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Empire Gained
North America arguably suffered least from the Consolidation Wars, at least in terms of raw casualties. The USA merely intervened in the Canadian civil war, shifting from peacekeepers to occupiers slowly enough to not provoke a revolt. Taking over the Caribbean did require a more vigorous divide-and-conquer method, but the population of the islands was too dispersed and easily isolated to put up an effective resistance. Mexico and Central America voluntarily sought annexation, because the alternative was West European kinetic energy weapons strikes from orbit. Taking full control of the North American continent went fairly smoothly.
The only drawback was that the United States of North America descended into imperial despotism for over a decade. The Constitution was thoroughly revised, creating a hyper-powerful executive at the cost of virtually everybody else. Complaining about the government was still permitted; citizens could even mock President Trevor Castaigne Lewis publicly. Actually trying to change the government got dissidents of all stripes and causes first casually detained, then sent to the colony worlds. Transportees went to Jefferson if they were lucky, and Bolivar if they were not. Very unlucky transportees supposedly went to the other two colony worlds, but that could not always be… confirmed.
There were three main revolts against the USNA during the Consolidation Wars. Canada’s low-key guerrilla campaign went on for the longest, eventually resulting in forty-five percent of the population being transported to Jefferson. Cuba’s outright insurrection in 2091 was largely handed over to National Guard units from the formerly-Mexican Expanded States, who used the war to demonstrate their loyalty to the new regime. It was claimed later that hispanic units were better suited than anglo ones to pacify the island without undue bloodshed. That claim is still being argued, even after the return of democratic norms in the USNA.
Finally, there was the Miskatonic Free State rebellion of 2095. That conflict was remarkable in its suddenness, and ferocity on both sides. It took a year of fighting before the Lewis regime finally resorted to their own KEW strikes, and by then most of the world simply wondered why the USNA waited that long.
