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ViciDraco · 41-45, M
The US might actually be either several colonial powers or several nations.
A big reason we got the Louisiana Purchase so cheap was because France needed cash fast. If they didn't spend all of that money supporting our war things might have gone very different for them at home. And if they weren't desperate for the money, I doubt they'd sell to a rival like England was at the time. France may have never divested! And without that divestment the Manifest Destiny movement might have stalled out right there. And if England and France had kept their claims, Spain might have held onto theirs longer as well.
A big reason we got the Louisiana Purchase so cheap was because France needed cash fast. If they didn't spend all of that money supporting our war things might have gone very different for them at home. And if they weren't desperate for the money, I doubt they'd sell to a rival like England was at the time. France may have never divested! And without that divestment the Manifest Destiny movement might have stalled out right there. And if England and France had kept their claims, Spain might have held onto theirs longer as well.