Imperialist States of America

The Imperial States of America

1860: Abraham Lincoln loses the Presidential election, narrowly avoiding a Civil War.

1876: Hayes is elected President of the United States. Florida secedes from the Union, saying that without a single vote from the south, this is not an American Union; this is a Northern Union, shattering the joy of the nations Centennial Birthday. Florida begins to seize federal forts and arsenals.

1877: Floridian troops fire on Fort Pickens, the only Federal Fort remaining within Florida’s borders. Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, North Carolina, and Tennessee secede and unite with Florida to form the Confederate States of America, with the capital at Atlanta, Georgia. A constitution is soon approved by the Provisional Confederate Congress, and soon an aging Jefferson Davis is elected President of the Confederacy. The Confederate Armed Forces begin to mobilize, and the US Army does the same, preparing to invade and reunite the country by force. Industrialization of the south begins as only Richmond, Atlanta, Montgomery, New Orleans, Austin, and Houston have a strong industrial base, and this was thanks to the thinking of secessionists in 1860. When they realized they needed industry to have chance at beating the north, they began to pay for industrial centers in there home states.

1878: The CSA, finally mobilized, invades Arkansas and Virginia, but try to win over the people by causing as little damage as possible and paying for the supplies they take. Due to this general hospitality, Virginia and Arkansas vote to join the Confederacy. Kentucky soon follows, and the Confederate Armed Forces begin to swell with new troops and recruits. Seeing it as unable to wait any longer, the United States Navy begins to set up a blockade of the CS coast. The CS Army once again begins to prepare there new soldiers for war with the Union.

1879: Taking advantage of the Confederacies failure to act, the US Army of the Potomac invades western Virginia and begins to occupy that part of the state with little resistance as many of the western counties there were against secession and they send a petition to the US Congress to become the state of West Virginia. The US Congress agrees, and West Virginia is soon admitted to the Union as its own state. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia led by Thomas Jackson, soon moves his Army across the Potomac and begins to prepare for siege operations against Washington DC. After several weeks of preparation, the siege begins, with the US Federal Government still inside the city. 125,000 more Confederate troops are sent north to help defend Kentucky and Arkansas.

1880: Washington finally falls to CS troops and military generals of the USA announce the collapse of the Old Union and the formation of the Imperial States of America. Which instantly recognizes the CSA and cedes West Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland (as well as Washington DC), in return for the old Union’s government and a peace treaty (the Treaty of Brussels), which are then placed in power as the new nation’s government. The ISA soon drastically weakens Congress to about 2/3 of its former powers, giving the rights to declare war and peace to the President. The CSA’s people soon begin to celebrate at the collapse of the Old Union and their victory over the north, which had dominated the South for nearly a century in the Old Union.

1881: The ISA, (drastically needing money for a recently planned war against Britain to take over Canada), offers to sell the Indian, New Mexico, and Arizona Territories to the Confederacy for 12 million dollars, which the Confederacy eagerly accepts, and the Treaty of Atlanta completes the sale.



1882: The ISA begins to mobilize its armed forces to its full and complete strength, the CSA is soon notified by IS President-General Ullysses S. Grant however, and hostilities are avoided when the ISA also tells the CSA it will not be viewed as aggression if the CSA mobilizes as well.

1883: IS troop levels reach 800,000 troops, 75 ironclad steam frigates, 200 small gunboats, 150 large gunboats, 300 heavy artillery, 200 light artillery, and 200,000 cavalry. Plans for the invasion of Canada begin to be drawn up and completed.

1884: The Plans for the invasion of and conquest of Canada are completed, and IS troops begin to form 4 huge armies of 200,000 troops each with 50,000 calvary added to the main armies, making each army total 250,000 men each. The Imperial American Navy produces 27 ironclad steam frigates and they join the main naval body, which prepares to blockade Canada. The Imperial States of America and the Confederacy sign a non-aggression pact for 10 years.

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