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Orange: English-official states

Green: French Official States

Light Green: Territories that use French in administration

Grey: Other countries

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Basically, I started with "what if the Americans got Quebec to join the revolution, maybe no Quebec Act?". But then, being a much smaller minority in the USA than in Canada, how would they keep their French language?

The French decide to take the English route of sending limited numbers of religious dissidents to the North American Colonies, which leads to an increased presence down the Saint Lawrence Valley as Huguenots are permitted to move there as well as Catholics. The population densities seen along the Saint Lawrence in OTL modern Quebec continue on down to Lake Ontario. OTL Missouri and West Tennessee also start seeing more substantial French presence in the Louisiana colony as they are far enough north to be somewhat less miserable but aren't too terribly far up river from the port of La Nouvelle-Orléans. The southern areas in between start settling, but more slowly as a slower trickle of farmers starts tilling the fertile earth with plantations springing up on the best land.

Plymouth Colony was never lumped into Massachusetts Bay, so now exists as Rhode Island's marginally bigger, seafaring brother.

Despite this increased presence, the British still win the French and Indian War due to the global nature of the Seven Years' War helping make up for scraping out a narrow win in North America. A less generous Quebec Act (or not giving up on the "force the French folk to shut up and accept us as their rulers" methods) lead to stronger resentment in Lower and Upper Canada so when 13 Atlantic Colonies rebel, they join in. (IMO, while the OTL Quebec Act helped inflame the colonists anger, the other grievances were enough to still push them over the edge.) After the dust settles, Britain has retained Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Labrador, and the Canadiens secured the constitutional guarantee that states may choose to operate in English or French and use French civil law. (or at least a veneer of it similar to how Louisiana OTL is slightly distinct in matters of civil law). In this alt-constitutional convention, the representatives from the slave states and the French states ally (totally not to cast a butterfly net with the aim of keeping enough parallel to US history that the map has recognizable shapes and the Autor isn’t writing 200 years of history from scratch in between exams.) in order to keep their minority interests safe from the majority. Thus, when a vote on including a ban on slavery was tallied, Québec and Canada protected the slave states while banning the practice themselves. Later on, the representatives from Virginia and South Carolina would loudly demand that a state’s right to choose to govern in English or French be included.

Looking west, by the time Louisiana is returned to France, the residents are no longer particularly loyal to the motherland which had traded them away in a war treaty and overthrew the king that being so far away, they hadn’t had much resentment toward. This works out quite well when the land is turned around and sold to the Americans. Some communities are resistant, but pacified by promises of self-elected governance, the ability to have self-governing states to set the rules before eastern settlers start passing through or arriving to stay, and assurances from the former Québec Senator and now President Fournier that in his own region the Anglos hadn’t destroyed the Francos (as the two language groups came to be called).

This POD doesn’t reduce the population in the Eastern American South, which would push higher numbers of settlers at an earlier date into modern Texas because the Mississippi region is already being farmed and a lot of settlers don’t want to learn a new language to fit in to their new town. The British tried to hold on to Rupert' Land and their claims to Oregon as best they could, but with no easy access, and the example of the settler takeover of Texas, they sold the land at a steep price to the Americans rather than try to deal with those issues, a deal which the American were willing to accept since trying to take on the British Empire would be a different story than Mexico. Cuba is a state due to the OTL attempts to buy the territory, which are successful ATL (no Ostend manifesto for sure). In addition, when a later war over the US-Mexico border in Texas leads to another US victory, the American diplomats are still sent with instructions to gain a massive chunk of land- orders which are still not fully adhered to as in OTL, but these diplomats still gain any near-uninhabited land with ore mines they can grab which leads to a larger Southwest.

Maine is still part of Massachusetts, albeit with a periodic push to break off that so far has been stalled either at the state level or in the US Congress. A large part of this is that the War of 1812, which otl broke the camel's back with regards to loyalty to Boston, is either butterflied away or British forces will focus harder on Québec and the river valley rather than try to invade the east coast. Upstate New York seceded, everywhere north of Putnam and Orange counties seceding to become the State of Adirondack in the late 70's.

The most recent state admitted is Samoa, which made the leap from territory to state in 2001 to be the 64th state of the Union.

Description

Orange: English-official states

Green: French Official States

Light Green: Territories that use French in administration

Grey: Other countries

State Names Here:

www.deviantart.com/jakebakesna…

Basically, I started with "what if the Americans got Quebec to join the revolution, maybe no Quebec Act?". But then, being a much smaller minority in the USA than in Canada, how would they keep their French language?

The French decide to take the English route of sending limited numbers of religious dissidents to the North American Colonies, which leads to an increased presence down the Saint Lawrence Valley as Huguenots are permitted to move there as well as Catholics. The population densities seen along the Saint Lawrence in OTL modern Quebec continue on down to Lake Ontario. OTL Missouri and West Tennessee also start seeing more substantial French presence in the Louisiana colony as they are far enough north to be somewhat less miserable but aren't too terribly far up river from the port of La Nouvelle-Orléans. The southern areas in between start settling, but more slowly as a slower trickle of farmers starts tilling the fertile earth with plantations springing up on the best land.

Plymouth Colony was never lumped into Massachusetts Bay, so now exists as Rhode Island's marginally bigger, seafaring brother.

Despite this increased presence, the British still win the French and Indian War due to the global nature of the Seven Years' War helping make up for scraping out a narrow win in North America. A less generous Quebec Act (or not giving up on the "force the French folk to shut up and accept us as their rulers" methods) lead to stronger resentment in Lower and Upper Canada so when 13 Atlantic Colonies rebel, they join in. (IMO, while the OTL Quebec Act helped inflame the colonists anger, the other grievances were enough to still push them over the edge.) After the dust settles, Britain has retained Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Labrador, and the Canadiens secured the constitutional guarantee that states may choose to operate in English or French and use French civil law. (or at least a veneer of it similar to how Louisiana OTL is slightly distinct in matters of civil law). In this alt-constitutional convention, the representatives from the slave states and the French states ally (totally not to cast a butterfly net with the aim of keeping enough parallel to US history that the map has recognizable shapes and the Autor isn’t writing 200 years of history from scratch in between exams.) in order to keep their minority interests safe from the majority. Thus, when a vote on including a ban on slavery was tallied, Québec and Canada protected the slave states while banning the practice themselves. Later on, the representatives from Virginia and South Carolina would loudly demand that a state’s right to choose to govern in English or French be included.

Looking west, by the time Louisiana is returned to France, the residents are no longer particularly loyal to the motherland which had traded them away in a war treaty and overthrew the king that being so far away, they hadn’t had much resentment toward. This works out quite well when the land is turned around and sold to the Americans. Some communities are resistant, but pacified by promises of self-elected governance, the ability to have self-governing states to set the rules before eastern settlers start passing through or arriving to stay, and assurances from the former Québec Senator and now President Fournier that in his own region the Anglos hadn’t destroyed the Francos (as the two language groups came to be called).

This POD doesn’t reduce the population in the Eastern American South, which would push higher numbers of settlers at an earlier date into modern Texas because the Mississippi region is already being farmed and a lot of settlers don’t want to learn a new language to fit in to their new town. The British tried to hold on to Rupert' Land and their claims to Oregon as best they could, but with no easy access, and the example of the settler takeover of Texas, they sold the land at a steep price to the Americans rather than try to deal with those issues, a deal which the American were willing to accept since trying to take on the British Empire would be a different story than Mexico. Cuba is a state due to the OTL attempts to buy the territory, which are successful ATL (no Ostend manifesto for sure). In addition, when a later war over the US-Mexico border in Texas leads to another US victory, the American diplomats are still sent with instructions to gain a massive chunk of land- orders which are still not fully adhered to as in OTL, but these diplomats still gain any near-uninhabited land with ore mines they can grab which leads to a larger Southwest.

Maine is still part of Massachusetts, albeit with a periodic push to break off that so far has been stalled either at the state level or in the US Congress. A large part of this is that the War of 1812, which otl broke the camel's back with regards to loyalty to Boston, is either butterflied away or British forces will focus harder on Québec and the river valley rather than try to invade the east coast. Upstate New York seceded, everywhere north of Putnam and Orange counties seceding to become the State of Adirondack in the late 70's.

The most recent state admitted is Samoa, which made the leap from territory to state in 2001 to be the 64th state of the Union.