Britain gains Louisiana & Florida

It's certainly possible that Britain could attract enough settlers. would they allow industry?

If we're using the Canadian example, they won't disallow it, but there will be such a shortage of capital in the initial years that it will decades before it makes any headway.

Much of Louisiana probably gets settled even faster than Canada, with the natural waterway of the Mississippi at their disposal farmers can get their goods to market much easier than Upper Canadian farmers could (which wasn't really attached to the global economy for much of its early years).
 
If we're using the Canadian example, they won't disallow it, but there will be such a shortage of capital in the initial years that it will decades before it makes any headway.

Much of Louisiana probably gets settled even faster than Canada, with the natural waterway of the Mississippi at their disposal farmers can get their goods to market much easier than Upper Canadian farmers could (which wasn't really attached to the global economy for much of its early years).

To be honest, I half expect that the crown would intercede with lending institutions in the UK, and encourage them to invest in Louisiana over the US, simply because of how obvious the US is as a threat to their colonies now. They may grumble, but increased capital and liquidity will be ++good for the UK, and --bad for the US, since by this point the US had been using it a huge amount.

In fact, that may encourage US settlers to become British Settlers, since it would be easier to borrow money.
 
A question I would like to ask is, were there enough Francophone settlers in Louisiana to demand a Quebec-like deal? Obviously there aren't enough over the whole territory, but in the lower reaches of the Mississippi? And where might the border between such a province and the rest of the colony be drawn? One wonders if there might later be some sort of über-Canada, or multiple dominions in North America.
 
How might the existence of a clear, powerful external foe affect American society, politics? More centralization? What about the whole slavery thing?
 
How might the existence of a clear, powerful external foe affect American society, politics? More centralization? What about the whole slavery thing?

I would say that the existence of a big continental power in North America blocking US expansion to the left bank of the Mississippi is far more decisive than the friendly or hostile character of this big power.

It does just butterfly away what was the main incentive for european migrants to keep flowing to the US : opportunity for all to have "free capital". The "free capital" would be spread on "only" 2.5 million square kilometers instead of 9.6 million. So many european migrants will directly go to the place where there are bigger opportunities.

This means the US will remain an american atlantic power.

This also means that such a US will never be able to proclaim (less even implement) its OTL Monroe doctrine.

This means there may come a time, by the late 19th century, where a strong socialist movement may emerge as the question of social inequality and poverty can not find a solution in the pursuit of the frontier.

This means a Lincoln-like character will probably never be able to prevent secession of the southern States if they want to and that the US will not be able to take the path of building a big federal government (It took decades but North victory in the civil war was a prerequisite).
 
I predict that Britain would sell the land below the 40th parallel to Murica shortly after the war of 1812 and the land above that would be managed as part of Canada
 
A question I would like to ask is, were there enough Francophone settlers in Louisiana to demand a Quebec-like deal? Obviously there aren't enough over the whole territory, but in the lower reaches of the Mississippi? And where might the border between such a province and the rest of the colony be drawn? One wonders if there might later be some sort of über-Canada, or multiple dominions in North America.

The present-day state of Louisiana's borders were drawn essentially to contain all of the francophone population (aside from the community at St. Louis). In 1800 there were approximately 60,000 settlers - half of them white and the other half slaves. This population was then swelled by a wave of refugees from the newly independent Haiti.
 
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