What if the colonies never pursued independence?

alaricus · 5 months

Really hard to say. The American Revolution was more than just money and people that were no longer part of the British Empire. It spawned a lot of thinkers and ideas and spread them out into the world. Without the American Revolution, is there a French Revolution? Without the French Revolution, no Napoleon. What happens to the monarchies of Europe?

The American Revolution is honetly one of the largest and most important wars of the era.

LordZodd · 5 months

Americans would still speak English.

jonsayer · 5 months

The US east coast would have grown up a dominion of the British Empire, possibly part of the same dominion as Canada, the formerly Spanish areas would still be Spanish. Louisiana would be French. The North American map would be very different, and there would not be one dominant power as there is today.

Depending on your point of view, the Spanish may have kept Louisiana because Napoleon wouldn't have conquered them because he never came to power because there was no French Revolution because there was no US Revolution to cause debt in France and an eventual crisis. Maybe.

bloodfyr · 5 months

Provided the rest of history still unfolded the way it did, I'd wager to guess that we would've likely been granted our independence eventually, like Canada and India. We'd probably be in the Commonwealth (though I think we're technically eligible to join now). We would've been present in WWI and WWII from the very beginning like the other British colonies, though I'm not as much of an expert on those two wars to know how much of an effect that would've had.

Mokazra · 5 months

It most likely would have ended up more like the other British colonies of South Africa, India, Hong Kong, etc. They would have held on as long as they could until someone decided to throw their asses out.

n1njapanda · 5 months

The United Provinces of South Canada.

Piratefishy · 5 months

They would probably have developed like Canada and Australia. Both are still technically under the rule of the monarchy, but are constitutionally independant (however, the queen has the right to disband the government, as happened in the 1970s in Australia).

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