AHC: Earliest United States

Basically the challenge is what it says on the tin, how early can we get the United States to form. For our purposes we will describe the United States as: a nation formed from an alliance of provinces spanning most of North America's east coast, this nation has to successfully win its independence from a European nation (preferably but not necessarily Britain), embrace a republican form of government, and have a population of about 2 million people (USA's approximate population at the time of her independence). We'll say that the POD can be at any time after January 1, 1500.

For me I think that the biggest problem with an earlier USA is the presence of other empires on the continent, I've always felt that the Americans wouldn't have dared to fight the British if they had a border with any other empire.

As for how I would get the ball rolling, maybe have a successful Roanoke would get the ball rolling on colonization almost 20 years before OTL.
 
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