Reasonable size of British North America.

How does shooting American identity in the kneecaps work, though? There's a reason we had Continental Congresses instead of the Carolinas Congress.
It's not my area of expertise but was there an American identity at that point as opposed to a rebel/patriot political one? About ninety-five years later you seem to of had large numbers of people that chose their state over the nation, plus it being after the little unpleasantness that you saw the change from plural to singular when referring to the United States.
 
Making technology grow slower is basically impossible, unless you prevent the Industrial Revolution from happening in the first place, and that requires an earlier POD, around the 17c Scientific Revolution. Maybe you can knock Britain out entirely but keep the rest of Europe, which could happen around 1700; per Joel Mokyr, the Netherlands would have industrialized natively, but a few decades behind Britain's schedule.

Well,without major wars in the Occident (no Napoleon wars,no US Civil war,no Indipendence wars in Italy,Prussian-French war of 1870,and of course no WW-I,WW.II and cold war) the technological development should be a little more slower,maybe not of 80 years behind,but by some decades is very probable.
 
plus it being after the little unpleasantness that you saw the change from plural to singular when referring to the United States.

I think this is an urban myth:

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Edit: Can't get this to work, but it looks like "These United States" was actually not that common.
 
I strongly disagree with those thinking there would be less encroachment into Indian lands and Spanish America. A British America is going to require most power being relinquished to local power, as the empire did in India and Africa. The reason the Indians were treated better in Canada was because it was in the economic interests of the settlers to work with them in the fur trade. The Brits were perfectly happy to push natives off their land, as in Kenya, or a spot of genocide, as in Tazmania, when it suited them. The same will happen with the Five Civilised Tribes in our timeline.

As for the push from London, it will be around merchant commercial concerns, and the focus there was picking apart the Spanish Empire in the 1700s rather than in the 1800s as the US did in our timeline. The Caribbean will be the main focus, particularly Hispaniola and Cuba, but places like New Orleans and Veracruz would also be of interest. I imagine in this timeline the settlement push would be to the south west rather than the north west. That probably results in Mexico being cut off from its northern territories sooner, and at a more southerly point, but later settlement of the inland great plains and rockies. California will be settled from the sea but Russian territory might be left as is, as war with Russia will be seen as more trouble than its worth.
 
It's not my area of expertise but was there an American identity at that point as opposed to a rebel/patriot political one? About ninety-five years later you seem to of had large numbers of people that chose their state over the nation, plus it being after the little unpleasantness that you saw the change from plural to singular when referring to the United States.

The American identity started forming in the late 1760s and 1770s as the result of struggle with the crown, but only cemented due to the pushes of the founding fathers once the republic was established. With that push averted, it would not necessarily be any stronger than New Zealanders thinking of themselves as Antipodeans with the Australians. Loyalty would be mainly to the dominion in question. Even after 40 years of EU membership the UK barely thinks of itself as European.
 
Well,without major wars in the Occident (no Napoleon wars,no US Civil war,no Indipendence wars in Italy,Prussian-French war of 1870,and of course no WW-I,WW.II and cold war) the technological development should be a little more slower,maybe not of 80 years behind,but by some decades is very probable.

That's... not really true. I could even argue it the other way: Britain spent on the order of 10% of its GDP on the military throughout the 19c, and had less efficient tax collection methods than today; this means the wars created a lot of domestic economic distortion to raise funds to pay interest on the debt they created, and discouraged civilian investment.

Take, as a concrete example, the development of ironclads. Observe that civilian steamers came first: steam-powered ocean ships appear in the 1840s, reducing trans-Atlantic trip times from about 2 months on a sailing ship to 2 weeks; this technology was not developed by the military, and the military application to ironclad ships only came later.
 
There *was* sizable German immigration to New York and Pennsylvania in the colonial period, however - mostly Lutherans, Reformed, and smaller sects (Mennonites, etc.). There were entire areas of the upstate of both colonies that were German dominated. That would create a continued "pull" factor for more German immigrants into the 19th century. You might, however, see less of the big German Catholic waves that came in the 19th century.

IIRC Benjamin Franklin wrote a public letter complaining about all these damn Germans who couldn't understand the about the rights of free-born Britons, clung to their own languages, listened only to their own religious leaders and could never be assimilated.
 
IIRC Benjamin Franklin wrote a public letter complaining about all these damn Germans who couldn't understand the about the rights of free-born Britons, clung to their own languages, listened only to their own religious leaders and could never be assimilated.

He didn't claim the last bit. He felt assimilation could happen, but they should be forcibly moved between the colonies to make this happen sooner.
 
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