OK, your going to have to bear with me, I'm really newbish when it comes to this AH stuff, and if this is not the right section to post this I'm sorry.
I have three main questions, revolving around a generally more feverish manifest destiny, combined with a more decisive Mexican war and War of 1812.
1) The War of 1812 is a victory, but there is much more fighting along the Canadian border. Now I know during that war, the annexation of part of Canada was a goal. So, say, the British were much more preoccupied with le French, and get humiliated by the US in the war, and thus part or the whole of Canada is annexed, with the possible independence of Quebec. I remember reading on Wikipedia that the British were afraid that they would not be able to defend Canada against a second war, so that is also a possibility. My question for this, is how much of Canada could be annexed w/o making this seem like an Ameriwank, and how would it affect the future, would it butterfly away the Mexican war or even WWI?
2) The Mexican war is also a much more decisive victory. What are the possibilities of a more drastic end to the war, say annexation of Baja California, and a few of the Mexican provinces near Texas, say parts, or the whole, or a mix, of Sinora, Chihuahua, and/or Coahuila? The other possibilities are maybe two even three wars between Mexico and the US over the course of say 1820-1850. And what would this annoying butterflies look like?
3) The final question, is would the course of major events in Europe, be affected by this? IE, would WWI still happen generally the way it did OTL, I'm still looking for a way to make this plausable without making it Ameriwank II.
I'm sorry if this is a huge load, but these are the basic questions, as I'm really not as good wit hthe technicalities of butterflies or how much you can bend history before it snaps. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!