Before we begin our journey to beautiful, booming America, we need to ask if you are
[[A Man]]
or
[[A Woman]]Good luck! You’ll need it lmao. My advice, pick the Midwest
Welcome to the United States! Where do you want to live?
[[The North]]
[[The Midwest]]
[[The South]]The North is full of big city life and commerce potential! The hustle and bustle of daily life and foreign market society is awaiting you. The greatest and top elite reside here, each paving their way with hard work and dedication. To be like them, you need a job! What occupation are you going to take up?
[[Market Trader]]The Midwest is fresh off the press thanks to the Louisiana Purchase and new towns are booming in population. To accommodate for the influx of immigrants, manufacturing companies have put factories across the land. Which one are you planning to work at?
[[Warehouse]]
or
[[Textile Industry]] In the South, there are certain occupations for certain people. What is your ethnicity?
[[European Descent]]
or
[[African Descent]]You have just moved to the big city of New York! The center of finance and small-scale manufacturing! You are surprised by the diversity of people here from Germans, to Irish, and even the Jewish! (they’re definitely not equal though…) Anyways, you find yourself day by day help ship imports, and unload the exports. You see the Erie canal everyday and watch as steamboats pass by. You know, it smells kind of bad here. Do you want to
[[Stay]]
or
[[Leave]]You deal with the smell and work hard. This earns you multiple promotions. You find yourself moving up to the middle class. You buy yourself a house and find a nice educated women. You get married with her and have a couple of children.
[[Cool]]You find yourself tired of working by the sea and get sick of the smell. You can’t adjust to the hustle and bustle of the city life, so you decide to quit your job.
Just before you leave, you meet a woman named Angelica! You guys hit it off a little bit too well and now you have a kid! Now you spend the rest of your days in the city you wanted to leave with a new family. You work yourself up to middle class until there wait! There’s a fire! The 1835 Great Fire of New York had just hit! Do you escape New York with your family or remain in New York?
[[Escape]]
or
[[Remain]]You work yourself up to middle class until there wait! There’s a fire! The 1835 Great Fire of New York had just hit! Do you leave New York with your family or wait around in New York?
[[Flee]]
or
[[Wait]]You decide to stay in New York, hoping the city would be able to recover itself, but it doesn’t. In fact more fires come along. You and your family are never able to recover and die of yellow fever. Sorry :(You leave New York with your Family and find yourself moving to Boston where you again find yourself becoming a Market Trader. Congrats on living your medeocre life to the fullest extent!You leave New York with your Family and find yourself moving to Boston where you again find yourself becoming a Market Trader. Congrats on living your medeocre life to the fullest extent!You decide to stay in New York, hoping the city would be able to recover itself, but it doesn’t. In fact more fires come along. You and your family are never able to recover and die of yellow fever. Sorry :(You’ve been working for a few years now and after countless hours of labor, luck is on your side. Samuel W. Collins has created a machine to make hot metal into forms. Production for metal tools and goods has never been easier. However, wages are still tough on you and your fellow workers. Do you find other work or keep working?
[[Find other Work]]
or
[[Keep Working]]You’ve been working for a few years now and after countless hours of labor, luck is on your side. Mechanics in the Textile Industry like Richard Garsed have been pushing out standardized parts for weaving looms and spinning jennies that practically doubled their speed and were able to allow many complex fabric patterns to be easily machine-woven. Production for textile goods has never been easier. However, wages are still tough on you and your fellow workers. Do you leave or keep working?
[[Keep Working]]
or
[[Find other Work]]You begin to lose focus of your life without a job and alcohol has been consuming you rather than you consuming it. As you lay in a state of despair in your small house, a knock at your door calls you forward. It’s an Evangelist! He asks you to join them in a group confession on Sunday. How do you answer?
[[Say you will join]]
or
[[Kindly refuse]]Work is restless and the boss is still hard on you and the other workers. Talks of worker groups that fought for benefits were becoming more popular among your friends. Unions, they called them. They asked if you’re going to join their worker union to fight for better hours. How do you answer?
[[Sign me up]]
or
[[No thanks]]You come into your local church on Sunday and feel immediately welcomed. The evangelist that was at your door welcomes you and the members embraced your presence. Your alcoholism is turning for the better and you believe in a brighter future. There is a god and he helps you believe life is good. YOU WIN.
You spiral fully into madness as your alcohol addiction takes over your life. Life no longer matters to you. You die of alcohol poisoning and are never remembered. GAME OVER.The fight for your rights is on. Your boss and bosses of other factories are unwilling to let you in on their profit and are adamant about keeping work hours long. In the end, the union succeeds! Hours have been shortened and you celebrate with other union members. Huzzah! YOU WIN.
You sit by the sidelines and watch the other workers fight for better conditions. Ultimately, they win and have received better hours for themselves and you. You thank them for their generosity and celebrate their victory with them. Huzzah! YOU WIN. Congratulations! You’re going to be just fine! Are you interested in owning a cotton plantation?
[[Yes]]
or
[[No]]You have been captured! You spend the rest of your life working on a cotton plantation. You die of cholera. GAME OVER.The South’s plantations supply most of the world’s cotton due to the region’s fertile land and the invention of the cotton gin. Thanks to Eli Whitney’s invention, cotton processing became much more efficient and helped your business! Well you can’t work these machines yourself and most workers have been demanding high wages but you “can’t afford” their demands. From what you’ve heard, slaves are a cheap source of labor. Are you going to own slaves?
[[I'm down]]
or
[[I'm good]]You’re poor and live off of the bare minimum, yet choose to spend it on alcohol! GAME OVER.You save money by using slaves to work the plantations. You become richer and eventually become a part of society’s top 1%. YOU WIN.You decide to give in to the demands of your workers and give them high wages. Your economic status stays the same and the rest of your life can only be described as mediocre. GAME OVER.A valiant stroke of fate, I say. You have rights, fortunately.
Congratulations! You have made it into the United States! Where do you want to live?
[[The North]]
[[The Midwest]]
[[The South]]