Colonization Attempts on US East Coast Fail

Just a thought I had, but how would the settlement of North America look like if attempts to settle the Eastern Seaboard for one reason or another failed? The Native Confederacies were able to boot out the settlers, the settlers starved, other colonial powers massacred each other, etcetc.

That would leave the major wave of settlement to come up through the South, the Mississippi and the Gulf Coast river deltas. Would England contest for these areas or would English settlers go through private immigration?
 
You'd need an impressive amount of authorial fiat to have all attempts fail. New England alone had a number of independent investor-funded colonies, and I doubt Virginia would go untouched even if the Powhatan pulled a one-off victory against Jamestown. The English had both the people and the investors to continuously try for private colonies...

More than any other setter territory, with perhaps the exception of South Africa, the northeastern seaboard of North America was favorable for colonization. Close to home, utterly fucked by disease, and divided between tribes that could easily be exploited by settlers. Not to mention the colder parts have less malaria and whatnot than, say, the South.
 
You could have Jamestown and Plymouth fail for whatever reasons but England or some other European country interested in establishing colonies will successfully plant colonies in the eastern seaboard.
 
Hell, you could have the natives win both the Powhatan wars AND King Philip's War, but that'll just motivate the English to retaliate, given they had the means to send more folks across the water (unlike the other colonial powers -- only Portugal matched the sheer number of emigrants). Any native victory, given the disease and their own divisions and geopolitical aims, would be Pyrrhic and shortlived.
 
Not to mention the colder parts have less malaria and whatnot than, say, the South.

Actually I was thinking about another option. Namely a Super-Tick Lyme Disease that keeps out the Europeans in a somewhat similar fashion to Malaria/Mosquitos in Africa and Tropical South America. Then that would take out my Louisiana idea and drive the TL more toward preventing or delaying any major colonization.
 
Isn't the biology necessary for super-ticks kinda ASB (as in that's where the biology/geology PoDs go?)

Usually, but I'm not talking about an invincible killing machine. Just one that proves deadly to the colonized for reasonable lack of immunity. At least until Penacilian and Pesticide practices. Similar to the TLs that focus on an form of an edible plant being more edible than OTL and agricultural civilizations developing around it in Australia and the Pacific Northwest.
 
Usually, but I'm not talking about an invincible killing machine. Just one that proves deadly to the colonized for reasonable lack of immunity. At least until Penacilian and Pesticide practices. Similar to the TLs that focus on an form of an edible plant being more edible than OTL and agricultural civilizations developing around it in Australia and the Pacific Northwest.
Nowadays those TLs all go to ASB.
 
I think the only real (non-ASB) way to have all the colonization efforts fail is to somehow have ALL western European powers accept the treaty of tordesillas, meaning that Spain is the only power attempting to colonize the region.

For this you might need to have a hapsburg England (Mary and phillip have a son) and no dutch revolt. Then the French would be the only power able to challenge Spain....
 
Spain could colonise the East Coast. To some extent they already tried that. And as I pointed out in a previous thread, they could find the gold in Georgia. It's just the East Coast will be far more sparsely populated with the main centers of colonisation in Louisiana and the Southeast. At some point, if a state forms from this, they could do what Argentina did in Patagonia and incorporate those lands by force. Personally, though, I think filibusters or some other group would take the East Coast and their main enemy would be the natives than anyone else.

And would Tordesillas even stop all colonisation? What might stop a private individual from going to those lands and then legitimising their claim by getting the King of Spain's permission to settle there?
 
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