The main PODs in O Cascadia are: * The USA and British Canada could not reach a consensus about the Oregon Country and eventually it became an independent country. * The USA won a Pyrrhic victory in the Mexican-American War and, as a result, the Southwest became a contested zone between the USA and Mexico; the cause of many skirmishes. * Polk was not as good of a President as he was in OTL, and even though he got Texas, New Mexico, and California, he failed to hold on to them very well, due to the high amount of casualties in the Mexican-American War. * Stephen Douglas is elected President in the 1860 elections and prevents the Civil War from happening. The 1860 Compromise is made, allowing all states to have slavery, while allowing all non-slavery states the right to peacefu