America Western Border at Appalachian Mountains

In the Treaty of 1783 the Americans got all the lands east of the Missippie river, south of the Great Lakes, and north of Florida. The Americans were shocked at getting this much land. The British were hoping to get friendly with the new nation and turn them away from the French. The POD is that the Americans only wanted to deal with French. This makes the British mad and hoping to retake the colonies at a later date only gives them the land east of the Appalachian mountains and not much else.

What would happen next? I'm sure the Americans would at first be happy for getting their independence, but would soon want to settle more lands. Would the Americans get the land at a later date. Do they never get it and makes them a much weaker country? Do they go closer to the French? What about Slavery? What are the fates of Louisiana, Oregon, Texas, California, and Alaska.
 
If they didn't own Louisiana, America wouldn't be in much of a situation to expand westward, no matter how much theu actually want too. They could potentially try to buy land off of people, but they would have to build up a good amount to buy anything worthwhile.
 
even if louisiana wasn't theirs, there already were colonialists from the United States who were expanding into the territory.
It would be quite a task, therefore, for nations other than the United States to control that far a territory.
 
The USA did not own Missouri or Texas and many other western lands yet they had people settling them. Americans would have went west. There might have been wars. The Federal government may have became more military inclined if they had to fight a few more wars. But i think Britian would have sold the land to pay their war debts. It would have taken a lot of effort by a lot of different countries to stop the settlements.
 
The Appalachians are not a feasible boundary. They will be defacto American and there is nothing anyone can do to stop them from settling those lands. As long as Spain controls the Mississippi, the British would have little way of projecting power into those lands anyway now that they've lost the Atlantic coast. There's a reason they ceded that territory. The British keeping parts of the Northwest territory is possible, lands to the south of that, not as much.
 
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