Cotton Party

Civil War
On July 12,1860 the Cotton Party is founded in Richmond as a pro-slavery political party

1861 elections, in a stunning election the Cotton Party's Jefferson Davis is elected president of the United States of America, as a result New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, and California secede from the USA and form the Confederate Commonwealth of America who elect Abraham Lincoln as president

1862 Jefferson Davis who had been having peace talks with the CCA decides that they will not give in and invades the fledging nation the Armies meet at the First Battle of Gettysburg, the US armies are routed after two days of battle, sporadic fighting occurs all over the CCA/USA border; Abraham Lincoln has a nightmare about a totalitarian dictatorship in America

1863 Ulysses S. Grant becomes the supreme comander of the Confederate Army, he lauches assaults all over the long frontier, eventually his Maryland Campain captures US General Robert E. Lee by surprise in Annapolis where the much better supplied CCA Army routs the entire Army of Northern Virginia, this act makes Maryland join the CCA and gains the CCA recognition from Austria, and Prussia who force Jefferson Davis to recognize the CCA as an independent nation. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis sign the Treaty of Baltimore wich does these things:

A) the Confederate Commonwealth of America whould be recognized as an independent nation

B) The the Dakota, Washington, Nebraska, and Nevada te

rritory whould become CCA territory

C) Slavery in the CCA whould be officialy abolished and slavery in the USA whould be abolished January 1, 1866

Reconstruction
January 1, 1864 Jefferson Davis signs the Treaty of Baltimore

Janurary 29, 1864 Licoln selects the CCA's new flag

May 22, 1864 Philidelphia is selected as the CCA's new capitol

July 4, 1864 the CCA, Austria, Italy, and Prussia sign the Quadruple-Ente Alliance

October 12, 1865 Former US president Jefferson Davis is killed by a anti-slavery radical

October 14, 1865 President Stephen Douglas is killed by the same anti-slavery radical who is later identifyed as Robert Jackson III

October 15, 1865 President Michael McMan declares the third part of the Treaty of Baltimore "null and void" and is support by the mostly Cotton Party Congress; war between the CCA and the USA is narrowly avoided by a quick move by Prussia, the capitol of the US is moved to Richmond and the captiol of Virginia is moved to Jamestown

January 1, 1866 Slaves in the USA are mourning for the lost of thier freedom once more

Januaruy 5, 1866 the CCA changes the title of President to Consul and creates a one house congress with 3 representitives from each state that are elected every second Friday in November

January 10, 1866 the CCA Congress passes the Freedman's Act wich grants every slave who escapes to the CCA citizenship

March 7, 1866 The USA, the Ottoman Empire and Persia sign the العبودية التحالف

March 10, 1866 " The national government shall never infringe the right to own or purchase a slave." Becomes the 13 admendment to the constitution of the USA

April 13, 1866 the Alliance between the USA, Ottoman Empire and Persia changes its name to the

Constanitinople-Richmond Pact

May 12, 1866 France joins the Quadruple-Ente, the name of the Quarduple-Ente is changed to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

June 22, 1866 a slave revolt in Jamestown kills 13,000 civilians and soliders while only 2,000 slaves are killed federal troops arive to quell the revolt

June 23, 1866 the govenor of Virginia is killed by rebelling slaves; the CCA seceretly sends guns and ammunition to the slaves

June 24, 1866 Union troops burn Jamestown to the ground and kill every man of color they can find this effectivley ends the Jamestown Slave Revolt

June 30, 1866 the leader of the Jamestown Slave Revolt is captured and whipped to death

November 1, 1866 the DC Treaty is signed making the District of Colombia a meeting place for the CCA and the USA governments

Cold War
April 3, 1867- November 8, 1899 the CCA and the USA have a time of weary almost cold war like state during this time the US

fights a second Civil War with Florida after the state secedes beacuse of anti-slavery feelings from the arriving refugees from the North and West Europe but this one is put down in 22 weeks, 

the the Confederate Commonwealth of South America is created incorperating all of South America and Central America except (with OTL borders) Brazil, and Mexico

British occupation of Egypt and French domination of North Africa is thrawrted and the Ottoman Empire and Persia mondernizes, 

the US turns Mexico into a protectorate

Great Britain joins NATO along with the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg and the new nation of Greece; Russia, and Serbia join the Constantinople-Richmond Pact (C-R Pact)

November 9, 1899 US forces ocupy DC the CCA threatens war if they don't withdraw

World War
November 10, 1899 CCA Consul Ulysses S. Grant II declares war on the USA, the rest of the Constantinople-Richmond Pact declare war on NATO; US troops enter Maryland

November 11-13, 1899 NATO troops fight US troops at the battle of the Potomac, NATO troops suffer almost 40% casualties while the US troops suffer 50%-60% losses but NATO troops withdraw first; Austrian troops enter Serbia and march to 15 miles outside of Belgrade loosing 140 men to unorganizd miltia; Russian troops invade Germany and reach Konigsberg only to find the main German army lying in wait there, the Russian troops are over-welmed by the massive number of partisan and professianal soliders

November 14-17, 1899 Austrian troops are backed by French and German troops take Belgrade and kill the Serbian king sending the troops into dissaray; German troops push the Russians back; Great Britain lands troops in Alexanderia, Egypt and take the city; US troops from Kentucky enter Ohio; CCA troops liberate DC

the rest of November, 1899 US troops and militia encircle the NATO troops but aren't able to hold the line; Ottoman troops beat the Brits back into the sea but are unable to stop nearly 70% from escaping to Athens; French troops land in Tripoli and take the region of Tunisia; all of Serbia is taken by Austria who then push into the area surrounding Constantinople; a draft begins in the CCA and all of the warring nations

December, 1899 Russian troops land in New Orleans, USA and support the thrust up the Mississippi to nearly St.Louis; US troops once again thrust into Maryland and make head killing and pillaging and raping all the way to Baltimore and they are constanly attacked by NATO troops but beacuse of the recent surrounding although they broke out they have little food; Ottoman troops break out of Constantinople and push the Austrians into a full fledge retreat

Janurary, 1900 US troops surround Annapolis and force the city to surrender, they capture Baltimore and force the state's legislature to seccede by killing off the old legislature and replacing it with thier own; CCA troops push from St.Louis but fail to break the combined US-Russian force's line; Ottoman troops chase the Austrians and engage them at every time they can, eventually they reach the gates of Vienna but fail to enter the city

Feburary, 1900 Austrian toops break out of Vienna; Spain joins NATO; Persian troops enter India but are beaten back rather quickly but the Brittish orders of "to stay and defend" don't allow them to take this advantage; the CCA asks the other NATO countries wether a cease-fire should be called all but Greece say no

March, 1900 the US-Russian force surrounding St.Louis finally forces the CCA troops to surreder conditionally the terms of the surrender for fair treatment is broken and they are all slaughtered, this rallies CCA troops and civilians to fight harder, Baltimore is retaken; Austrian troops push the Ottomans to Zagreb where they await German reenforcements, whe they arrive they find a heavily dug in mass of troops but through tactical smarts and heavily patriotic troops manage to kill all but 29 of the Ottoman force

The Fall of the Golden Crescent

April, 1900 the Austrian-German force recaptures the Balkans and razes Kosovo, Skopje, and Sofia, they then clash with Ottoman forces outside of Instanbul before capturing the city and grant non-military persons safe leave to Sarajevo; CCA troops fight US forces outside of Annapolis and recapture DC for 16 hours before being forced out; British troops in India are finally given the green light and march into Persia where they kill nearly 340,000 troops and losing 1,230

May, 1900 CCA troops with British assistance reclaim all of Maryland who on the 12 of the month officialy rejoin the CCA; US troops fortify DC; Austrian-German troops repel 13 attempts to retake Instanbul, they then enter Asia Minor establishing a front 24 miles outside of Instanbul

June, 1900 NATO (mostly CCA and Spanish) land in Gallipoli and barely capture the city; Maxim guns begin to be mass produced in Germany, Austria and France; the mondernized gattling gun (comonly called the G-gun) is mass produced in the US and CCA although the two versions are radicaly different in the truning operator as the CCA's is moved by venting gasses from the bullet when they fire to move it while the US's is still manually powered, but they both are belt fed; G-guns are first used on mass in the Battle of Bull Run where the CCA's troops defend against the attacking US troops who are all either slaughtered or from a "accidental" miscomunication all killed after battle

July, 1900 US propogandist fail to use Bull Run as a rallying cry dopping morale; NATO troops in Asia Minor meet in Ankara after two weeks of extremely bloody warfare, the city is captured but the insurgency in the city cuses nearly 2/3 of the deaths in the battle; Thomas Edison creates electric motors for cars (wich are still quite primitive) and makes them reliable and easy to make, he works alongside his friend Ford to vreate large assembley lines to make the process fast and cheap

August, 1900 the Ottoman Empire's military stages a coup and suddernders to NATO the Treaty of Vienna is signed wich says these things

1) The Ottoman Empire is to be disolved and this is to be the new map of the Middle East and former Ottoman Empire:[look at picture to the right](note: the Caucasus was Ottoman)

2) Turkey's government is to be ruled by the same people as the Ottoman Empire was after the coup

3) Turkey will join NATO and the rest of the former Ottoman Empire will join NATO all as unvoting members until 1915 

4) NATO forces are given permission to pass through the formerly Ottoman areas unharmed

August, 1900 (after Treaty of Vienna) Angered by the Ottoman's surreder crimes against the formerly Ottoman citizens spike in the US and Russia; the Constantinople-Richmond Pact is renamed the Richmond-St.Petersburg Pact

September, 1900 CCA 'ironclads' (really battle ships) destroy the Port of Miami and the battle that ensues is a decisive CCA victory, Austrian-German troops go through the Caucasus into the southern border of Russia and race up to the City of Kiev; Spanish land in the Crimea and win only after nearly 60% casualties but morale is still strong and the event gains the Spanish military "Дьявол Собаки" or "Devil Dogs" titles French and CCA troops arrive the next day

Operation: November Rush

November, 1900 US troops lauch the November Rush and launch simotaneous attacks in Maryland, the North West and the Western border in one week they capture Chicago, Anapolis, and Las Angelas areas, the CCA forces fall back from the surprise attacks but the US forces are relentless with Russian reenforcements arriving they capture Las Vegas, Sacramento, Baltimore, Gettysburg and they continue, by the end of the month they're approaching Philidelphia; Edison extends the life of the Edison Electric Motors to 3 hours (nearly a 300% increase)

December, 1900 the Russian front becomes a very bloody stalemate after Russian troops hastily yet adequate trenches with serfs doing nearly 1\2 of the work; US troops surround Philidelphia and make camp for winter

Winter 1900-1901 the winter sees little action as both sides are very cold and don't want to fight eventually spring arrives and much too soon for some people's taste

March, 1901 CCA officials were thankfuly evaquated hours before the US breeched the city's defences, they fled through the sewer system and arived 8 days later in Providence, Rhode Island the de facto capital; US forces burn the city although carefully making sure Independence Hall does not burn, the city's residents either join the resistance or flee

April, 1901 CCA Consul Grant II pleas to other NATO countries for help but they are already pushing thier limits; Russian troops launch a front wide offence and break the stalemate; the CCA vies to the other NATO nations for a peace treaty and all but Luxembourg agree to that peace is necessassary; the Treaty of Washington DC is signed on the last day of the month wich says these things

1) the CCA would be reduced to Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, New England, California, Oregon, Washington, Michingan, Wisconisn, Illinois, Indiana, and Kansas (note: all state borders are same as in OTL and virginia still owns west virginia)

2) Washington DC shall become a DMZ and a meeting place between either just the USA and the CCA or the NATO and R-M Pact

3) Virginia, Kansas, Maryland, 22 miles inside the Russian-Euro border, and the Caucasus would become DMZs in all aspects except that they can have only 1,500 military personnel inside for essential task

4) the Treaty of Vienna would be respected

5) India (OTL India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh) is to be granted independence from Great Britain

Uneasy Peace and Change
May, 1901 the Treaty of Washington DC is signed and within 48 hours all nations withdraw troops from the DMZs; 12 Turkish officials kill themselves after relizing the Ottoman Empire could have lived if they had waited, but many point out that in all actuality the Ottoman Empire would not have lasted that long and they stopped while they were ahead; the Confederate Commonwealth of America reorganizes itself as the Commonwealths of America the constitutional convention that follows creates these Articles of the Commonwealth

We the PEOPLE of the Commonwealths of America to provide common security, defened liberties, and proctect the well-being of our citizens whom we serve out of respect herebye establish these Articles of the Commonwealth

I) No religon shall be prohibited or exalted by any part of the government

II) Slavery shall be prohibited in the Commonwealths of America

III) The right of the people to keep and Bear Arms shall not be prohibited

IV) The right to an attorney (and if one can not afford one one will be provided by the Commonwealth), the right to a speedy trial, the right to a fair trial, the right to not testify against self, the right to not testify against spouse, the right to remain silent when questioned by law enforcement, all stated above shall not be prohibited

V)The right to peacefuly gather shall not be prohibited

VI) The right to the freedom of speech shall not be prohibited

VII) The Freedom of the Press shall not be prohibited

VIII) The right to not be unlawfuly searched or unlawfuly questioned shall not be prohibited 

IX) The right of the people to freely travel throughout the Nation shall not be prohibited except for National Security

X) All the articles above and this article is not to be repealed or moddified in any way, shape or form

XI) Congress shall be made up of two Representitives from each Commonwealth who are elected every second Friday in November; the Congress shall have the power to enact laws in accordance to the constitution,create and levy taxes,mint currency, reapeal laws, impeach the President of the Congress with a 22/25% vote

XII) The President of the Congress will be elected every 730 days except when the term runs along side with a leap year (every year evenly disible by 4) in wich case it is 731 days with the term starting on and ending on the second Tuesday in November ; the President of the Congress shall put forth what issues will come before Congress, pardon a criminal, declare war, and sign bills that have passed congress into law or veto said bill wich can be over-ruled by a 65% majority; the President of the Congress shall serve as the Head of State; the President of the Congress shall choose 9 people to serve on a supreme court which shall preside for life but they must also be approved by Congress

XIII) The Federal Government shall be able to draft all males between 18 and 45 for service in the National Army but they can only be drafted for four years and must wait one year inbetween drafts; the Federal Government can draft all males between 13-60 in case of invasion and suspend all drafting time limits for the duration of the invasion; one can enlist volantiraly and become a full-time solider for the National Army

XIV) A new Constitutional Convention can be called to recreate the Articles of the Commonwealth with 9/10 of the Commonwealths calling for one; new Articles can be added or reapealed by 8/10 of the Commonwealths voting on the act

XV) The Commonwealths can enact laws in acordance to the Constitution; No price control laws shall be enacted in any part of government except for weapons going to the military, but the price can only be less then or equal to a 22% change of the price; income shall not be taxed except when at war for over 4 years but must stop the tax once the war is over

June, 1901 the Articles of the Commonwealth are signed June 22, 1901 the first CA President of the Congress is suprisingly is ,Hercule Poirot, a former Belgian Detective, and Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey

July, 1901 the Reconstruction of War Damaged Areas Act of 1901 is passed in the CCA Congress and $15,000,000 is sent to damaged states to aid war recovery the de facto capital of Providence's population begins to increase from refugees; The French Foriegn Legion stops a coup attempt from several ministers including the minister of defence and the minister of finances, they are tried for treason and executed by firing squad; US exports double to the Middle East and Asia Minor to help in reconstruction but seceretly they also send ammunition and the latest rifles; President Poirot issues an order for a Great War Memorial and gives $10,000, half of it is his own money

August, 1901 Pro-Slavery terrorist in Kansas kill 32 but is put down by local citizens; Small Pox vaccines are created in New York for the first time and exported to other NATO countries; Jordanian artillery fire on Israel after thier President called the Jordanian King a qoute "Idiotic Moron" for allowing guns from the military aromories go un-guarded wich allowed Muslim extremeist to raid the entire facility, the Israel Event is put down within hours beacuse of good diplomacy and the extremely accurate Israeli Artillery Corps; the CA Congress is given the power to end fraud and break up monopolies in the Economic Regulation Act of 1901

September, 1901 Many US slaves escape to Kansas and beacuse of the Freedman's Act are now protected from slave catchers, in responce the US government put an electrfied metal fence about 20 feet out side of the Kansas-US border, The CA government calls for the wall to be taken away but the US government scofs at them and the US President Woodrow Wilson says"F*** you! I'm not taken down this wall.", in responce President Poirot says his now famous line "There they go again."

October, 1901 President Wilson is almost killed after falling off his horse and hitting his head on a rock, he make a full recovery with no brain damage in two weeks, to help the other President of the US recover the First Lady of the CA sends a bouquet of roses to Wilson

November, 1901 President Poirot asks Congress to tax the sale of tobacco, the Tobacco Tax Act of 1901 is passed with a 52% majority, the TTA of 1901 sets a 2% tax on the sale of tobacco

December, 1901 Problems with filing the taxes leads the CA Congress to create the Internal Revenue Service or IRS to help with the process, to make sure taxes are paid, and economic regulations are carried through correctly

Janurary, 1902 The IRS's first case of major case of fraud ends with 38 people be tried and convicted for fraudulant loans; CA Congressman Von Bismark from Maine suggests that the IRS be given clearence to sieze property if taxes are not paid (with 22 day notice), but the act fails to pass

United Socialist States of America
Feburary, 1902 US President Wilson is wounded by a sniper and loses his left arm as a result, hours afterwards Congressman Alan Jackson from South Carolina is killed, the next day the Supreme Court is arsoned, Wilson uses the crisis to call for emergency powers to secure the nation, he is granted them; he then systematicly plans and executes the assaissination of 23 more Senators and Representitives; just as proficently he does show trials that emplify the failure of the Court System; outrage sweeps across the nation; again playing the people like a fiddle he declares the constitution out-dated and gives the people a new plan the Wilson Plan as he calls it wich says:

''In these times of troubles the Government must step forth and help the people. They must protect its citizens to the end. Thus we establish the Wilson Plan for the United Socialist States of America''

I) The government will own all property public, private or otherwise

II) The Premier will have complete control over the nation and will apoint state govenors

III) The Premier will select 21 Commisars to advise the Premier, the oldest Commisar will becom Premier opon the former Premier's death

IV) Govenors will function as a Supreme Court of thier State and enact laws in conjunction with the Premier's laws and the United Socialist States of America's Constitution, and appoint judges in thier state

V) People have the freedom of religon, the right to peacefuly assemble, the right to a lawyer (and if one can't afford one, one will be provided by the state); the people will elect 11 men to a State Council from popular vote who will advise the govenors

(Later) Feburary, 1902 the Wilson Plan is accepted and Woodrow Wilson accepts his nomination as Premier and apoints the State Govenors and Commisars; President Poirot and the rest of Congressputs in place the Trade Embargo Act of 1902 and bans all trade with the USSA; Russia even seems disgusted with this with this event and officialy chastizes them; a Russian man by the name of Lenin begins to get ideas from the Bloodless American Coup of 1902 as it is now being called

March, 1902 Premier Wilson adopts the current flag for the USSA

April, 1902 Russian serfs rebel in Kiev but the rebellion is short lived after imperial shock troopers slay the rebellers; the Western Counties of Virginia ( OTL West Virginia) after 4 petitions to Wilson to give the right to bear arms secede from the USSA, Union troops enter the area but are unprepared for the guriella warfare encountered there

May, 1902 the CA seceretly sends weapons, food and money to the rebelling counties; Union troops lose 32,000 out of the 90,000 troops die to the guriellas

June, 1902 56,000 is the new death toll for the Union troops, the morale lowers to the point where a single death makes an entire brigade trun and run; Wilson pumps 200,000 soliders from Tennese and Kentucky into West Virginia

July, 1902 the death toll is now 123,000 troops dead, public oppinon of the war falls to 61% but thoes who speak out are given the option of shutting up or being sent to Georgia as a 'voluntary' worker, most shut up

August, 1902 Wilson and Poirot meet in DC and Poirot agrees to give $1,000,000 and to make the area a 1,500 troop cap DMZ zone for the annexization of West Virginia and to send the rebel leaders positions; West Virginia is annexed by the CA and the rebel leaders are caught hours before the territory became a CA terrirtory

September-December, 1902 West Virginia is rebuilt by the working class and the now emancipated black men; Wilson consolidates his power by showing that in the end he had won by making the area a DMZ he reduced CA troops on the border and he got rid of the dumbest section of Virginia, the people somehow sees his since and comes to believe him and Wilson's approval ratings reach 87% (and yes the statistic is real not a castro statistic)

Zweite Kalte Krieg
Janurary, 1903 the 21 Commisars of the USSA or the Big 21 along with many state councils begin to identify themselves with one of two parties either the Socialist Party or the New Cotton Party, both basicaly want the same thing except the NCP wants to focus gov't attention on agriculture, while the SP wishes to focus on weapons

Feburary, 1903 the SP advises Wilson to look into new weapons such as armored cars (a few were used in the West Virginia rebellion), while the NCP advises Wilson to focus on defining a slave from a citizen; 13,50 USSA citizens and 1,200 slaves escape into the CA, the Congress extends the Freedman's Act into including refugees from nations the Congress has chosen, within hours of the extension of the Freedman's Act the Congress choses the USSA and Mexico; Wilson changes his title to Chairman

March, 1903 the CA creates the first reliable armored car, the car has enough armor to stop a G-gun or machine gun bullet; Wilson is outraged that the CA created a better armored car then him sides with the SP and puts $2,000,000 to speed up the progress

April-August,1903 the CA gives Israel designs to its armored car program, they moddify it to a desert type and convert the G-gun mounts to machine gun mounts; Wilson's armored car program works finally and creates a car at least to par with the CA; the Russian Tsar is almost overthrown in a coup attempt lead by Lenin but stops the revolution in 3 days, to make sure that the socialist won't rise again he meets with Lenin and signs the Petrograde Accordes wich makes the Tsar much like the USSA Chairman except his seat is hereditary and otherwise adopts the Wilson Plans, but the moddifications make the name the Nikolas Plan much more common

September-November, 1903 Poirot is reelected to the Preident of the Congeress with over 92% of he vote even higher then when he was first elected; Wilson mokes the Presidency Races in the CA as little more then the "blind electing the blind to see for them"; the CA begins creating 20-inch fixed guns 9 miles inside the USSA-CA border in Maryland with plans to extend them along the entire border, the New York Times editor calls it the Poirot Line and the name sticks

December, 1903 Poirot and Wilson have christmas dinner in the former White House