force the Democratic governor of Louisiana to accept his loss, give some high level government positions to the LLRP and Populists, and pass the Populist Postal Savings System which would prevent a panic caused by savings being withdrawn from banks.

SLP states began expanding their state militia this year and the next few, anticipating a conflict with the federal government or another civil war with the south.

Hawaii would vote in the Home Rule Party under electoral fusion with the SLP, though their governor was still chosen by the president rather than elected, and so would need veto-proof majorities for all their legislation. They would pass progressive and pro-Hawaiian laws, successfully bypassing him.

The year had the first battles between states and the United Front, Alabama and Louisiana calling up the militia in response to the SLP's growing electoral victories. The Spartacists won the Second Battle of New Orleans in Louisiana and lost the skirmishes in Alabama, allowing the state militia to intimidate black voters, causing the SLP to lose the election. Alabama would soon disenfranchise poor and black voters, making Louisiana the only southern state with the full franchise, and effectively blocking further SLP victories in the south.

Meanwhile the SPA and Minutemen fought the WUA in North Carolina, and SFAF fought the White Union Army in Maryland, officially joining the United Front.

In West Virginia, the Appalachian Brotherhood boycotted the election in Wheeling, the state's largest city. Instead they called upon the city to form anarchist worker and neighborhood councils, forming dual power in the city, now called the Wheeling Commune. The police were driving back the councils and arresting them when a couple hundred radical anarchist militia came in from Pennsylvania, in turn Governor Atkinson called in the national guard, arresting the leadership and destroying the experiment. This resulted in McKinley getting authorized more funding for the military, fears of anarchist uprisings in the northeast spreading.


In 1901 the USA would get treaty rights with Britain giving them the right to build a canal in Central America. But this wouldn't pan out for many years due to internal troubles.

The Northern Securities Company and United States Steel Company formed, the giant trusts controlling vast sections of the country's economy. At President McKinley's intervention, no Anti-Trust Act suit was made against them despite public outcry. The National Association of Manufacturers consisted of them and others to coordinate pro-business actions.

The Republican Speaker made a deal with the SLP, Populists, LLRP, and Christian Socialist Party, forming a fragile coalition in the house and senate to repeal the Anti-Trust Act, pass the Postal Savings System, and pass the Seamen's Welfare Act, the latter at the behest of an ACUA strike.

The Pact to Secure Democracy formed, with 12 southern governors, including the governor of Louisiana who lost his last election and the Republican governor of West Virginia. They claimed large scale voting fraud and terrorist organizations conspired to use force to determine elections and would work together to send state militia across state lines to fight the United Front. President McKinley declared it was the Supreme Court's authority on the legality of such an interstate coalition, not his, therefore ignoring it against public protests. An anarchist spy in the White House reported to the news that he met with Pact leaders and his decision not to crack down on the Pact being worried about the SLP or causing a civil war with Pact states, causing a public outcry against the favoritism of the confederacy's successors.

The ACUA would continue to expand across the country, most notably in the Midwest, Northeast, blackbelt, and into Mexico, expanding in all the areas further in the next few years. They would win a nationwide strike for better conditions in 1901. Then in 1902 the All-American Workers Alliance would cede control and merge into them, the last major obstacle to the One Big Union gone.

In the South, the Forty Acres Movement, Southern People's Alliance, and Minutemen continued to arm up the next few years, making rural and distributed arms and artillery factories to supply what was effectively a war effort as well as continuing to professionalize their militias with medics and engineers. Several northern United Front organizations would send militia to help them as well. They had to fight for control of Louisiana against the previous governor's militia despite winning the election as well as several other battles for control of the south. They found proof that the White Union Army (by now a perpetrator of several massacres) was directly working with the southern states, a blow to their legitimacy. While most fighting was in the South, the United Front also fought against reactionary militia in the rest of the country, slowly batterying them down.

SUS would establish the Workers Planning Council, an experiment in democratic planned management of SUS industries. This would include an agricultural section, which would mainly consist of poor farmers voluntarily forming cooperatives and expanding through buying out other failing small farms. This would serve as the major vehicle for land collectivization outside the south. Secondarily would be anarchist cooperative shops and other programs forming the basis of future farms forming cooperatives.

The Amigos del Pueblo (an interest group of the RFAA) would work with the Mexican Liberal Party to help establish the revolutionaries, building up strength for a future Mexican revolution.

In the aftermath of the failed Wheeling Commune, the Appalachian Brotherhood rose up once again in Pittsburgh in protest of the entirely non-democratic government there. Eventually they backed down, with the hardline Appalachian anarchists splitting from the United Front who officially disavowed and cut support to them.


1902 saw the SLP continue to grow in size, now a major third party in Congress. It also had no majority, forcing the Republicans to make a coalition agreement with the LLRP and the Populists in order to govern.

The SLP would continue enacting their policies as they gained control of more states and cities, gaining support of the workers, the discriminated, and the poor, even outside of ideological socialists.

The SLP and LLRP, with the aid of lobbying groups such as The Orange Disciples, managed to prevent the Chinese Exclusion Act from being renewed, opening the country to immigration with no restrictions from anywhere.

As part of their coalition, the LLRP would demand the government crack down on the Pact to Secure Democracy, supported by massive protests across the country organized by the United Front. The bill would mobilize the army, demand the arrest of offending parties, and declare the WUA a terrorist organization, but it would limit the crackdown to Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi, the three states that had attacked Louisiana. As it would be a limited crackdown, it promised not to call up the draft for the duration of the conflict or the next five years, hoping to soothe worries about a conflict on the scale of the Civil War. Together it was supported by some major Republican figures such as Secretary of War Teddy Roosevelt. The SLP also supported the bill, helping it get past despite many Republicans and all Democrats opposing it.

Half the army refused to mobilize, instead gathering in the south under Pact leadership, calling Congress' move illegal and the government illegitimate. They, alongside most southern state militia, began forming an opposition government still claiming to be the United States—unlike in the first civil war, successionism was not a major goal.

Furthermore SLP states would refuse to federalize their militia, preferring them under their own control. They would also expand them, recruiting in preparation of a conflict. Michigan under the control of the LLRP would reform a new militia after the old one was federalized, establishing a loyal base of power for them, and the APFA would begin training a militia of their own, giving ARM a substantial powerbase in the eastern Midwest.

The UF would continue sending large amounts of resources and militia into the south to help the locals fight and rebel against the Southern Government even as the Federal Government's army took Arkansas by force. They would stop just past the state lines to consolidate their gains.

The Pact would use their army to try to invade Washington D.C. but would fail to cross the river due to a valiant defense by state militia. Still, Congress was forced to move to Philadelphia, which would remain the northern capital for the rest of the war. West Virginia would leave the Pact, but otherwise the Pact would stand together, and a second civil war truly began. Richmond became a new capital for an identical government with the exception it had only southern representation. Since the North had decided not to use conscription, there was substantial hope they could outmobilize them and win a short war, before they could change their minds.

In the South, the ACUA's Army of the Toilers, TFAM's Spartacists, and SPA's Poor Man's Fighters would form an armed resistance against the Southern Government. They would rise up in rebellion with control of around half the south's cities by the unions and many rural towns and villages, already connected through an existing federal structure, joining together to make a new revolutionary government.

Meanwhile in the North, the National Association of Manufacturers demanded an hours increase and wage decrease. In response, the unions declared a strike with armed guards and a nationwide protest campaign assisted by their allies. In particular the RFAA attacked their media supporters, physically sabotaging or destroying printing presses with bombs, leaving the United Front newspapers as the biggest ones left.

The ACUA took control of the arms factories and offered to sell them to the government, to ensure the war effort could continue, but it never ended up happening.

Fighting continued on both the western and eastern fronts, Washington D.C. being fought over several times. But with the unrest in the north, parts of the army were sent to arrest the criminal anarchists and make a deal with the unions. The latter was ongoing poorly, with the unions demanding ownership of the factories, a prospect the federal government was reluctant to accept, when the Minutemen-made networks that had grown the past few years to oppose the army being used on civilians made large chunks of it defect. This would be a pattern for the rest of the war, the Minutemen having fully infiltrated the army.

Soon the strikers, militia, and defected soldiers were defending themselves and the to-be-arrested anarchists against the rest of the army and cops. In the Northeast they slowly lost, being pushed to the bastion of New York and fleeing to rural areas. Meanwhile the Midwest and Western SLP-controlled states declared a new Provisional Government. They would be joined by the LLRP's states and the APFA's militia, who opposed the latest crackdown by the federal government, thus securing the majority of the Midwest for the revolutionaries. Hawaii would declare independence, allied with the revolutionaries.

The details of the multi-sided civil war do not matter so much as the outcome. The revolutionaries, scattered in chunks from the west coast and some rocky mountain states, the Midwest, the South, Appalachia, and the Northeast united on deciding to form one Revolutionary Provisional Government, but for practical reasons stuck with local rule until then. The Revolutionary Army in the West went east to the mountains and Great Plains, mostly winning battles against the low population interior with the aid of CIA (committee for indigenous advocacy)-armed indigenous tribes. The Midwestern Revolutionary Army would first go east, defeating the federal army in some close battles, and freeing up the northeastern revolutionaries. They would go south from there along the east coast. They would also send troops south along the Mississippi to attack the federal government's western forces.

The Revolutionary Army in the south would slowly lose against the Southern Government and Federal Government attacking it on all sides, but would survive long enough to be reinforced. The entire country was taken by the time it was halfway through 1903. The Southern Government's armies that refused to surrender would become the Gray Army, a partisan force numbering tens of thousands across the South that would continue to fight the socialists.

Meanwhile, the last few years the Amigos del Pueblo, a hispanic anarchist group part of the RFAA, had been funding and arming the Mexican Liberal Party, particularly the anarcho-communist Magonista faction. The ACUA had also been expanding there, unionizing much of the country's burgeoning workforce. Just as America's revolutionary war came to a close, they called for a general strike caught up in revolutionary fervor. The Americans sent material aid and non-government volunteer groups (mostly Mexican-Americans and trade unionists), and it would soon be seen if this was the start of the Mexican Revolution.

If it was, it would be joining the other revolutionary countries now here: the North American Commonwealth, the successor to America; Hawaii, a statist socialist and indigenous controlled republic; Puerto Rico, a somewhat anarchist group just deciding on their new political system; Cuba, a primarily Marxist but somewhat syndicalist republic; the Philippines, an anti-imperialist liberal democracy; and China, an anti-imperialist federal republic.

The year is 1904, and the North American Commonwealth is about to elect its first Congress. Several revolutionary organizations, and non-revolutionaries swept up into the tides of change, have made their mark on America and helped forge it into something new.

In this riot quest you play as a mass-political organization. This may be a political party or other political group that may or may not support another political party.

This quest involves both controlling your organizations to do things on-the-ground as well as using your influence in political parties to control the nation.

Forming a new organization:

[] Name of group

-[] Circumstance of founding

This can be a short sentence or paragraph, basically just how and why it exists.

-[] Locale

Where the core base of your support is. Ex. New England.

-[] Core supporters

Ex. Miners, factory workers, railroad workers, farmers, soldiers, intellectuals, small business owners, engineers, statisticians, feminists, pacifists, etc. Can choose multiple.

-[] Ideology

Ex. Progressivism, anarcho-communism, marxism, etc.

-[] Supporting party

What political party your political organization supports and exerts influence in. This is an optional plank.

-[] Faction name and description

To be added onto another organization, not in the very first organization vote proposal, a faction is a way to have alternate ideas within a single organization. This is a good way to have more ideologies/goals without going over the 15 organization limit.


Future turns:

There are three main types of turns. The first is a general planning stage. Every group will have a plan vote where within that group they compete for what they will be doing this turn. Write-ins are allowed.

The second is the legislative plan turn. Every group will vote on which policies they want passed this year.

Third vote is just straight up voting for a group. This will affect their gain in popularity this turn. You can also add a faction sub-vote to make a new faction or increase the popularity of an old one. This vote starts after the second vote but applies to the next update, so I can write this update before it finishes.


While I write each update, you may vote for which organization you would like to see grow. You can vote for up to two organizations. This is also a good time to form a new organization, if you wish (max 15 orgs). Any new organization must get at least 3 votes. Any organization with fewer than 3 votes will be disbanded and I will not write their actions next turn, but if they get 3 votes in a future turn and haven't been replaced yet then they are remade and don't lose anything they had before (IC just being less active for a few years).

There are a few orgs (the LLRP, TOD, MIN) that didn't have plans this turn, any new organization that gets more votes than them here can be created now.

[] All-Continental Union Association

[] The Land and Labor Reform Party

[] The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists

[] The Forty Acres Movement

[] The Society of Friends of All Faiths

[] American People's Futurist Alliance

[] The Friends of the Huddled Masses

[] The Orange Disciples

[] The New American Patriots

[] The Society for Universal Suffrage

[] The Minutemen

[] Southern People's Alliance

[] Appalachian Brotherhood

[] Amigos del Pueblo (Friends of the People)

[] Committee for Indigenous Advocacy