A strange question/challenge

Alright, so here's my question/challenge.
Alright, let's say Britain passes the "Quebec Act" in 1774. When the revolution comes around, Quebec joins in, et cetera.
Let's also assume a similar to OTL USA forms.

My question/challenge is that they don't ever expand past the mississippi, or out of north america.

the POD is an alternate Quebec Act (passed by George III under the influence of Anti-Catholic MPs) that reaffirmed the second-class citizenship of French Catholics.
 
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So, basically, make this:
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the maximum extent of the US of A.

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Perhaps some scenario where the Americans attempt another War of 1812 which goes horribly wrong for them? Maybe, say, they attempt to invade Newfoundland using mainly Quebecois militia, only to realise after declaring war that the Quebecois, being very Francophile, aren't interested in participating in American politics, having joined the Union primarily to take advantage of the chance to be ruled by a weaker government, and thus one more likely to give them full autonomy. The Americans press on with a totally understrength attack while raising more troops, their assault is quickly repulsed and the British have the time they need to move more troops to defeat the follow-up, a la RL except being in a stronger defensive position when the real American invasion starts. The US force is annihilated from the start, never has the chance to burn down York (Toronto) and the British push down and recreate the burning of Philadelphia. With fewer Americans in their path, part of the OTL force splits off to join an earlier assault on New Orleans. The city falls earlier and a peace treaty sees the Americans agree to cede the Louisiana purchase in exchange for being let off much lighter than they could otherwise have been punished. The British use the Louisiana territory largely to form their Indian Reserves, allowing native tribes to retreat to much more spacious homelands when disinherited by the USA, in a more idyllic (from the British perspective) enacting of the First Nations principle - they had, after all, wanted to prevent American expansion westwards in order to protect the natives' rights to own and control large tracts of land as their rightful homeland.

Just a quick idea off the top of my head. Of course, your scenario does make the Hudson's Bay Company's existence tenuous at best. It would be very easy for the USA to cut off its supply lines and essentially economically strangle it into vacating the territory, if they can't trade eastwards...
 
But... the Quebec Act was favorable to Quebec. It gave them what amounted to autonomy. It angered the Thirteen Colonies because it seemed as if the Crown was tolerating "evil Papists". Remember, these are evangelical times, I think the First Great Awakening is either closing or still going strong.
 

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But... the Quebec Act was favorable to Quebec. It gave them what amounted to autonomy. It angered the Thirteen Colonies because it seemed as if the Crown was tolerating "evil Papists". Remember, these are evangelical times, I think the First Great Awakening is either closing or still going strong.

Well, it's partly religious, but it's more that it restricted Anglo settlement in the lands assigned to Quebec (which included all the way down to Michigan).
 
Should Falastur's ideas happen, one could perhaps see the development of two Canadian states under British control (well, far more so than was the case in OTL).

Newfoundland would possibly expand to fill up New Brunswick, King Edward Island etc for reasons of sercurity from the Yankee threat, perhaps even becoming more populated to stave off the threat of invasion from three sides.

Like Falastur says, the Hudson Bay Company would perhaps be minded to expand far more to the South than to the West as well as a means of increasing the territory to the east of the enlarged United States, perhaps even reaching as far as Louisiana if enough immigrants are forthcoming.

To be honest, one could also see weaker Franco-American relations in this timeline, if the Quebecois become influential within American political and economic life then a movement within Louisiana to unite with the United States could also occur, France may be more willing to hold onto its territory in the America's in that case. Obviously, this will have a massive effect on the development of both nations.
 
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