Timeline (Two Americas)

1860

 * November 6: is elected President of the United States. The southern states feel that they were not represented equally over the northern states.
 * December 24: In response to the Presidential election, South Carolina declares sovereignty from the United States of America.

1861

 * January: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana declare sovereignty from the United States.
 * February 1: Texas declares sovereignty from the United States.
 * February 8: In hopes of cooperation, the seven southern states join together to form the . is declared as the first President of the Confederacy. The United States of America does not recognize their sovereignty.
 * April 12: In response to the Union refusing to leave Fort Sumter in South Carolina, the Confederate States attack the fort. The American Civil War begins.
 * April 17: Virginia declares sovereignty from the United States, and joins the Confederate States.
 * May: Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina declares sovereignty from the United States, and joins the Confederate States.
 * October 24: 41 counties in western Virginia vote to secede from Virginia in order to rejoin the United States (soon to be administered as the State of West Virginia).

1862 (POD)

 * December 31: Colonel Philip Sheridan is killed in the {{TwoAm|Battle of Muphreesboro, Tennessee. This is a major point of divergence, for in OTL Sheridan would have been promoted to Maj. General and go on to lead the "Army of the Potomac" in the destruction of much of the state of Virginia.

1863

 * February: Confederate troops force Union troops out of Tennessee.




 * May 14: The Confederacy wins at the . Forcing Gen. U.S. Grant to retreat and regroup. Grant would later take Jackson, but Vicksburg would stand.  This is another major point of divergence.
 * July: The Union wins at the.

1864

 * November: The Confederacy does gain support in Missouri and Kentucky. Both states will declare sovereignty.

1865

 * January 1: Missouri and Kentucky join the CSA.

1866



 * January 27: The and  intervene in the civil war, in an attempt to bring peace to the region.


 * August 8: The Union and the Confederacy agree to a ceasefire. The fighting in America seems to be over for now.

1867

 * March 29. Russian Ambassador Eduard de Stoeckl, having renewed an offer to sell Aleyska (negotiations having been interrupted by the war), leaves the negotitations without a deal. Secretary of State William Seward had decided that the U.S. did not have the resources to expand while dealing with the "rebel states" to the south.

1868

 * March 7: Retired General proposes to the CS Congress to abolish slavery, feeling that this would secure the sovereignty of the Confederacy.

1885

 * May 8: With the tensions of the CSA and USA growing more, both sides travel to London to sign the . The treaty declared the overall border between the United States and the Confederate States, officially declaring an end to the disputed states. The treaty also declared a demilitarization of northern Virginia as a buffer state between Richmond and Washington, D.C.

1890

 * March: The Confederate States of Florida and Texas abolish the buying, selling, and trading of slaves within the state borders. The idea of slavery was not abolished.

1897

 * September 4: C.S. Congress votes on the so-called, to abolish slavery in the Confederacy. The Bill passes with a two thirds vote in both houses. signs it into law.

1898

 * January 10: Tennessee ratifies the third amendment to the C.S. Constitution, thus making it slavery illegal in all C.S. states and territories. Five states, the "heart of Dixie," vote no, making the vote as close as it could be. Louisiana would be the final state to vote for ratification in 1930, under Governor.

Spanish-American War (1898)

 * January 25: After three years of negotiations with the Spanish Embassy in Miami, the C.S. Navy sent in the CSS Mississippi to evacuate Confederate citizens that had been living in Havana, Cuba. Stories of atrocities in resettlement and interment camps had raised alarms.  The Spanish occupying forces saw this as intimidation.


 * February 15: Sometime during the night, an explosive charge ripped through the hull of the ship has it was anchored in the harbor. This explosion in turn ignited gunpowder in a nearby compartment, killing 235 outright with 8 more dying of their wounds.


 * April 20: An investigation concluded that the explosion "had to have been a mine," and the CS Congress drafted a bill to declare war on Spain. President Blackburn agrees and on April 23, Spain breaks diplomatic relations with the United States (having not yet recognized the Confederate States).  In Washington, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, {{TwoAm|Theodore Roosevelt) resigned his post and volunteered to lead a group of newly conscripted men to fight in the war (President McKinley had urged for, and received approval to go to war as allies to the southern states).


 * July 1: Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders," one of the few US regiments in the Caribbean campaign, along with soldiers from North Carolina and a regiment of recently freed black soldiers, mounted an attack with 15,000 men against 1,270 entrenched battle-hardened Spanish troops. The Americans would lose 200 that day and sustain nearly 1200 injuries.  However, they prevailed.


 * August 13: On the other side of the world, U.S. Naval forces had been engaging the Spanish on their Pacific territories in the Philippines and Guam.  Though the peace treaty had been signed on August 12th in Paris, communication was slow.  On August 13th, American forces occupied Manila in the last act of the war.


 * Aftermath Spain granted Cuba independence and sold all her Caribbean and Pacific lands to the "Two Americas" whom they came to recognize officially as such due to their collaboration in the short war. The Confederacy received the Caribbean islands for just over eight million U.S. Dollars, while the Union received the Pacific islands for about twelve million.  The $8,000,000 had been most of the CS reserve in US dollars, leading to a trade deficit that would not be resolved until just before the next war.

1947

 * November 28: US President travels to Richmond to visit CS President  (the first sitting US President to do so). On this day, in what will become known as the, the United States officially recognizes the independence of the Confederate States.

Thoughts of American reunification?
After the conference, there was talk of reunification however both sides agreed that reunification was not going to happen at this time.

Despite no talks of reunification, there was an unification of the sports league. For example in Baseball, there was a Union League (in the north) and a Confederate League (in the south). The NFL also expanded into the south..

2001

 * September 11: Terrorists hijack four United States jumbo jets and crash them into Union icons. The World Trade Centers in New York are effected the most. Within weeks, Confederate citizens will travel to New York in a cleanup effort.

2005

 * August 29: Hurricane Katrina hits land in Louisiana. The strong storm destroys the levy system of New Orleans, and the city floods. The United States sends in troops to assist the Confederacy in a rescue and cleanup effort.

2008

 * November 7: Progressive Nominee (a "Black Yankee") is elected President of the United States. The Confederacy gives no formal statement to this, but several citizens do show awe for this event. The "Black Dixie" population cheers for Obama.