What if Spain gets Quebec instead of Louisiana, after the Seven Years War? Will the USA Purchase it, will it return to France or will it fall to Britain?
What if Spain gets Quebec instead of Louisiana, after the Seven Years War? Will the USA Purchase it, will it return to France or will it fall to Britain?
Why would Spain want Quebec?
The contemporary opinion of Quebec was that it was a few acre of ice,so there's no way Spain would want Quebec if it can have Louisiana instead.Well, it is an huge territory just like Louisiana was, but being more in the north it does give Spain different resources then its other colonies. (Sorry if i didn't talk english that good)
It has the disadvantage of not being connected to Mexico, anyway.
What if Napoleon had decided not to sell Louisiana?
The US would have been constrained to half the size it is today. Thoughts?
Okay, what about making another thread on "What if Spain never lost Louisiana" then?
Well, just asking.If they don't give it up in 1800, they'll lose it within 20 years, as they did Florida (and most of their other possessions in the Americas). The United States is all but guaranteed to end up taking Louisiana, which was not particularly valuable to either France or Spain in its 1800 state, but was valuable to the U.S. because of its desire to control the Mississippi River trade.
Well if the French gave Louisiana to Britain and Quebec to Spain... I think that with all that new territory, Britain might be able to placate the colonists for a good long while
Well, they got the eastern half of it in the Seven Year's War. But that same year they issued the Proclamation of 1763 which restricted colonial settlement beyond the Appalachians.