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To be perfectly honest I don't think the US would choose violence as a first resort here, rather you'd likely see them mostly interested in buying up sections of the Louisiana territory piecemeal. In the OTL there were two major driving factors on westward expansion, the first is up in the air...

Firstly, no, as I mentioned, French engagement in N.America was systemically different than English engagement historically. Changing the outcome of the French Revolution like this does not mean that policy is going to change, and given that this is explicitly a moderate to conservative regime...

Why in the world would they go to Louisiana over New York and Massachusetts? "They're Catholic" isn't a reason as Catholics have been a major religious group in the US since its founding, with Maryland explicitly being founded as a Catholic haven, with its at least one Catholic Church being...

I don't see how this prevents the rise of the US. There's no reason to expect the US to not expand into what would be the Louisiana purchase, heck there's no reason to not expect them to buy up large chunks of that from France anyway, though perhaps not Louisiana itself. The lack of the...

Ehh, I could still see France selling it to the US. They're still going to have massive financial issues even with a much less bloody revolution, and if they're going a more moderate path they might well accept continuity of debts owed by the French Monarchy, thus would need the money. Plus...