AHC: Make the US larger then the max size of the British Empire

Without simply taking all of North America and Antiaritca make the USA larger then the British Empire was at it height. Also if possible make as many areas as possible states. It would be nice if the sun would never set on this America.
 
Um Code Geass?
doesn't count since that's not the British Empire or the United States ;)

US annexes all of Canada and Mexico, parts of South America and the Caribbean, the whole Pacific and Southeast Asia (including the Philippines), Japan, and a large portion of West Africa. later on they also get Albania, Sicily, and Poland

:p
 
Without simply taking all of North America and Antiaritca make the USA larger then the British Empire was at it height. Also if possible make as many areas as possible states. It would be nice if the sun would never set on this America.

Ameriwank!!!!!!
 
Have Simon Bolivar move to merge with the US instead of forming Gran Colombia with the Mexican Empire folding into chaos. Have the US annex every country it intervenes in with All Mexico in 1848 and 54' 40" in British Colombia. Get the British to sell all of Canada east of the western tip of Lake Superior and split Canada along Francophile/ Anglophile lines. Roll New Zealand and Australia into the US with much more aggressive expansion in the Pacific along with intervention in South American wars with the US moving slowly down the Pacific and Caribbean coasts. Force the UK and France to sell colonies in exchange for help in World War I. Annex Japan, Taiwan, and most of the Pacific outright after World War II along with Greenland, Iceland, and force the UK to sell parts of her African colonies that we have not already plundered as the price of keeping her Empire alive. Bring South Korea, South Vietnam, and the Philippines in as outright states. Annex any part of Germany we occupy and overrun any remaining Latin American holdouts while industrializing and developing them en masse. USA would be despised by everyone else but at the end of the century USA hold all of North America, South America, Australia, and have some territory in Africa, Europe, and Asia.
 
Have Simon Bolivar move to merge with the US instead of forming Gran Colombia with the Mexican Empire folding into chaos. Have the US annex every country it intervenes in with All Mexico in 1848 and 54' 40" in British Colombia. Get the British to sell all of Canada east of the western tip of Lake Superior and split Canada along Francophile/ Anglophile lines. Roll New Zealand and Australia into the US with much more aggressive expansion in the Pacific along with intervention in South American wars with the US moving slowly down the Pacific and Caribbean coasts. Force the UK and France to sell colonies in exchange for help in World War I. Annex Japan, Taiwan, and most of the Pacific outright after World War II along with Greenland, Iceland, and force the UK to sell parts of her African colonies that we have not already plundered as the price of keeping her Empire alive. Bring South Korea, South Vietnam, and the Philippines in as outright states. Annex any part of Germany we occupy and overrun any remaining Latin American holdouts while industrializing and developing them en masse. USA would be despised by everyone else but at the end of the century USA hold all of North America, South America, Australia, and have some territory in Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Congratulations! you've gone above and beyond the typical Ameriwank and created America as the undisputable hyperpower of the world.
 
decades of darkness.

Perhaps in the future, where I suspect America successfully annexes and/or puppetizes most of Canada.

Without Canada, America would need to effectively take Argentina to be roughly the size of the British Empire (New England as a whole is replaced with the land of British Columbia).
 
I know this is pretty ASB.

Benedict Arnold conquers Quebec in the Revolution, then assists Patriots in Nova Scotia. British North America becomes entirely American after peace is made.

The Northwest Ordinance is able to ban all future slavery, due to Quebecois and Nova Scotian votes, and Thomas Jefferson's insistence.

The South rebels over tariffs. This evolves into a regionalist and slavery supporting war, which the South loses, but because of little industrialization, it lasts just as long as the OTL Civil War. The Union army gains much more military experience this way, also.

A US more tolerant of Catholics conquers all of Mexico instead of just the northern third. Meanwhile, more immigration is received from Catholic countries.

When gold is discovered in California, corporate miners outnumber Anglo individuals who decide to go there to strike it rich. In addition, Mexican miners arrive. Due to the interaction and competition between the four different groups, the richer mining companies are able to keep the Chinese safe. More immigration comes in and there is no Exclusion.

At this point the US has everything from Quebec to Chiapas, except Alaska.

The US launches an expedition to Japan to open up trade like OTL, but establish more of a presence. When Hokkaido secedes, it comes under American control.

Conflict between Spain and the US leads to the US invading their colonies. Cuba and the Philippines are conquered. Cuba becomes loyal, after the slaves are freed. While the Philippines are allowed relative autonomy, and the Chinese there provide an additional pro-American faction.

Haiti and the Dominican Republic either vote to join the US due to economic troubles, or the US invades to liberate the Dominican Republic and conquer Haiti.

The US cooperates with Britain to force the abolishment of slavery in Brazil. Brazil becomes an American satellite.

By now it's the late 19th century. Gold is discovered in Alaska. American settlers flood in. War begins with Russia, and the US invades the Russian Far East--it becomes a US territory.

In the Scramble for Africa, the US supports Liberian interests. Liberia gets into a war with France, and comes under French occupation. Afterward they become a US territory.

By 1900, the US is giant and diverse superpower. Revolutions in corrupt states in Central and South America, and corporate interests, lead to American interventions there. They become US territories and states rather than just puppets, because by now the US is significantly Catholic and mestizo.

The Qing dynasty begins to fall apart. The Chinese American community begins to lobby for the support of Chinese Republicans. With bases in Hokkaido and the Russian Far East the US invades southward, and from the sea. The Manchus are punished and made into a protectorate. Korea, Taiwan, and Hainan become territories. While the mainland is a US ally.

In Europe, a Great War occurs. The US supports Britain and France against Germany and gains Namibia and some Pacific colony.

The disruption of global trade caused by the Great War, in combination with a stock market crash, leads to a global economic depression. To distract the public from economic issues, the administration engages in militarist expansion elsewhere. A war of "liberation" is waged against the remaining states in South America and Japan, many of which are kingdoms or dictatorships. Since the US has evolved into a tolerant, partially Hispanic and Chinese nation, this is successful.

But this is alarming to the powers of Europe, who see the US as a severe disruption to the global balance of power--and the kingdoms of Europe see it as a disruption of their conservative rule. A European coalition invades the US aims to force them to release recently conquered nations.

But the great powers fail to notice the rising of communists or pseudo-fascists in Germany and Russia, who proceed to invade outward with ideas of irredentism. As a result the European invasion is repelled. And by now the economic hard times are over.

While Europeans kill each other, and emigrants from the continent arrive in the US, the US conquers European colonies in Africa and the Pacific.

By 1950, the US owns the Americas, most of Africa, Oceania, most of Indonesia, all of the Pacific including one mainland area Korea, and the Russian Far East.
 
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Bring South Korea, South Vietnam, and the Philippines in as outright states.
Is it plausible for these to become states? Territories, certainly, but I imagine the American people would be hesitant to make them states. However, several Canadian, Australian, and NZ states would be accepted without much controversy.
 
In all these Ameriwank scenarios I always wonder "why must the US conquer Canada"? Wouldn't it be easier to have Canada join the US during the ARW? Just make the Colonials a little more competent, the British a little less competent, and (this part is the hardest to justify) the British a bit more in the "wrong" and I could see "Canada" joining the rest of the Colonies to form the US.
This has an added benefit of weakening the slave states so you could make it easier to have the US expand into the French/Spanish part of North America. A more aggressive US that feels safer (there is no northern border after all) that wants to equal the slave to free state ratio could be a "good" thing in this scenario (but shitty in real life).
Or you could go the opposite route. With less slave states slavery dies a quicker natural death. It makes the US more appealing so when the Spanish colonies fall apart or whatever happens after Napoleon comes into power the US is able to peacefully add more territory.
 
No war of independence, the invention of telegraph earlier leading to imperial federation UK wins all of Spanish and French colonies in NA and the far east. Republican revolution throughout the empire started in NA in early 1900's with support from UK Republican capital moved to NA. The entire empire is now ruled from New York as a federation of states.
Perhaps this post should be ASB.
 
Have Simon Bolivar move to merge with the US instead of forming Gran Colombia with the Mexican Empire folding into chaos. Have the US annex every country it intervenes in with All Mexico in 1848 and 54' 40" in British Colombia. Get the British to sell all of Canada east of the western tip of Lake Superior and split Canada along Francophile/ Anglophile lines. Roll New Zealand and Australia into the US with much more aggressive expansion in the Pacific along with intervention in South American wars with the US moving slowly down the Pacific and Caribbean coasts. Force the UK and France to sell colonies in exchange for help in World War I. Annex Japan, Taiwan, and most of the Pacific outright after World War II along with Greenland, Iceland, and force the UK to sell parts of her African colonies that we have not already plundered as the price of keeping her Empire alive. Bring South Korea, South Vietnam, and the Philippines in as outright states. Annex any part of Germany we occupy and overrun any remaining Latin American holdouts while industrializing and developing them en masse. USA would be despised by everyone else but at the end of the century USA hold all of North America, South America, Australia, and have some territory in Africa, Europe, and Asia.

This. Also, if this hyper-USA lasted for only one day, it still counts, because the OP never specified how long the mammoth USA should last.
 
The British never become a superpower. They remain only a island nation after losing to the Spanish armada.

The Dutch and Spanish territories unite to become a republic.

Done.
 
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