Americans acquire all of Mexico

POD


 * John C Calhoun decides to support the acquisition of all of Mexico, where in OTL he was opposed to it. In ATL he considered Mexico a place to expand slavery to. Thus, with Calhoun rallying the support of the South, the United States force Mexico to disband their government, and it becomes a territory of the United states in 1848. There was relatively little resistance by the population because of the unpopularity of the Santa Anna Government.

1850

 * By this time the territories of California, Chihuahua, Sonora, and some others are ready to be admitted to the Union. This arouses fierce debate in Washington, as none of these territories want to have slavery. The admission of so many free states would upset the balance in the senate between free and slave states. Thus a great compromise is needed. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun step forward. After weeks of debate, there is a compromise, called the great compromise. It's details include the following


 * All future states which will be admitted to the Union will decide upon the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty.


 * A new fugitive slave law will be made in order to stop the escape of fugitive slaves.


 * Federal grants will be made, encouraging current slave-holding states to break into smaller states, and non slave-holding states to combine, thus equalizing representation in the senate.

1853

 * By this time Mexico has been carved up so that there are no so many states, thus apeasing the south. North Mexico includes Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Nueva Leon, Tamaulipas, and Coahuila. South Mexico contains Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerro, southern Veracruz, and Michoacan. Yucatan is made up of Campece, Quintana Roo, Yucatan, and Tabasco. The remaining states make up the State of Mexico. All have been admitted to the union at this time. Texas has also been split up into west Texas, Houston, North Texas, and Alamo.

1854

 * The Kansas-Nebraska Act causes unrest in America. The south, still behind in number of slave states needs Kansas to allow slavery. Calls for secession grow.

1860

 * NOVEMBER. Abraham Lincoln wins the Election by a large majority, helped significantly by the electoral votes of the new Mexican states. Lincoln was seen as more friendly to other races because of his opposition to the expansion of slavery, and thus the former Mexicans supported him.


 * The states of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and all the Texas states secede, claiming that Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery.

1861

 * MARCH. Lincoln is inaugurated. In his address to the nation, he says "I will work to preserve the union which our forefathers forged through their sweat and blood." Lincoln mobilizes the army, but does not order any incursion into the newly formed Confederate States of America.


 * APRIL. The opening shots of the Civil war are fired at Fort Sumter, when Lincoln tries to reinforce the garrison. Lincoln orders George McClellan to to execute the Python plan. This was the Plan that Lincoln had been working on since the secession of the south months earlier. the plan called for the following.


 * The main body of the union forces would attempt to capture Richmond.


 * Another Army would move south along the Mississippi form Illinois.


 * A third army would move North out of Northern Mexico. They would march on Houston, then New Orleans, and eventually meet up with the second army moving south.


 * Confederate general Robert E. Lee moves his army into northern Virginia to counter McClellan who had recently crossed the border.


 * MAY. McClellan and Lee meet in the battle of Manassass on the first. Lee routs McClellan and the Army of the Potomac retreat back over the Potomac.


 * Before General Grant can move into the state of Alamo, he must first move his army south to deal with a rebellion by Mexican Nationalists who want to recreate the old Mexican Empire. Grant puts down the rebellion when he defeats the rebel forces in the siege of Mexico City. By the end of the month he is back at the border poised to cross the Rio grand.


 * On the sixth General Hooker leads an army of about 20,000 men across the Ohio river at Cairo, Illinois, and begins marching down the east side. He is resupplied and protected by gunboats on the Mississippi. He is largely uncontested, save a few sporadic cavalry raids. He decides to divide his forces and sends about 5,000 men across the river to march north and capture St. Louis.


 * JUNE. On the second the contingent of men Hooker sent north are ambushed by a confederate force of about 10,000 men and destroyed.


 * Three days later General Grant crosses into Texas and Defeats small contingent of Texans in the battle fo Brownsville. He too is being supplied by water, by the U.S. Navy in the gulf coast.


 * General Lee crosses the Potomac into Maryland with about 40,000 troops, and fights the battle of Washington with McClellan, who commands about 55,000. The battle is a stalemate. with both sides suffering heavy casualties. Lee retreats into Virginia to Arlington, with his Army still within sight of Washington.


 * Hooker is ambushed at the gates of Memphis by a force defending it, and the force form Missouri which had been trailing Hooker's for miles. Hooker is defeated, but manages to salvage about 2/3 of his force and returns north.


 * Lee makes another move on the 30th. He had been moving most of the CSA's forces East, and so he took about 35,000 troops to distract McClellan. General Stonewall Jackson took about 20,000 troops farther west in an indirect attack on the Northeast.


 * Lee leads McClellan on a chase through Maryland and southern Pennsylvania for over a week, while Jackson moved north sacking Harrisburg, Reading and approaching Philadelphia.


 * Lee is defeated by the sheer overwhelming strength of the Union army after he is trapped against the banks of Raystown lake. A large portion of the army is destroyed, and Lee is captured.


 * JULY. Jackson retreats back into Virginia, since his small force cannot stand up to McClellan larger force.


 * Grant takes Houston after a week-long siege. He is puzzled at why more resistance is not being thrown against him.


 * Hooker attempts to cross the Mississippi again, but this time his landing is turned back by General Albert Sidney Johnson.


 * McClellan enters Virginia. He marches onto Richmond, but is hindered by a hostile population who sabotages his army multiple times. On the 24th he reaches Richmond, and Jackson is entrenched in front of the city. McClellan sends in wave after wave, but they are all rebuffed by Jackson with minimal losses. McClellan is removed from command because he lost almost half of his 60,000 men. The reality sets in that this war will be long and hard.


 * AUGUST. In the east both sides return to their borders after suffering incredible losses of men. A draft is instituted in bot the North and South to replace the tens of thousands both sides have lost. The one place the north has had success is in Texas, where Grant is now approaching Louisiana.


 * On the 9th Jackson sends Longstreet west to try and hold back Grant, while waiting for Lincoln to name a successor to McClellan.


 * On the 24th Lincoln recalls Grant to the East to Command the main Union force. Burnside takes control of the Army in Texas.


 * SEPTEMBER. Both sides make harassing raids in the East but nothing more.


 * OCTOBER. Burnside besieges New Orleans, but is soon forced to break off the siege when Longstreet attacks with a superior force.


 * NOVEMBER. Both armies in the east make camp for the winter. Hooker's forces are reinforced in the Midwest.


 * DECEMBER. Grant meets with Lincoln to discuss strategy for the next year. Jackson does the same with Jefferson Davis. The Union decides to raise armies from the Mexican states. Until this point the armies had only been formed by the states who were in the union before 1848. They also decide to start admitting Blacks into the Army.

1862

 * JANUARY. The Union decides they are going to commit everything to gamble everything on another push at Richmond. The Confederates decide they will defeat any northern attack and then go on the offensive attacking Washington D.C. towards the end of the month the Mexican units are taking shape.


 * MARCH. Grant withdraws 90% of all Union forces currently west of the Appalachians to the area outside Washington D.C. These soldiers will soon be replaced by even greater numbers of soldiers from Mexico.


 * The Union launches operation Bone-Crusher on the 31st. Grant Marches into Virginia with nearly 80,000 men. Jackson has about 60,000 under his command. Both armies have been revitalized by the draft, and are fresh after a winter of rest. The two armies meet around Fredericksburg. Grant is repulsed in his initial assault on the Confederates who hold the high ground. but on the second day he performs a flanking maneuver and drives Jackson from the field. Neither side suffers more than mild casualties.


 * APRIL. The second battle of Richmond starts. This time the Union forces completely encircle the city and a siege begins.


 * MAY. General Burnside captures New Orleans, and General Hooker makes another excursion into Kentucky. Longstreet has returned east with almost all Confederate soldiers west of he Appalachians to try and relieve Jackson.


 * JUNE. The siege of Richmond is now in its second month. conditions are getting desperate behind the trenches, as food is running low. At the end of the month Longstreet approaches Richmond with about 20,000 weary men.


 * JULY. Grant takes half of his forces to deal with Longstreet, and leaves Reynolds in charge of the siege. During this time Jackson attempts a breakout. he is successful and Reynolds takes the army in a retreat to rejoin Grant. Longstreet and Jackson meet up and launch an attack against the Union forces who are still trying to organize. The next day they meet five miles from Richmond. At first it appears that Grant's middle is about the break, but then they recover and hold the line. Both sides suffer heavy losses but in the end Jackson must retreat. Lincoln uses the victory as a chance to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves, in the USA and CSA. Martial law is declared in Maryland to deal with Anti-Lincoln riots.


 * AUGUST.Unable to engage Grant in any other major battle, Grant retreat's to Washington for resupply. On the way he burns Richmond. After the siege was broken, the CSA government had been evacuated and relocated to Charleston.


 * SEPTEMBER. The armies under Burnside and Hooker meet at Memphis. The confederacy is now cut in half.


 * OCTOBER. Jackson camps near the ashes of Richmond, while Grant camps in Arlington, on the Virginia side of the Potomac to make a statement. The combined armies of Burnside and Hooker make camp near Memphis.


 * November. The CSA makes pleas to Britain and France for aid but none is forthcoming.


 * December. Grant meets with Lincoln to decide on strategy for the next year. The same is done in the confederacy.

1863

 * MARCH. Lincoln and Grant start operation decimation. this will involve a shifting of troops west, while still maintaining a large army in the east to occupy Jackson. The Army under the Command of Burnside and Hooker swells to over 40,000 while Grants force is still about 50,000. Jackson commands 40,000 men in the est, and sends Longstreet west to command a force of 25,000. The plan in the west is for Hooker to take 15,000 men east through Kentucky, Burnside to take 10,000 south into Alabama, and General Sherman to take 15,000 southeast towards Georgia. All three were ordered to destroy everything in their path.


 * MAY. Longstreet engages Hooker near Bowling Green, KY. Longstreets superior forces prevail, and Hooker retreats to the southwest, in an attempt to link up with Sherman. Grant continues to pursue Jackson, stretching his supply lines, while burning anything in his sight. An army consisting of entirelly of hispanics, officers and enlisted men begins an attack to take control of Texas, Louisiana, arkansas, and Missouri


 * JUNE. Burnside takes Jackson with only light resistance. almost all southern manpower currently available is under the conrol of Jackson or Longstreet. Hooker meets up with Sherman just prior to their arival at chattanooga. Longstreet alos arrives, but does not engage the Union force. On the 18th Jackson sends Jeb stuart to cut Grant's supply lines, and he succedes, Grant is forced to retreat. Longstreet digs in on the south side of he Cumberland, with his 25,000 men, and teh few thousand local defenders.Grant and Hooker prepare to attack with their forces of about 30,000, becasue they had been slightly reinforced. Their forces manage to gain a foothold on the southern bank, but the fighting is bloody, and a breakout is not happening.


 * JULY. On the fourth, a task force of about five thousand crosses the cumberland 10 miles down the river. They take Longstreet in the rear, and this as well as an attack from the front froce Longstreet to flea. On the 18th, Burnside marches into Mobile.


 * AUGUST. Grant makes one last push in the summer campaigns and attacks Jackson at Charlottesville on the 31st. Both sides take high casualties, adn Grant retreats. However the victor is Grant, as the South cannot afford these casualties as well. Sherman marches into Gerogia, but is harrassed the whole way by longstreet. Burnside has to stop hsi advance because of his long supply lines.


 * SEPTEMBER. Both sides take an opportunity to rest and resupply. All of the land west of the Mississippi is now under union control.


 * OCTOBER. THe western armies are ordered to hault, so that the Government can consolidate their hold on tennesse, texas, arkansas, missouri, lousiana, mississippi, and alabama. the only parts of the confederacy that reamain in rebel hands are Virginia, North and South carolina, Gerogia, Florida, and some of Kentucky.


 * NOVEMBER. Strategy is reviewed for both sides for the following year. the debate in the north is whether to devote the main force to try and destroy jackson, or continue from the west. The confederates are debating whether or not to attack and risk eerything, or try adn defend. The union decides to devote everything in the east, while the Confederates decide to attack.

1864

 * February. jackson gathers the remainder of the Confederacies man power. He recalls Longstreet and leaves only a ghost force to hold down the west. Jackson summons about 65,000 men. Grant recalls all of burnsides forces, and a potrion of Shermans. Thsi leaves Sherman with about 20,000, while Grant summons about 70,000.


 * March. The confederates take the union off gaurd launching an attack earlier than expected. Grant falls back across the potomac.


 * April. Jackosn crosses teh Potomac. His goal is to capture philidelphia. He meets with grnat at the battle of Antietem. Grant is defeated, but at a high cost to Jackson. In the west, Sherman takes Atlanta.


 * June. Jackson again meets Grant at the battle of Baltimore. Grant is victorious, after a failed charge which devastates the confederate forces.Sherman sacks augusta.


 * July. Jackson retreats into virginia, with Grant hot on his heels.


 * '''August. Sherman sacks Savannah. Grant relentlessly pursues Jackson, wearing down his forces.


 * September. jackson is stil running.


 * October. THe confederate government is moved to raleigh, as Sherman closes in on charleston. Sherman does reach Charleston on halloween.


 * November. Sherman makes camp in Charleston. Grant does the same back in Maryland. Jackosn does the same near norfolk. Lincoln wins reelection

1865

 * March. Sherman moves north along the coast. Grant moves south into virginia. He engages Jackson at teh battle of Norfolk. Grant sufers heavy casualties, but he quickly replaces it. Jackson can't replace what he loses.


 * April. Sherman reaches Raleigh, NC. Grant fights Jackson at Newport news. Agian Grant sufers heavy losses, but the ones suffered by Jackson are far more lethal.


 * May. Jackson is surounded at Elizabeth City, NC when he is taken from behind by sherman, who is advancing up the coast. Jackson surrenders and eh Civil war is over.


 * July. On the fourth, Abraham lincoln announces he will allow all forme confederate states back into the Union. Once they ratify the 13th amendment banning slavery, and 25% of the population signed pledges of loyalty to the union they would be readmitted with full rights. Many more radical republicans question the wisdom of this, but Lincoln was the unquestioned leader of the nation, so they went along.

1866

 * By may all of the secceding states had been readmitted. The government apporpriated large amounts of money to help rebuild the south.

1867

 * Congress passes the 14th amendment, conferring basic civil rights on all people in the US regardless of race.

1868

 * In march, the American public is outraged when they learn that the British adn French governments had been supplying the Confederacy with with supplies, as well as letting confederate waships dock in their harbors. The British did this because they felt tehat the americans were growing too powerful, and wanted to weaken them by supporting the confederacy. Because of thsi Anglo-american relations take a turn for the worse.


 * Abraham Lincoln is elected ot a third term. He promises to lead the nation in four mroe years of healing.

1870

 * Franco-Prussian war starts in Europe. The germans win a decisive victory.


 * The Federal government government is able to pass various civil rights laws, gauranteeing All male citizens over 21 the right to vote.

1871

 * Some outraged mortherners take things into their own hands and begin making raids into canada. Lincoln and the government quickly denounce tese raids as vigilante adn illegal. They continue for moths, despite the governments eforts to put them down.

1896

 * Mckinley elected. The successfully purchases Cuba from Spain, becasue The Spanish are deep in debt. The Cubans are no friendlier to the Americans than to the Spanish. HE later purchases the rest of the Spanish Empire, including Puerto Rico, Wake, Guam, and the Phillipines

1901

 * Shortly after his reelection Mckinley is assassinated by a socialist. Teddy Roosevelt is sworn in as president. HE immediately increases the size of the military adn makes promises to the European nations that he will enforce teh Monroe Doctrine. This is because many European nations had recently become more aggressive in the western hemisphere. Roosevelt acquires Hawaii.

1902

 * After failed attempts to buy the Panamanian peninsula from the colombians, Theodore Roosevlet orders the invasion of the peninsula. This is accomplished in a matter of weeks. Next Roosevelt orders the invasion of the rest of latin America (minus british Belize), because he feels it is necessary to have a land route all the way to the canal. This is achieved by the end of the year, but it will take another tow years to pacify the area. This all creates severe backlash against rosevelt in the states. Many call him a barbarian, and he is nearly impeached. THe only thing that saved him was his terrific record of domestic reform. He realizes he may ahve crossed the line and over hte next few years concentrates his eforts on domestic reforms.

1903

 * Roosevelt helps pass many social reforms including laws prohibiting child labor, laws regulatingtrusts, and laws allowing labor to organize. this last set fo laws is especially remarkable, as after the civil war business had been allowed to flourish without government intervention, making America one of the largest industrial manufacturers in the world.

1904

 * Roosevelt wins the election.

1905

 * Roosevelt passes legislation allowing women to vote in local and state elections but not national elections.


 * Britain, fearing further expansion of America, buys Alaska from the Russians, and prepares plans to sieze northern Columbia, thus stopping any contigious American Expansion. Roosevelt says "The British are sticking their noses where they do not belong, and are going to get it broken."

1907

 * The British invade both Venezuela and Colombia from British guyana. In three months they have conquered the northern coasts of these two Nations. They sign a peace Treaty, and Venezuela and Colombia merge into one nation, because otherwise the Venezuelans would have lacked a coastline. The Colombians still control about a hundred mile stretch fo coastline on the Pacific.


 * Roosevlet is outraged, but dare's not do anything becasue of the unpopularity of his previous Latin American escapades.

1908

 * the panama canal is completed. The latin american conquests begin to bear fruit. The source of cheap labor is a boon to industrialists. Cities like Guatemala city, San Jose, and Tegucigalpa see rapid industrialization. In response to some saying that America was taking advantae of it's newest members, a minimum wage law is passed. This slows growth, but it still continues quickly. THe wages made by Latin americans are now much higher than what they made before conquest, thsu helping to further pacify them. By the end of the year, they have all been accepted as states.

1914

 * Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated. World war one begins. Germany, Austria-Hungary, adn the Ottoman Turks fight France, Britain, and Russia. Britain enters the war right away adn Begins blockading the German coast. This angers the neutral Americans, who looked to profit from both sides.

1915

 * Americans are angered at both sides when both the Germans and British sink supplies bound for the other on American ships.


 * Fighting bogs down into brutal trench warfare.

1916

 * Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term. He wins on a campaign pledge to keep the americans out of the war. Roosevlet who is normally more militaristic, reached this decision because he thought the Americans could emerge as a world power after the two warring sides drained each other of manpower.


 * Germans begin the battle of Verdun.


 * The British launch the battle of the Somme.


 * At the end of the year both sides have suffered high casualties. there is talk of a possible cease fire.

1917

 * The February revolution occurs and Rusia drops out of the war. The Germans had been sending out feelers for a peace agreement. This ends that possibility of peace, as Germany's hopes rise.


 * Germany decides not to resume unrestricted Submarine warfare, as they don't want to provoke the US.


 * Expecting a huge influx of Veterans from the eastern front the British and French launch a huge offensive. They start it on June 1st. This is the largest offensive they have made so far, as obth the french adn British had reduced forces in thier colonies to a mere pittance. THe British struck out from Ypres on the first. The French struck out from Verdun on the Fifth. Thsi delay ws hoped to take the Germans by surprise, they hopefully would have moved troops north to deal with the British and thus woudl not be able to redirect them fast enough to halt the French. The goal was to meet at Florennes by the end of the month, encircling the German army in between. Both armies would employ significant amounts of tanks.


 * The battle begins. The British make large gains on the first few gains. The Tanks cross the trenches and the Germans who were unfamiliar with the, fell back in disorder. In three days the British reach Renaix. Then the French launch their part. They meet lower resistance levels than they were used to, thus moralizing the troops that had been onthe edge of mutiny. In a week they reach Sedan. The Germans realize what is happening. After just a week of ofensive a pincer has formed they throw everything they have into stopping it. By theend of the next week they have slowed the advance, but it is still going. The British have reached Mons, and the French have reached Fumay. Just a fifty mile gap remains in the pocket. Soon however the Germans leran how to defend against tanks. They get a big enough influx of personel from theeaast tht the fronts of the two pincers never move closer than forty miles. The British moved fifty miles, and the french sixty, but they fell shortof their objective.

1918

 * The germans begin their Spring offensive against the allies who seem to have given their last great push. The German strategy is to push north from Lens to Calais, a distance of over 60 miles. TO decieve the Allies they first launch a week long artillery assault in the south, making it appear they are going to try and attack the French. Troops are moved accordingly. On April first the Germans strike out from Lens. They cover two miles in the first day. The next they cover 3. By the end of the week they have coverd 15 and have reached Lillers. By the end of the mont they have reached the sea. Most of the British army is trapped. They start a massive evacuation at Dunkirk. With the British out of the pictur temporarily The GErmans turn toward Paris, capturing and ending the war.


 * In the peace treaty France handed over all of their American, Asian, and some fo theri african colonies to Germany, while Britain kept all of her colonies, but had to pay reparations.

1920

 * The roaring twenties begin. In the victorious countries of Germany, Austria Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and also the US this is a time of unprecedented Economic growth.


 * Calvin Cooolidge is elected president.

1921

 * Civil War erupts in Austria-Hungary. THe Monarchy is unable to hold its power over the many ethnic groups. Many of the different ethnic groups call for independence. The Final result is Germany mediates a peace where Austria is absorbed into Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia are all created and are satellite states of Germany. Under the treaties Germany is allowed to maintain and move troops through these states.

1924

 * Coolidge is reelected President amid emormous prosperity.


 * Germany uses their bower to sign treaties with romania, Bulgaria, and Greece making them semi-dependent on Germany. Now Germany has virtual control of Europe from the Rhine to Russia.

1928

 * Coolidge is elected to a third term.

1929

 * The stock market crashes starting the Great Depression. Coolidge takes a policy of nonintervention in economic matters. This worsens things.

1932

 * No president has ever been so loved or so hated. Coolidge is loathed by most Americans for not doing anything to stop their suffering. FDR is elected he immediately starts cranking out new Deal programs.

1934

 * FDR has turned the nation around much faster than OTL. THis is because he supported the london conference, and helped kickstart international trade. The agreement reached at the conference lowers the tariff barrier between the great countries to less than ten percent. by the end of the year breadlines have been reduced and most people are not going hungry.

1936

 * Although things are bearable in US and Germany(plus satellites) things are still difficult in France, Russia, and Great Britain. These Three nations form the Great Free Alliance. At this point in time Russia is Communist under Stalin while Great Britain is Fascist under Oswald Mosley as well as France. In months they also convince Japan to join. The one stipulation is that France and Great Britain will surrender some of their East Asian territory to Japan. Germany becomes allied with Italy becasue thye see war on the horizon and King Victor Emmanuel III started recieving military and Economic aid from Germany.this increased the prosperity of Italy.

1938

 * Japan invades China. All of the major nations denounce this(Although it si only token from the GFA). They soon capture Shanghai and Beijing.


 * In November France demands that All territories taken from France after 1870 be returned. When Germany refuses France declares war. Britain, Russia and Japan soon follow suit.

1939

 * No military action is taken until January first. Then the French launch a massive three pronged attack in the north through The low countries at Hamburg, in the middle at Frankfurt, and in the south at Munich. The Russians Attack from St. Petersburg and Mariupol seeking to Meet at Warsaw and recapture all of the territory it lost in the Great war adn more. THe Japanes continue their campaign in China. They also invade Siam and the Dutch East Indies. America Stays Neutral but begins to mobilize theri military.


 * GFA powers claim great victories. THe line in the east streches from The north sea, to Oldenburg, to the gates of Frankfurt, to Stutgart to Switzerland.