How does North America develop without the United States?

Supposing the American Revolution is deferred by acceptance of the Galloway Plan by the First Continental Congress in 1774, how would North America develop? Would new colonies arise in Transylvania, Vandalia, Ohio, and West Florida among other locales? And would there be additional attempts at independence later on?
 
Instead one single independent movement there would be serveral and they might only be successful depending on how the homecountry is faring at the moment.

Without a separate USA spain might be willing to give up on Mexico earlier or try to hold into it harder its hard to say.

I've considered something similar. How would Europe develop without a single country to pour immigrants into?
 
Supposing the American Revolution is deferred by acceptance of the Galloway Plan by the First Continental Congress in 1774, how would North America develop? Would new colonies arise in Transylvania, Vandalia, Ohio, and West Florida among other locales? And would there be additional attempts at independence later on?

The colonial secretary, Lord Dartmouth, was apparently considering plans for new colonies in the Ohio Valley and along the Mississippi in 1773, so I'd imagine so. I'd also imagine so on both questions.
 
I remember hearing that Winston Churchill postulated that no American Revolution (or an abortive one) could lead to the diehards fleeing West and establishing *Boer style republics. Of course that would require the situation in Louisiana to change, though being sympathetic, Paris might be keen on bringing them in to boost the colony, eventually leading to independent states.

Illinois Free State anyone?
 
The total number of colonies planned for the west were:

1. Charlotina (all land north and west of the Wabash River), Transylvania (western Kentucky)
2. Vandalia (West Virginia and east Kentucky)
3. Two attempts to settle an Ohio River colony west of Pennsylvania and east of Charlotina (the 'New Wales' fiasco of 1763, Ebenezer Hazard's scheme some years later, re-attempted by his son in 1774)
4. Apparently Montfort Browne tried to settle a colony on the Mississippi (as far as I can tell, NOT West Florida).
5.The Watauga Association also tried to become an independent colony.

Very fun and interesting note: give Charlotina, Transylvania, and Vandalia their proposed borders (and maps and descriptions exist to detail this), and given the 'New Wales' scheme had proposed longitude and latitude boundaries that are (very surprisingly) roughly equal to the natural boundaries of the so-far unclaimed land between Pennsylvania and Charlotina, all the land above the Ohio River is perfectly divided between these western colonies!

If Watauga takes all of North Carolina's trans-Appalachian claims (as it did when North Carolina reformed it into its Washington County in 1776) and give British 'Mississippi' the rest of the land between that, Georgia, and West Florida the land south of the Ohio River is, too.

Freaky!

I can give links proving this if anyone needs it. :)
 
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The total number of colonies planned for the west were:

1. Charlotina (all land north and west of the Wabash River), Transylvania (western Kentucky)
2. Vandalia (West Virginia and east Kentucky)
3. Two attempts to settle an Ohio River colony west of Pennsylvania and east of Charlotina (the 'New Wales' fiasco of 1763, Ebenezer Hazard's scheme some years later, re-attempted by his son in 1774)
4. Apparently Montfort Browne tried to settle a colony on the Mississippi (as far as I can tell, NOT West Florida).
5.The Watauga Association also tried to become an independent colony.

Very fun and interesting note: give Charlotina, Transylvania, and Vandalia their proposed borders (and maps and descriptions exist to detail this), and given the 'New Wales' scheme had proposed longitude and latitude boundaries that are (very surprisingly roughly equal to the natural boundaries of the so-far unclaimed land between Pennsylvania and Charlotina, all the land above the Ohio River is perfectly divided between these western colonies!

If Watauga takes all of North Carolina's trans-Appalachian claims (as it did when North Carolina reformed it into its Washington County in 1776) and give British 'Mississippi' the rest of the land between that, Georgia, and West Florida the land south of the Ohio River is, too.

Freaky!

I can give links proving this if anyone needs it. :)

I am immensely interested in seeing these links.
 
Heh, K!

For western colonies in general:

http://books.google.com/books?id=4Z...&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=i0...&resnum=6&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

For a separate British 'Mississippi' different from West Florida:

http://books.google.com/books?id=NC...=onepage&q="Browne actively promoted"&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=jM...ontfort Browne "Mississippi" "colony"&f=false

For New Wales/a General Ohio-state area colony:

http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/547931

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text6/failedcolonies.pdf

http://famousamericans.net/samuelhazard/ (notice this is mostly to show that Hazard's son tried to get Connecticut to re-confirm the claim the father had gotten from CT in 1775)

For Watauga, its western borders being extended as Washington County, and hopes for a Royal Governor:

http://books.google.com/books?id=uD... all Tennessee Mississippi River 1777&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=2O... at first intend nor wish to separate&f=false (pages 29-30)

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/o/John-E-Stockman/GENE16-0005.html

For Charlotina, Vandalia, and Transylvania:

Look at Wikipedia or the general colony links. Mostly because they have full pages on themselves. I specialize in the lesser-known colony proposals. :)
 
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