What event was the closest America came to total collapse?
This one. Right here, right now.
The civil war...
>>1099114
Either the '76 Long Island battle or the Great Depression. Nothing else seems worth mentioning.
>>1099114
You are witnessing it now.
>>1099114
The Civil War?
When the whole thing actually DID collapse?
>>1099114
Winter/Spring of 1863.
>>1099114
Your country being launched into a civil was IS collapse.
What matters is what happens afterwards.
>>1099236
>OOOOOH I DO NOT LIKE THE OTHER GUY IN MUH ELECTIONS
>CLOSE TO COLLAPSE
>His elections doesn't even involve armed ambushes or his country splitting into coups or something.
First Worlders I fucking swear.
Also still not /his/.
>>1099236
>Civil Rights Protests
>Vietnam War Protests
>Fear over the Cold War
>Labor being fucked by Big Biz during Gilded Age
>Great Depression
>etc.
Surely right now is the most unstable time in American history
Why are you here if you know almost nothing about history?
>>1099236
forget about the 20s and 30s? corporate america asked the commandant of the marine corps to overthrow the president.
>lol....it was smedley butler.
The crash of 1987
>>1099236
How the fuck
>>1099114
Siege of Gibraltar
Other than the civil war I would say during the articles of confederation era
>>1099261
That's a lefty meme, it never actually happened.
>>1099283
Gibraltar?
Either I'm just ignorant or you're making a connection I don't understand
>>1099449
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Gibraltar
>>1099236
>>1099236
>>1099236
do you know how fucked up the united states was before the civil war
>>1099236
>Butthurt over two populist candidates on social media
>Comparable to a war launched following decades of internal strife, guerrilla warfare via radical abolitionists/slavers killing each other in the West and along Border States.
wew
>>1099695
Oh and there were several instances where Congressmen brandished weapons and threatened to kill each other if a law they liked didn't pass. The country was wracked by tension that's seen few parallels since.
>>1099114
The revolutionary war, and that was pretty much a a guaranteed win
>>1099114
The Civil War, when it actually did collapse.
>>1099114
Now. We're slowly rolling towards inevitable national insolvency.
>>1099114
War of 1812
>>1099745
this.
>5 invasions into Canada end in complete humiliation
>trade throughout the whole country shut down by blockade
>Washington dc burnt to the ground
>government near bankruptcy and defaults on national debt
>new england meeting to organize secession in the Hartford Convention
were it not for the surprising successes of the Navy and Andrew Jacksons victory in new orleans repuplican morale would have remained totally gutted and the union could have easily dissolved
Does the Cuban missile crisis count?
>>1099236
>baby's first election
Every fucking time.
>>1099236
Remember that time the Democratic Party of Louisiana hired panamanian mercenaries with machine guns to seize the voter rolls?
I always wonder if mccarthyism had really caught fire how deep that could have gone. Given that the black movements of the time were influenced by communism (and largely remain so) it could have really escalated into not just an anti-communist 'pogrom' but a racial conflict.
>>1099920
Remember when Bush Jr. winning again was the literal end of the world?
Good times.
>>1099712
except for the fact that it took almost a decade and the Brits didn't even take it seriously until it was already too late.
Does anybody doubt that had Britain actually wanted it could have kept the 13 colonies?
>>1099114
Probably the Great Depression.
I give FDR credit for reforming the system and staving off a communist revolt.
>>1099258
>Labor being fucked by Big Biz during Gilded Age
desu, the United States are living a second Gilded Age were labor is being fucked by Big Biz
