America

Origins and formation

The United States is a federal republic of 50 states and a capital district, Washington. The contiguous states border Canada and Mexico, with Alaska and Hawaii beyond that block. The history page begins further back, with Paleo-Indian migration from North Asia. A civilization entry set in the age of the republic is already a selection. It is not the whole of the continent’s past, and it is not one presidency.¹

Defining periods

Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president, from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the country through the Civil War, and the biography credits him with a major role in the abolition of slavery. He was born on 12 February 1809 in Kentucky, trained himself, practiced law, and reached a national audience in the 1858 debates with Stephen Douglas before winning the 1860 election. Those dates are one life inside the republic. They are not the founding, and they are not the later industrial state the published Civilization VII America essay also has to hold.^{1 2}

Leaders

The Leader Pass Great Negotiators Pack includes Abraham Lincoln of the United States. The console announcement repeats that name among the twelve new leaders. The New Frontier Pass page, in Chinese, says that when you lead America, Rough Rider Teddy keeps the peace on his home continent. That persona pack is for owners of the pass. The pages therefore name two American faces: Lincoln, and a Roosevelt persona. They do not, in the text retrieved here, print the launch Roosevelt’s separate title. This essay does not invent it.^{3 4 5}

A negotiator pack and a persona pack are two products. Lincoln’s presidency is a war and an emancipation. The Rough Rider label points at a later Roosevelt and a public image of cavalry. Putting both on America is a roster decision. It does not make them contemporaries.^{2 4}

Legacy and interpretation

The published Civilization VII America essay is the republic of the Declaration, the convention, and later images such as the 1803 purchase. Lincoln belongs in the Civil War generation of that story. He is not the first president. The Rough Rider persona is later still. This Civ6 page is the place where those two official names sit together, with the civilization’s own sales pack left unconfirmed.^{1 2}

A closer look

The Chinese Frontier page describes the Rough Rider persona as good at peace on his own continent, and it describes a French persona in the same sentence. The pairing is a marketing bundle of two persona packs. It is not a historical alliance between Lincoln and a French queen. Yields stay on that page.⁴

In Civilization VI

America’s civilization pack stays unconfirmed. Lincoln is Leader Pass. Rough Rider Teddy is New Frontier Pass. The published Civilization VII essay is the counterpart. Keep the republic, Lincoln’s term of 1861 to 1865, and the later Rough Rider image on separate lines.^{2 3 4}