Challenge earliest plausible independence for English colonies in americas with a pod after 1607. Double your points if the independent state is a continental confederation of most of the colonies.
Have the Stuarts flee and set up a kingdom-in-exile during the Commonwealth/Protectorate era.
Weren't the colonies pretty anti-Stuart?
Virginia (the most important colony) remained loyal to the Stuarts. In fact, this legacy lives on in the modern day nickname of Virginia: "the Old Dominion State," as Virginia was made a dominion by Charles II for its steadfast loyalty to the House of Stuart.Weren't the colonies pretty anti-Stuart?
I'd say it was a pretty major one. The Colonies started becoming noticeably more restive once they believed that they could more or less defend themselves without aid from the Mother Country.Bottom-line early removal of the French threat could erode some of the common interest between the colonies and mother country, though I don't know if there's a consensus whether that was a necessary and/or sufficient condition for an independence movement.