Alternate Independence of Colonial America

Let's suppose that the POD is that the Cromwell's Commonwealth survives and becomes more or less an aristocratic republic.

The British colonies of America are:
a) New England colonies that either exist individually or are joined in one large colony,
b) Maryland (includes parts Pennsylvania) and
c) Virginia (it comprises part of the Carolinas).
Or at least the ones existing at 1660.

What differences between the metropolis and colonies would exist?
What path would american independence follow? if it any. Thought I thinK an independence is inevitable in the long run.
 
Or the monarch might ecape to the colonies and they become independent by defacto because they're home to the crown.
 
Or the monarch might ecape to the colonies and they become independent by defacto because they're home to the crown.
Very unlikely. As far as I know Charles II was more interest to be nearer the British Isles and land on a successful uprising in Scotland or Ireland. The whole idea of a government in exile did not exist in the 17th century, the King resided or returned to the Kingdom's capital.

The New England colonies were very keen and enthusiastic in their support of Parliament even some returning and enlisting in the Army against the King. Maryland and Virginia had local civil wars between royalist and parliamentarians.

Besides Cromwell and Parliament gave degrees of autonomy to the American Colonies, save for the Navigation Acts that were a constant complain and resentfulness. Contraband was the way they trying to around them.
 
Or let's put it in another way (starting from the first post)

New England keeps its process of semi-industrial economy at odds with the British Isles and the Navigation Act
Virginia and Maryland reaming as agricultural export economies of commodities such as sugar, tobacco and cotton.
All three maintain their elected legislature and in some cases elected governor.

What would follow?
 
If Cromwell's republic endures, the actual cause of American disaffection is removed. The British elite held the colonies in contempt. A government and ruling class that began as a Puritan republic would feel more kinship to their American colonies.
 
If Cromwell's republic endures, the actual cause of American disaffection is removed. The British elite held the colonies in contempt. A government and ruling class that began as a Puritan republic would feel more kinship to their American colonies.

More colonial self government?
And the Navigation Acts? Although they were meant to curb Dutch commerce and disrupt trade with New Netherlands I think English interests to keep them would still be in place.
 
More colonial self government?
And the Navigation Acts? Although they were meant to curb Dutch commerce and disrupt trade with New Netherlands I think English interests to keep them would still be in place.
The Navigation Acts weren't the big problem. The colonies accepted that Parliament had the right to regulate imperial trade. Taxes for that purpose might be disliked but were legitimate. Taxes imposed on the colonies to raise revenue were the constitutional issue. The other concern was exploitation. America didn't want to be Ireland, a possession that was squeezed for the benefit of London. This is much less likely if there is more commonality between London and America.
 
The Navigation Acts weren't the big problem. The colonies accepted that Parliament had the right to regulate imperial trade. Taxes for that purpose might be disliked but were legitimate. Taxes imposed on the colonies to raise revenue were the constitutional issue. The other concern was exploitation. America didn't want to be Ireland, a possession that was squeezed for the benefit of London. This is much less likely if there is more commonality between London and America.

The enforcement of the openly flouted navigation acts were exactly the mechanism of Irish-style exploitation they worried about.
 
Very unlikely. As far as I know Charles II was more interest to be nearer the British Isles and land on a successful uprising in Scotland or Ireland. The whole idea of a government in exile did not exist in the 17th century, the King resided or returned to the Kingdom's capital.

The New England colonies were very keen and enthusiastic in their support of Parliament even some returning and enlisting in the Army against the King. Maryland and Virginia had local civil wars between royalist and parliamentarians.

Besides Cromwell and Parliament gave degrees of autonomy to the American Colonies, save for the Navigation Acts that were a constant complain and resentfulness. Contraband was the way they trying to around them.

A much forgotten cause of American scepticism of British rule was a New England paranoia that the British Anglicanism would lapse back into Catholicism and reconvert America. This logic was waning by the late 1700s and wasn't held by the Founding Fathers themselves, but it certainly set an emotional tone of aggressive autonomy that was tapped into. And the fear of being pincered in by an expanded Quebec came directly from this strain of thinking. A more fiercely low church Protestantism from England is likely to prevent a lot of this feeling.
 
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