If the U.S never had slavery.... (economy, federal government, federal)
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Foreign immigrants (Irish, Scottish?) working cotton plantations instead of slaves. A lack of slavery does not mean the demand for tobacco, cotton, spices, sugar cane, etc. decreases. Or perhaps the US South would never have been widely settled, in favor of European nations sending slaves to Eygpt, India, or other cotton producing nations that competed with the US.
Of course, with poor European immigrants replacing slaves in this theoretical world, we would still develop a strikingly similar scenario that lead up to the Civil War. The North would still be industrialized and the South would still be agrarian, and tariffs, taxes, regulations, plus just straight cultural differences would still be the center of debate and possibily war. In place of race, religious differences in the South would probably be the segregator.
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