1849 AD: Zachary Taylor offers Abraham Lincoln governership of the quickly growing Oregon Territory. Though his common sense, and his wife tell him no, he sees an opportunity to lead an important frontier territory, and takes the job. After his term as governor is up, he and his family, now settled and content decide to remain here, while Lincoln practices law for the forseeable future. Later, on the east coast, without the firm hand of Lincoln to guide the Union through the Civil War, the Union lost the Battle of Antietam, thus giving the Confederacy the support of the British Crown. The Union was now in the hands of "Union or Die" politicians, who threw all they had at the Confederacy, and lost. 1869 AD: The Union is history. The Confederacy controls all land from the Carolinas, to Flori