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In the spring of 1862, [[New Netherland]], [[South Tussenland]], and [[United Kingdom|Britain]] were started to apply diplomatic pressure to the French, hopefully to deescalate the situation. South Tussenland, a Zoekerist theocracy at the time, recognized the independence of Saint-Domingue and sent aid to the rebels; this started a wave of independent nations of the Americas recognizing the nation as independent. Throughout the next several months the French offensive stalled and the rebels began to decimate French forces. After eighteen months of rebellion, the French government recognized the independence of Saint Domingue on the 9th of October, 1862.
==== Saint-Domingue in the late 19th century ====
After independence the republic enjoyed a favorable economic and political climate receiving official recognition from all independent nations of the Americas (besides New France who refused to recognize the nation until 1883 when the New French government adopted a new constitution) as well as European nations. The island received high levels of foreign investment and it's agricultural economy flourished providing both Europe and the Americas will Coffee & Sugarcane (a side effect of which was the continuation of unsustainable & environmentally harmful farming practices inherited from French rule). in 1873 spurred on by the communard revolution in European France, a contingent of black communard rebels rose up in the northeast of Saint-Domingue petitioning for further land redistribution- the rebels alluded federal authorities for months but were finally subdued with the assistance of the Royal British Marines who the federal government controversially called in. During and after the communard wars, thousands of French dissents and anti-revolutionaries immigrated to Saint-Domingue, many of which later became important figures in Saint-Domingue politics. Internally this period was characterized by careful political negotiation between the three major racial groups of the nation (Black Saint-Dominguese, White Saint-Dominguese & Mixed race Saint-Dominguese) as well as increased foreign investment and immigration.
===== The Disaster of 1925 =====
In the midst of the European Economic Crisis of 1922 to 1928, in which the republic suffered greatly due to their reliance on foreign markets and close ties to global banking, tragedy struck the already suffering nation. Decades upon decades of environmentally harmful farming practices led to drastic soil erosion, nutrient loss and acidification in turn leading to a near total collapse of the agricultural industries that were a lifeblood of the nation. At the time the nation didn't produce enough food domestically to meet demand and as demand & supply of cash crops crashed poverty, hunger & homelessness gripped the nation. Between 1925 & 1931 over 100,000 Dominguese died or fled due to the crisis. Politically the island was devastated with major riots & strikes becoming a near daily occurrence. The federal government started to rely on para-military and criminal organizations to keep strikers in line and to preserve order during this period. Many of these groups in turn started to weld and oversized influence on the political system of the nation.
===== The Mobster era & the Sanchini crime family =====
In 1930 former Port-au-Prince mayor and known mobster-associate Martin Dupuy won the election for presidency on a platform of economic welfare and rebuilding after thee preceding crisis. Quickly afterwards, corruption in the Saint-Dominguese government reached astronomical levels with mobsters (most notable were the Venetian Sanchini crime family who established themselves within the political machines of the country in the previous decades) operating with near impunity. The economy of the nation recovered substantially in the 1930s but the average quality of life and wealth of Saint-Dominguese did not with social services, government reserves and even the military itself looted by mobsters. In 1937 after the joint Mexican-New Netherlander invasion of the Cuban dictator Sebastián Pareja, supporters of the old regime (and fellow mobsters based in Cuba) found Saint-Domingue as their new core base of operations. In order to avoid facing a similar fate of Cuba, Martin Dupuy stepped down from power and replaced by the equally corrupt François Pierre Salvatore as way to save face to newly politically united North American Republic Bloc.
== Government and Politics ==
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