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That just isn’t true. Britain already opened expansion past the Appalachians before the Revolutionary War. If they reconcile with the colonists to the degree that it prevents the Revolutionary War, it likely would involve greater permission to expand, especially since it would be good for...

The borders set by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 had already been extended west twice before the revolution, in the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768 and the Treaty of Lochaber in 1770, entended access of settlers into Kentucky, Tennessee, and the New Purchase in Pennsylvania. As time progresses...

The British definitely should allow the colonists to expand. I’m thinking in this scenario, where the American colonies and the Crown work out their differences, that westward expansion is eventually allowed. Great Britain’s polices might influence that expansion and cause it to happen...

It’s so hard to answer these sorts of alternate history questions, there are such butterfly effects. If Britain effectively cuts off US Western expansion, it will eliminate the USA effectively or at least what we would become, even as a British holding. Assuming no American Revolution, it seems...