How would America and the world have been better or worse if the South had been allowed to secede?

Answer 1

The Soviets would've reached the Atlantic Coast and began their world wide domination.....

Answer 2

The North not being able to pick on the South would have turned it attention to Canada causing a war with that country. The South would have to back up the North and would send slaves as troops. Canada would lose and would be taken in as a part of the North. The South being worried about the greater size of the North would then find a way to war with Mexico. The North would have to back up the South and Mexico would lose and would become a part of the South. The South would send slave warriors to occupy Mexico and make it more Southern. The West at this point would be won and would decide to secede since the South had previously been able to do it. It would be the W.S.A.

Answer 3

From the perspective of a non-American, one imagines that the rest of the Americas would have been a whole deal less under the economic and political hegemony of the United States, if necessary by the Latin Americans (say) playing off the Anglo-Americans against each other. Canada has been an insufficient, and not particularly interested counterweight to the U.S. The C.S.A. might have been more so.
Chattel slavery was already in its death throes by 1860, but may well have survived longer in that form before tranforming itself into other forms (wage slavery, say) as it did anyway. The South's apologia for its "Peculiar Institution" was that it was a more humane for of slavery than that practised in New York sweatshops. Whether or not you buy that line, some form of racial divide is likely to have survived in the South at least as long as it did (has).
The impact on the rest of the world of two separate nations would have, for good and for ill, been much diminished, methinks. American interevntion during WW1 would have meant both U.S.A. and C.S.A. coming in on the same side pretty much together. Not an unlikely scenario. On the other hand, many now consider the U.S. involvement in that war possibly less than fortunate (Woodrow Wilson himself regretted the decision even as he was making it), as it left the world with no non-belligerent nation of similar weight to act as peace broker. Whether the separate USA and/or CSA would have had the weight to broker a peace is hard to say.
Less easy to figure out is their likely reaction to Japan's efforts to join the Colonisers' Club. But then the colonising activities of the U.S. and C.S. separately might not have been as great as the U.S.A historically; though their anti-colony attitude towards other imperial powers might have been equally diminished. So it seem likely that the Imperial nations of Europe (including Russia and Turkey) would have retained their colonies much longer than they did. It's hard to imagine very many citizens of the former colonies finding much pleasure in that thought. But that's not to give credit for U.S. influence in this matter (though it was considerable). I don't think the U.S. had any specially altruistic motives in their anti-colonial stance (I reckon U.S. businessmen were looking to grab for themselves a hefty slice of some seriously lucrative action). Remember, most of the international volunteers who fought for South American independence in Simon Bolivar's armies were, yep, British.
Were the Brits ever interested in regaining the lost 13 colonies? Harry Harrison notwithstanding, the evidence is against Britain having ever had the slightest interest in recovering the 13 colonies.
Interesting question: one can have a ball tossing ideas about. Check out Harry Turtledove's fantasies along these lines...

Answer 4

You can't really answer hypotheticals like that. History is chaotic, there are too many variables and only God knows what would have happened. Some people think slavery would still be legal, others think the south would have outlawed slavery anyway. God knows. Some people think Europe would have invaded America again, and conquered the States one by one. Others disagree. God only knows what would have happened. I'm not God.

Answer 5

I'd need a passport to go to Disney World.