map for an ameriwank I am toying with

They did not feel the Island of Mandingo was an area that could be assimilated unlike the rest of the Islands so it was traded for places that they did want, and other considerations.

The independent areas in central Canada is a friend . In a victorious war against Britain OTL Manitoba and Nunavut goes to the Republic of Quebec while points west go to the USA

As to these areas being colonies some began that way but eventually all these areas have statehood if population is large enough. and many of the small islands (blue dots) would be lumped together as a state.
 
For the same reason nobody really tried to make a Mediterranean-Indian Ocean canal somewhere else than between Egypt and Sinai : it's easier this way.

Nicaragua was admittedly a studied alternative, as it may have been impossible to build it in Panama. However, I doubt, I really doubt, that an USA able to control landlock lands for the simple reason that "We occupied it. Now we own it" without having too much trouble with neighbors is preoccupied about panamean political impossibilities.
 
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