What would happen to the Louisiana Territory if the constitution is never ratified and the thirteen states break away from each other in the 1790s.
Good replies. To be less vague I've decided to have the US break up in 1790. At this time Spain still owns the Louisiana territory. I think France still goes revolutionary but I'm not sure if Napoleon still comes to power but I don't think it's ASB. Interestingly I read that when Louisiana became Spanish the border between it and east Texas became blurred. An independent Texas that controls the mouth of the Mississippi would be cool.
New Orleans is the key to much of the rest of the territory. Without available land easily had by settling a frontier, Argentina, Brazil, and the Cape Province may get an immigration boost. An independent nation in modern Texas is plausible buy likely to be a British satellite. A Confederation of New England (OTL New England states), a United States (OTL New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Delaware with southern/western end of Great Lakes) along with a Federation of North American States (Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia, Carolinas, Maryland, Tennessee, and future Alabama/Mississippi) arise out of the post-colonial conflict. Spain's decline means it loses Florida eventually while abolition first in CNE then in USA promotes relationships elsewhere. Cotton and cash crops make the FNAS wealthy and the coastal Carolinas see some of the first industrialization in North America along with central Massachusetts. Louisiana becomes hotly contested, the USA and FNAS e eventually agree to separate control at the Missouri River to a line of 42.5 degrees latitude. Texas becomes a FNAS colony on Mexican territory and Louisiana, along with territories upriver, are gradually settled in a similar manner. By 1845 the territory is overwhelmingly Federal, so France exacts a steep price but sells it to the Richmond goverment. Philadelphia promptly buys it's promised share and the Texican War in 1860 brings much more to the Federation.