As we all know, Abraham Lincoln was born during 19th century and lead the United States during the Civil War. What if he had been born in the 20th instead?
Brief timeline: 1860-1909[]
1860- William H. Seward wins the Presidential Election causing the Southern states to succeed and to form the Confederacy.
1861- Kansas is admitted into the Union
1861- Fort Sumter isn't bombarded and the civil war doesn't happen
1862- Jefferson Davis is elected as the first of many Presidents of the Confederate States of America
1862- West Virginia is admitted into the Union
1864- Nevada is admitted into the US
1864- Davis is re-elected President of the Confederate States
1864- Seward loses the election to George McClellan
1865- McClellan tries to declare war on the Confederacy but is vetoed by Congress
1866- The Confederacy is recognized by both Britain and France but had to abolish slavery to be
1867- The US buys Alaska from Russia
1867- Nebraska is admitted into the Union
1868- Robert E. Lee is elected President of the Confederacy
1868- McClellan loses the election to Ulysses S. Grant
1872- Former stage actor John Wilkes Booth is elected President (Lee supported Booth)
1872- Grant is re-elected
1876- John Wilkes Booth is re-elected
1876- Grant is re-elected for a third term
1876- Colorado is admitted into the Union
1880- Thomas Jackson is elected as President of the CSA
1880- James A. Garfield is elected as President of the USA
1881- James A. Garfield is assassinated
1881- Rumors spread that Garfield's assassination was carried out by the CSA
1882- Richmond is attacked by US forces
1882- Britain and France declare war on the US
1884- Jackson is re-elected
1884- Grover Cleveland is elected President of the US and stops all war efforts.
1888- John Bell Hood is elected President of the CS
1888- Grover Cleveland narrowly defeats Benjamin Harrison in the 1888 election
1889- North and South Dakota, Montana, and Washington are admitted into the Union
1890- Idaho and Wyoming are admitted into the US
1892- James B. Weaver is elected President of the CS
1892- Cleveland is re-elected to a third term
1896- Weaver is re-elected CS President
1896- William McKinley is elected US President
1896- Utah is admitted into the Union
1900- William Howard Taft is elected President of the CS
1900- McKinley is re-elected President of the US
1901- McKinley is assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
1904- Taft is re-elected CS President
1904- Theodore Roosevelt is re-elected President of the US
1907- Oklahoma is admitted into the Confederacy
1908- Warren G. Harding is elected President of CS
1908- Roosevelt is re-elected for a third term
1909- Abraham Lincoln is born
1909-1960[]
1912- The RMS Titanic sinks
1912- Harding is re-elected CS President
1912- Roosevelt is re-elected for a fourth term
1914- World War 1 begins
1916- Woodrow Wilson is elected CS President
1916- Roosevelt is re-elected for a fifth term
1917- Both the US and CS enter World War 1 as allied powers
1917- John F. Kennedy is born
1919- Theodore Roosevelt dies in office and Vice President Robert M. La Follette becomes President
1919- World War 1 ends in an allied victory
1920- Woodrow Wilson is re-elected President of the CS
1920- James M. Cox is elected President of the US
1924- Calvin Coolidge is elected President of the CS
1924- John W. Davis is elected President of the US
1928- Herbert Hoover is elected President of the CS
1928- John W. Davis is re-elected President of the US
1929- The Great Depression begins in the US
1931- The Great Depression spreads to the CS
1932- Huey Long is elected President of the CS
1932- Franklin Deleno Roosevelt is elected President of the US
1934- Abraham Lincoln becomes a member of the Illinois House of Representatives
1935- Elvis Presley is born
1936- Alf Landon is elected President of the CS
1936- FDR is re-elected President of the US
1939- World War 2 begins
1939- The Wizard of OZ is released
1939- Lee Harvey Oswald is born
1940- Landon is re-elected President of the CS
1940- FDR is re-elected for a third term
1941- Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The US enters WW2 for the Allies
1942- Abraham Lincoln is drafted into the US army
1944- Harold Stassen is elected President of the CS and pulls out of WW2
1944- FDR is re-elected for a fourth term
1945- FDR dies in office, Harry S. Truman becomes President, and WW2 ends
1947- Abraham Lincoln becomes a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 7th district
1947- John F. Kennedy becomes a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 11th district
1948- Former Confederate general Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected President of the CS
1948- Harry S. Truman is re-elected President of the US
1951- The twenty second amendment which limits a President to two terms in the US is ratified
1952- Eisenhower is re-elected President of the CS
1952- Former US General Douglas MacArthur is elected President of the US
1953- John F. Kennedy is elected US Senator from Massachusetts
1956- Eisenhower is re-elected for a third term
1956- MacArthur is re-elected as President of the US
1959- Alaska and Hawaii are admitted into the US
1960- Lyndon B. Johnson is elected President of the CS
1960- Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the US
60's Civil War: 1961-1965[]
1961- The Confederacy is linked to the Cuban Missile crisis and the American Civil War starts
1961- The Battle of Bull Run (or First Manassas), is fought (Confederate victory)
1961- Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri (Union victory)
1962- Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Union victory)
1962- Tennesse succeed from the Confederacy and quickly re-enters the Union
1962- Battle of Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern), Arkansas (Union victory)
1962- The Battle of Seven Pines near Richmond, Virginia (Union victory)
1962- The Battle of Second Bull Run (or Second Manassas) (Confederate victory)
1962- The Battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg), Maryland (Union victory)
1963- The Civil Rights act is passed and is applauded by Civil Rights activists including Martin Luther King
1963- The Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia (Confederate Victory)
1963- The Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (Union Victory)
1963- Mississippi surrenders
1963- Mississippi is admitted back into the Union
1964- Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia (Union victory)
1964- Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia (Confederate victory)
1964- Mistaken for a Union airfighter, the plane carrying the British rock band, The Beatles is shot down. No survivors were found
1964- Richard Nixon is elected President of the CS
1964- Lincoln wins re-election
1965- Attack on Fort Stedman, Petersburg (Union victory)
1965- Richard Nixon flees Virginia
1965- The Battle of Five Forks, Virginia (Union victory)
1965- Richmond falls and Virginia is taken
1965- Battle of Appomattox Court House and Surrender, Appomattox Court House, Virginia (Union victory)
1965- Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald and Kennedy is made President
Aftermath: 1965-Today[]
1965- Lee Harvey Oswald is captured fleeing the country in Dallas, Texas and is arrested
1965- Richard Nixon is caught fleeing the country and on his own terms is exiled to Argentina
1968- Kennedy is re-elected
1968- Elvis makes his comeback special
1972- Robert F. Kennedy is elected President
1973- Lyndon B. Johnson dies of an heart attack
1976- Kennedy is re-elected
1977- After a near death experience Elvis Presley goes to rehab
1980- Ronald Regan is elected President
1983- Elvis is elected mayor of Memphis
1984- Regan is re-elected
1986- Elvis is elected governor of Tennessee
1988- Al Gore is elected President
1992- Al Gore is re-elected
1994- Former Confederate President Richard Nixon dies in exhale
1994- Lee Harvey Oswald dies in prison
1996- Bob Dole is elected President
2000- George W. Bush is elected President
2001- 9/11 attacks occur
2004- George W. Bush is re-elected
2008- Elvis Presley is elected President
2010- The war on terror ends
2011- Osoma Bin Laden is killed
2012- Elvis is re-elected
2016- Joe Biden is elected President