An expanded American Revolution?

Could it be possible that American Revolution could have been expanded into New Spain and/or Brit Canada?
If yes, how could have been configured an expanded first United States which more Hispanic population than Brittish? The federal city could have been New Orleans then? Indian territories could have lasted more time this way or just the opposite? Could such a big federation have worked fine or it would have probably wrecked at some time? Would slavery have been abolished sooner or just the opposite?
 
Up into Canada is possible with earlier British policies which piss off the Francophonic population. New Spain is absolutely impossible though- the distance is the equivilent of asking if the Spanish Civil War could see the Soviet military attempt to take over the USSR.

You could have copycat rebellions in New Spain afterwards, but then there kind of were anyway, albeit shaped greatly by Spanish policies and earlier rebellions.
 
Up into Canada is possible with earlier British policies which piss off the Francophonic population. New Spain is absolutely impossible though- the distance is the equivilent of asking if the Spanish Civil War could see the Soviet military attempt to take over the USSR.

You could have copycat rebellions in New Spain afterwards, but then there kind of were anyway, albeit shaped greatly by Spanish policies and earlier rebellions.

And what about the 1768 rebellion in Spanish Louisiana becoming an American Revolution spreading into the Brit colonies? And being involved Francophones would also have its echo also in Canada...
 
And what about the 1768 rebellion in Spanish Louisiana becoming an American Revolution spreading into the Brit colonies? And being involved Francophones would also have its echo also in Canada...


Not sure why. The issues between the colonies and the homeland were different in all three areas so them rebelling just because the other colonies were doing it doenst make much sense.

The tensions in British America took quite a while to build up.
 
And what about the 1768 rebellion in Spanish Louisiana becoming an American Revolution spreading into the Brit colonies? And being involved Francophones would also have its echo also in Canada...

There already were riots in 1768 as a result of the Townhend Acts. They didn't go anywhere.
 
The reality is that the American Revolution was an undeclared world war. How do you expand from that?

My idea is to extend the rebellion to the other North American colonies (Canada and New Spain) maybe by imitation or maybe by a different origin of the riots that could explain a more widespread rebellion of the colonies against all the European powers present in North America by the XVIII century.

What I wanted to figure is how the US would look like if it would have been based not only in the former British colonies, but also in the French and Spanish at the same time.
Something like a new kind of US based on New Orleans encompassing a larger territory including English-speaking states (New York etc.), French-speaking states (Labrador and Louisiana) and Spanish-speaking states (Mexico etc.); and probably more (and more respected) Indian territories depending on the federal gov, but with great autonomy.
 
You might get other rebellions, but there's pretty much no way that they'd unite together. Distance is too great, population too low over most of it, and quite simply the British would find the Spanish far too foreign and Catholic to even dream of being part of the same nation on an equal basis.

Heck, New Spain fell apart due to cultural differences and distance and that was a single Spanish colony, ditto Gran Colombia and the UPCA.
 
You might get other rebellions, but there's pretty much no way that they'd unite together. Distance is too great, population too low over most of it, and quite simply the British would find the Spanish far too foreign and Catholic to even dream of being part of the same nation on an equal basis.

Heck, New Spain fell apart due to cultural differences and distance and that was a single Spanish colony, ditto Gran Colombia and the UPCA.

Well, maybe they could feel forced if Spain would have acquired all Louisiana (West and East) in 1763, because the colonies would have been too isolated in a widely Spanish North America.
British Americans were very pragmatic. And about religion...by that time there were many Catholics (Irish) in the colonies, so not a big deal.
I agree that the main problem here is to stick together considering big distances and low population densities.
 
Well, maybe they could feel forced if Spain would have acquired all Louisiana (West and East) in 1763, because the colonies would have been too isolated in a widely Spanish North America.
British Americans were very pragmatic. And about religion...by that time there were many Catholics (Irish) in the colonies, so not a big deal.
I agree that the main problem here is to stick together considering big distances and low population densities.

If the whole of Louisiana is Spanish, then there's still an enemy right on the Appalachians and the colonies are much less likely to be rebelling full stop.

And yes, there some Irish (though nowhere near as many as later). They were frequently discriminated against by the Protestant establishment, except in Maryland.
 
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