Timeline (Two Nations, One Continent)

1860

 * November 6: Abraham Lincoln, who had declared "Goverment cannot endure pernamently half slave, half free..." is elected president, the first Republican, recieving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote.
 * December 20: South Carolina secedes from the Union. Followed within two months by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.

1861

 * April 12 - 13: Confederate forces under the command of P.G.T Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter, beginning the American Civil War.
 * June 20: Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennesse voted to secede from the Union, and join the CSA.