1805

The American Navy sees its first deep water Atlantic victory when a squadron of American ships met a Franco-Spanish fleet sent to reinforce the West Indies. Though outnumbered, the American ship engineering allowed for the Americans to prolong the battle until the Royal Navy joined them, turning the battle into a decisive Anglo-American victory.
  After which, France abandons all efforts in the New World. This battle also cuts Napoleon’s fleet significantly, allowing for an easier British victory in Trafalgar. The threat of a French invasion of Britain is then drastically reduced, allowing the Royal Navy to assert control on the surrounding seas. America has more mixed results against Spanish ships in the Caribbean, but is able to garner a larger number ships-of-the-line, thus creating a more powerful American Navy. For his efforts, Commodore Stephen Decatur, the American commander, is promoted to Admiral and given a large amount of decoration.
  The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified on the barest possible margins, granting the right to vote and hold office to all born free men, removing the land ownership clause and extending the right to outside the white race. The stipulation is agreed upon that both parents must have been born free as well. Outrage in the southern states increases, and look to the new gains in Florida to expand the slave trade.
  The American control to the port of New Orleans, coupled with the expansion of national infrastructure, the American economy increases.
  Pro-French aggressors from Lower Canada increases in New York and Boston, causing tension between Americans and French Canadians.
  Radical Libertarians and Republicans join into an anti-monarchy caucus, but sees them ineffective as they argue over the issue of slavery. Federalists reform their party position, with moderates from the Libertarians, and form the Unionist Party. Their new position is to extend the economy of America, maintain a strong military, and extend American foreign prestige. While slavery in contested within the party, and many see it as a moral evil, the main party leadership lean towards it being an economic one. Republicans become increasingly defined on their pro-slavery stance or defense of slavery as an institution as most other issues take a secondary position among the support base. Libertarians become the party of radical abolitionists, but the role of the federal government and regulations remain debated.
  Elbridge Gerry wins election as Chancellor as John Marshall wishes to retire.