World Geopolitics With A Dominion of America?

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If the American War of Independence somehow failed, what would the world look during the 19th century?. Specifically, the Napoleonic Wars and the slavery question. As some have suggested, Canada would remain a backwater. Also, would this united American colony have control over financial markets?
 
Specifically, the Napoleonic Wars

There'd still be a French Revolution, as France was basically fucked because of their bad debt issues and horrible political model. But Napoleon would almost certainly be butterflied away, and so the French Revolutionary Wars would be a smaller affair, likely ending in French victory with sister states in Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries.

As some have suggested, Canada would remain a backwater.

There would be no Canada. OTL Southern Ontario would simply be considered part of the same region as the OTL American Midwest.
 

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If the American War of Independence somehow failed, what would the world look during the 19th century?. Specifically, the Napoleonic Wars and the slavery question. As some have suggested, Canada would remain a backwater. Also, would this united American colony have control over financial markets?
The Thirteen Colonies and later western settlements would be split into many different dominions to keep them loyal to Britain. The British Empire would be larger in every respect, and with a larger population of "British" people (in Britain, America, Canada, Australia, possibly Argentina ITTL) compared to its colonies, the UK might remain imperialist to the modern day.
 
Either the focus of the country would shift towards North America or North America would become independent. The majority of the white population of the empire would be living in the Dominion of America. In OTL, the USA surpassed England in the 1810s, and would either need representation in Parliament, eventually leading to dominance, or enough autonomy to basically be independent.
 
If the American War of Independence somehow failed, what would the world look during the 19th century?. Specifically, the Napoleonic Wars and the slavery question. As some have suggested, Canada would remain a backwater. Also, would this united American colony have control over financial markets?

Why would Canada be a backwater? I imagine the St Lawrence would become one of the main routes of reaching the Great Lakes and the American Midwest.
 
Either the focus of the country would shift towards North America or North America would become independent. The majority of the white population of the empire would be living in the Dominion of America. In OTL, the USA surpassed England in the 1810s, and would either need representation in Parliament, eventually leading to dominance, or enough autonomy to basically be independent.

The American dominions would of course become more and more influential in time, but there's still the rest of the empire in existence, particularly the Caribbean and India at this time, plus any further gains in Asia, Africa or, likely, Latin America. The sectarian differences between north and south also have no reason to suggest that the American vs European split would be the dominant one that mattered.

In the modern USA, would we say there is a strong feeling that the Eastern USA dominates the West? If you calculate it arithmetically, it is definitely true, but nobody particularly notices it. In this trans-Atlantic 19th C British Empire, it's possible the rural populations West of the Appalachians complain about those metropolitan businessmen in New York and London in the same breath. Meanwhile abolitionists in London and New York seek common cause against the slave power in Kingston, Havana and Atlanta.
 
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