Alternate states and location names in fully anglocentric US

The USA have many locations with spanish names, like New Mexico, las Vegas, Los Angeles, the colorado River, there is also some native american and french influence like Lousiana and Montana

So here my question: Which alternate names could be given to those regions if the US government had decided to anglify all the names of the conquered regions, or simple simple them to english, like calling "Los angeles" as "The angels" or something
 
I'm not sure-you'd need less Spanish settlement to be sure or a government with more commitment to Anglo Saxon superiority ideas.

San Franscico could be anglicized to Saint Francis?

Los Angeles- Angelic City?
 

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Maybe if the Texan annexation and Mexican cession didn't happen until 1870s or 1880s, with that late 19th-century nationalism leading to new names being assigned.

Later cession would also lead to fewer wars with native Americans by the US, since many of the native tribes would be in Mexican territory and fighting with Mexico instead. So when areas like Texas are finally annexed, they might be given names like Comanche.

Or perhaps (with Mexican Cession in 1848 like OTL) Mormonism grows much more quickly than it did historically, for whatever reason. The LDS church becomes the dominant factor in all southwestern territories, and settlers give new names to the territories based on their religious ideas.
 
The USA have many locations with spanish names, like New Mexico, las Vegas, Los Angeles, the colorado River, there is also some native american and french influence like Lousiana and Montana

So here my question: Which alternate names could be given to those regions if the US government had decided to anglify all the names of the conquered regions, or simple simple them to english, like calling "Los angeles" as "The angels" or something

There are also many states named after Indian tribes.
 
Which ones? And which anglified names could they have?

Mississippi is named after the river, which in turn is an indigenous term for "great river".

Illinois is the gallicized form of an Algonquin word.

Missouri, Iowa, Utah, and the Dakotas were named after tribes.

They could alternatively have been named after Founders or Revolutionary War battles.
 
A whole bunch of states west of the Appalachian mountains have indigenous names. Basically, if the name doesn't seem to mean anything in English, it probably is native. ;)
 
Frankly, you'd have to begin at the colonial beginning: say, by having the English simply anglicize everything they thought they heard from the actual, er, inhabitants.

E.g., the bay between Virginia and the Eastern Shore is, ITL, (wait for it) Chesil Peak Bay.
 
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