What event was the closest America came to total collapse?

Are you stupid? Other then civil war and early us this is the most unstable it's ever been

>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 Veeky Forums.

>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?

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

How the fuck

Siege of Gibraltar

Other than the civil war I would say during the articles of confederation era

That's a lefty meme, it never actually happened.

Gibraltar?
Either I'm just ignorant or you're making a connection I don't understand

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Gibraltar

do you know how fucked up the united states was before the civil war

>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

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.

The revolutionary war, and that was pretty much a a guaranteed win

The Civil War, when it actually did collapse.

Now. We're slowly rolling towards inevitable national insolvency.

War of 1812

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?

>baby's first election

Every fucking time.

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.

Remember when Bush Jr. winning again was the literal end of the world?
Good times.

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?

Probably the Great Depression.

I give FDR credit for reforming the system and staving off a communist revolt.

>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