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This Mighty Scourge of War: A Reconstruction-Era Quest

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[x] Plan: Balancing progress and placation

This plan's a wee bit behind, but I really would like to grab both the immigration wave and railroad nationalization. As others have mentioned, state-level corruption over the control of railroads and railroad funds was a big problem for OTL Reconstruction.
 
[X] Plan: Coorperative Balancing
-[X]Expand the labor pool by loosening restrictions on immigration.
-[X] Strengthen trade ties with Latin America to compensate for the loss of trade with Europe.
-[X] Encourage consumer cooperatives and farmers' associations in order to reduce prices.

@Kirook
I have a question. Is there a hard set endpoint to this quest? Because I think we've gone beyond just Reconstruction by now.
 
[X] Plan: Coorperative Balancing

I read this awesome update, look at the voting options, and the exact one I want is winning. feels good.

[X] Plan: Balancing progress and placation

Not adverse to this one though, railway monopolies suck. We have approval voting, right?
 
If you would like to melt down the economy completely via inflation, please vote for plans with greenbacks. Money printer go brrrr works fine a century from now, but just jamming inflationary measures into an already screwed economy is going to have effects we don't want.
 
Silvis said:
[X] Plan: Coorperative Balancing
-[X]Expand the labor pool by loosening restrictions on immigration.
-[X] Strengthen trade ties with Latin America to compensate for the loss of trade with Europe.
-[X] Encourage consumer cooperatives and farmers' associations in order to reduce prices.

@Kirook
I have a question. Is there a hard set endpoint to this quest? Because I think we've gone beyond just Reconstruction by now.
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If you're talking about scope, there will always be things the government has to deal with that go beyond the specific boundaries of reconstructing the South because this is an important time in the history of America and the world for many reasons. If you're talking about time, you definitely have not gone "beyond Reconstruction" in mid-1867.

But to answer your question more specifically, the quest will end when Reconstruction ends, i.e. when Northern troops completely withdraw from the South and the Southern states are allowed to participate in the Union unsupervised. How long it will be before that happens, and what state the South will be in when it does, is up to you. (Although I will note that I would be quite surprised if the quest were not over before 1880.)

Shadowhisker said:
Holy shit did we spark a revolution in Britain by complete accident?
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You've sparked unrest in Britain, and that was at least as much the British aristocracy's doing as yours. Whether that will actually lead to anything more is as yet undetermined.
 
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Kirook said:
But to answer your question more specifically, the quest will end when Reconstruction ends, i.e. when Northern troops completely withdraw from the South and the Southern states are allowed to participate in the Union unsupervised. How long it will be before that happens, and what state the South will be in when it does, is up to you. (Although I will note that I would be quite surprised if the quest were not over before 1880.)
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This was what I was asking. Thank you for the answer.

And now I'm debating the merits of prolonging reconstruction so that we get to go through the really interesting parts of the 20th century.
 
[X] Plan American Corporatism
[x] Plan: Balancing progress and placation

The leading plan is a neat choice but I think my third choice. I'm worried it has too many gentle long-term options and not enough short term gain, at a time when we're facing serious crunch.
 
Teen Spirit said:
I should note we all feared the last vote would lead to an immediate war and that hasn't happened.
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Besides the fact that they literally started mobilizing their reserves before the unrest started, the concern was more about a cooling of relations causing a disruptive economic crisis, not about immediately starting a war. And considering that we are currently in an economic crisis as a partial result of our actions towards the British, I'd say the concern was justified.
 
Oh crumbs, economics. Uhhhhhhh. Well, anytime I see a chance of strengthening business interests, I like to do a heel-face turn and immediately start sprinting. I say lean into being the change we want to see in the world. Sentiment is spreading, as is unrest both from our example and the gross absurd incompetence of the ruling class across the world. I say we build up a Fortress America built on radicalism, an iron-clad labor movement, and vicious hatred of business interests. The robber barons have seen with their own empty eyes how we deal with reactionary treason. Let them fucking try.
And here I thought I'd join the moderates, oh well.

[X] Plan A Radical America
-[X] Begin nationalization of major railroads.
-[X] Expand the labor pool by allowing the hiring of Native American workers.
-[X] Encourage consumer cooperatives and farmers' associations in order to reduce prices.
 
Kirook said:
But to answer your question more specifically, the quest will end when Reconstruction ends, i.e. when Northern troops completely withdraw from the South and the Southern states are allowed to participate in the Union unsupervised. How long it will be before that happens, and what state the South will be in when it does, is up to you.
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I hope if Outside American Events cause a completely Different World Scene/Political Scene due to butterflies there'd be a seperate quest moving onward. Especially if this changes Americas Alliances/Relations with the 1900s-1910s coming up
 
Kirook said:
But to answer your question more specifically, the quest will end when Reconstruction ends, i.e. when Northern troops completely withdraw from the South and the Southern states are allowed to participate in the Union unsupervised. How long it will be before that happens, and what state the South will be in when it does, is up to you. (Although I will note that I would be quite surprised if the quest were not over before 1880.)
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I hope we get an epilog covering the rest of the 19th and the 20th centuries.

Also I really hope things in Latin America go well, the USA's treatment of what in a better world would be sister republics is America's third biggest crime, after slavery and American Indians.
 
Andrensath said:
These plans are both the same as the already proposed "co-operatives and nationalisation", btw.
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Ah, then as a edit to my last vote for simplicities sake:

[x] Plan Co-ops and nationalisation
[x] -[X] Begin nationalization of major railroads.
[x] -[X] Strengthen trade ties with Latin America to compensate for the loss of trade with Europe.
[x] -[X] Encourage consumer cooperatives and farmers' associations in order to reduce prices.
 
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