Pre-Revolution (United Socialist States of America)

Stub}}3: Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by a recent immigrant upset with the military drafts. Lincoln's death is a blow for the United States of America, while his death is considered a victory in the Confederate States of America. Hannibal Hamlin is sworn is as president of the United States.

1864: John C. Fremont is elected president of the United States, giving the Radical Republicans control of the White House. Fremont vows to be victorious over the south and to punish them harshly once the war is over.

1865: General Robert E. Lee orders his army to disperse and keep up the fight against the United States through guerrilla warfare.

1866: An attempt on President Fremont's life by southern rebel John Wilkes Booth, convinces him to expand the power and scope of the Secret Service Division (SSD), to act as a national law enforcement agency under the direction of the President.

1867: The last organized force for the Confederate States is defeated. The former states of the Confederacy are demoted to territories governed under martial law. Meanwhile, the Radical Republicans push through Congress new laws to protect the rights of free blacks. These actions increase the ranks of southern resistance fighters.

1876: Liberal Republicans, angry over Radical Republic control of the party, split from the party and throw their support behind the Democratic nominee for President, Samuel Tilden. The Republican nominee, Rutherford B. Hayes, still won the election amid allegations of vote fraud. Many of leading protesters are arrested by the SSD for sedition. When the protesters attempt to get the Supreme Court to intervene, President Hayes packs the court with several new justices who support his decision.

1880: In an effort to cement their power over the United States, leading Republic politicians begin cutting deals with wealthy industrialists, or "Robber Barons" as USSA history would call them. In return for pro-business laws, these industrialists promised to finance Republican candidates on every level of government. Deregulation, monopolies and union breaking thrive from here on out.

1886: Resistance in the southern territories has reached its lowest level with many hardcore southern rebels either being killed, captured, or fled to Brazil.

1898: Spanish–American War. The United States gain control of Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam. Both the Philippines and Cuba revolt after it becomes apparent that the US will not give them independence.

1901: President William McKinley barely avoided being killed by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist. Paranoid he rushed through Congress and the states the 16th amendment, which gives the President the ability to suspend the Constitution and assume emergency power in times of national crisis.

1904: Former Vice President Theodore Roosevelt is elected president over Democrat Alton Parker and Socialist Eugene Debs, who did surprisingly well for a third party taking a significant amount of the vote.

1905: