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I'm plotting out a general idea of a larger USA, and was wondering if some folks on this board could help me figure out how it gets settled and which cities would grow to become the largest, and when places would become states.

For example, assume Ottawa (Ontario Peninsula) joins the Union in 1801. Cities include Ottawa, Gorham (Toronto), Berlin (Kitchener) (a majority German-settled town), Jackson (London), Aix-en-St-Lawrence (Windsor), Niagara (St Catharine's-Niagara), Oshawa, Harrison (Barrie), Kingston, Crawford (Guelph).

Nova Scotia (New Brunswick, PEI, Nova Scotia) joined the Union during the Revolution; Quebec likewise, with the difference that it was populated by Huguenots, not Catholics, so there is no anti-Catholicism involved.

How would these three states develop in the US? What would their politics be like?

Later, the US gets Rupert's Land, Louisiana, and the Mexican Cession which included Rio Grande, Baja California, Sonora, and Chihuahua. Assuming territorial status and statehood for the plains and northern plains, how would a state, say, Columbia, develop if it became a state in 1870?
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