Two Americas

During the American Civil War, the wins at the Siege of Vicksburg, while the  wins at the Battle of Gettysburg. Both of these victories means the continual success of each government, and prolongs the war into a bloodier war between the once united nation. Britain and France only get involved in the war in order to prevent it from expanding even further than it already has. In 1868, the Confederacy and the Union agree to a ceasefire base based on the supporting states of each government. The Confederate States is recognized by Britain and France as a separate nation from the US, while the United States continues to call it a rouge country.



The Confederacy would expand on its territory when the "new nation" gets involved in gaining independence from its neighbors Cuba and Puerto Rico. The Confederate States would win the war, Cuba and Puerto Rico would become territories of the CSA. The Philippines and Guam would remain under Spanish rule until the Spanish Civil War. The United States would get involved in the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, but the island would not become a territory of the US in 1890. The US sets up a military base in Pearl Harbor.

At the beginning of World War I, both the US and CS would be neutral and support both sides for personal gain. It wouldn't be until the Zimmerman Telegraph that the CSA would declare War on Germany. The United States would remain out of the due to isolationism.

The Great depression would hit both Americas in a big way. Once solution that the Confederate States implements to help recover is to reinstate the Slave Trade. Though only a few other nations would trade with the CSA, the global view would cause a hard blow to the ideal of Confederate Slavery.

With the outbreak of World War II, both Americas would remain neutral again. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a Confederacy-Union coalition would be issued to help the Allies. The USA and Hawaiian forces would fight in the Pacific, while the CSA and British forces would fight in Europe and Africa. During the coalition, both sides would work together on nuclear ambitions. The United States would detonate a nuclear weapon in the Nevadan desert. The US would use the bomb against Japan in 1945, ending the Pacific war and World War II.

After the success of the coalition, the United States and the Confederate States would begin to see the positives of cooperation. On Thanksgiving Day, 1947, a joint US-CS conference in Washington, DC would officially declare the end of the American Civil War and a peace treaty between the two states. The State of War in North America was over. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union would be the lone superpower, while the USA and CSA would be on the same level as Britain and France at the time. In October 1962, the Soviet Union would ally with the communist government of Nicaragua (Cuba being tightly controlled by the CSA), and would place nuclear missiles there, and the would ensue. The USSR would eventually remove the missiles, but the stance of the USA and the CSA would bring the two nations closer together.

The ideals of Confederate slavery would come full circle in the 60s and 70s as minority uprisings spread across the CSA. The expanding Abolitionist movement would primarily be preached by Southern slaves. This included Malcolm X (a black Northerner) and Martin Luther King (a Southern slave). The movement would take a huge turning point when the Confederacy elects a well known abolitionist as President, Jimmy Carter. On March 27, 1979, the Confederate Congress will officially pass an amendment to the constitution that abolished slavery from the CSA, and freed all slaves in the South and Confederate territories. The world was shocked at such an event, and Carter is revered in the United States and World. The Southern most states would not be so enthusiastic, but slavery was virtually obsolete by 1980. Though slavery was over, several of the Southern states continue to use the Jim Crow laws.

During the late 80s and early 90s, both Americas began to look more as a single nation and not two. Similar to how Germany will reunite in 1990, the two Americas though of.