Timeline (The Many Nations of North America)

19th Century
February 4, 1861: Formation of The Confederate States of America, the first major secession in North American history.

July-August, 1861: A large number of the survivor (From both Union and Confederates sign) of The Battle of the Bull Run start to show strange signs of fever of an unknown nature. It start to spread extremely quickly through the ranks of soldiers, incapicating large numbers and leading to hundreds of fatalities. The virus is dubbed the Veteran Fever. Its rapid spread cripples both armies, causing a gradual ceasefire. Some states start to barricade themself in order to contain the epidemic, including Texas.

June 1862: Abraham Lincoln's son, William Wallace Lincoln, dies of Veteran Fever. The mounting death toll encourages Lincoln to call for an armistice, amidst the rising cost of dealing with the epidemic.

August 1862: Treaty of Richmond. The First Civil War ends with the independence of the Confederate States of America. By now, the fever has claimed hundreds of lives. Slavery is banned in the United States.

1864: Lincoln is defeated in the United States election by George McClellan. To prevent another civil war, McClellan introduces a large-scale decentralisation of power to the states. This is the beginning of a gradual trend of the loss of federal power.

1866: First presidential elections in the Confederate States of America. Democratic vice-president Alexander Stephens easily defeats independent Robert E. Lee, who after his defeat forms the National Party. Ku Klux Klan begin attacks on black freedmen, helped by the leniency of the Confederate government.

1874: A second outbreak of Veterans Fever leads to states across America closing their borders. Texas introduces discriminatory policies towards immigrants, to prevent a further outbreak of Veterans Fever within Texas. This led to Ku Klux Klan attacks on Texan government properties for what they saw as 'race betrayal', for not acting in alliance with the CSA. In response to the Confederate government's inaction, Texas declares independence.

1876: First Texan-Confederate War. Texas attempts to seize the Confederate territories of Arizona and New Mexico, but is defeated. The territories remain under Confederate control.

1882: Secession Crisis, also known as the Second Civil War. Maryland attempts to reintroduce slavery under the States Act 1880, which gives it wide-ranging powers over internal affairs. The federal government condemns this, leading to a declaration of independence by Maryland and Delaware as the Federal Union of Maryland. The United States sends an expeditionary force into Maryland to depose the Maryland government, but is forced to back down by widespread popular opposition. Washington, DC, remains in United States hands. Maryland continues sending freemen to Liberia.

1890s: Maryland's policy of sending freemen to Liberia eventually leads to dominance of Liberian affairs.

20th Century
1903: Second Texan-Confederate War. The Confederate States attempt to incorporate their Oklahoma Territory as a state, including areas disputed between Texas and the CSA. Texas objects to this, and declares war, invading Oklahoma. The CSA are forced to recognise Oklahoma's annexation into Texas, and are cut off from their Arizona and New Mexico Territories, which come under increasing Texan domination.

1907: Liberia is incorporated as a protectorate of Maryland, dramatically boosting its economy. Ironically, the Federal Union of Maryland, now comprising the states of Maryland, Delaware and Liberia, now controls more land in Africa than it does in North America.

1929: The Great Depression. Decentralisation makes this crisis even more devastating than in OTL; riots break out across America. The United States government, under Herbert Hoover, is ineffectual in solving the crisis, and is increasingly seen as being unresponsive to regional concerns. Joseph Taylor Robinson, Confederate President, comes under similar pressures. The economic crisis brings both nations closer to war.

1930: Final Civil War. President Robinson of the CSA declares war on the United States over a border incident. Capitalising on widespread discontent with the war, Texas engineers a coup in Louisiana, causing the new military government to seize Arkansas and declare independence. This secession sets off a wave of secessions across both the CSA and the USA. After the CSA manages to seize West Virginia in the war against the USA, Virginia secedes, taking West Virginia with it. The Confederate government is forced to flee to Jackson, Mississippi. At the same time, Florida and the Carolinas declare their independence. By the end of the year, only Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia remain loyal to the Confederate government. The United States declares victory, but struggles intensely to keep the states in line. Mexico invades New Mexico and Arizona, and sets up a puppet government as the People's Republic of Aztlan.

1931: California is the first US state to secede. Hoover sends federal troops to deal with the crisis, but mutinies amongst the troops make these ineffective. Federal power breaks down across the United States. The New York-New England Confederation and the Free Republic of Pennsylvania secede. Maryland invades Washington, DC, in order to seize power over the United States to restore order. Hoover is killed by Maryland troops. Charles Curtis flees west. Maryland troops set up Henry Stimson as a puppet United States President, but he lasts less than a week before his death at the hands of loyalist troops. The collapse of federal power leads to coups in the Midwest and Rocky Mountain states, leading to the creation of the Rocky Mountain Confederation and the Iowa Free State. The Mormon Church takes control of government in Utha, and declares independence. Curtis sets up a government in exile in Kansas and Nebraska, the only two states which remain loyal to the United States. Pacifica is the last state to secede. The United States has effectively collapsed.

1932: Wars break out between the new nations of North America over territory. Oklahoma attempts to secede from Texas, but is defeated. The Iowa Free State and the Rocky Mountain Confederation fight over control of disputed territory. The expansionist Republic of Virginia fights a brief, unsuccessful war against Maryland. The continent is generally in anarchy, with little control over large areas in the Mid West, South, and West.

1933: New York secedes from the New England-New York Confederation. Vermont makes moves to follow, but it is temporarily placated by increased federal funding from the New England Confederation. The anarchy across the continent begins to settle.

21th Century
2005: The Treaty of San Francisco is signed, ending the North American War