Post-War North America (Iberian Wedding)

With the War of the Protestant League lost, England and the Netherlands lost all or most of their colonial holdings in North America. While there is dispute on who really won the war in Europe, Spain and France were the clear winners in North America.

New France
England was forced to cede all it's holdings on the eastern coast, leaving it with the Hudson Bay colony. The region was split between France and Spain, where France got Virginia and north while Spain got Carolina and Georgia. French policy in the New World was at first, like Spain, very tolerant. They allowed the English settlers to live peacefully and spread their culture, just as long as they converted to Catholicism. All English slave and land owners kept their property, and for the most part were left undisturbed by the French officials. However, the English still had a long rivalry with the French, so some would not accept French rule. Knowing this, the Anti-English French Governor Mathis Boudet imposed a tariff that deeply affected the English a few decades later. 'Registered' English peoples would have to pay more for goods imported from Europe than the new French Settlers. Enraged, a few English settlers  rose up in revolt, but without much unity every revolt failed. New France was an unstable colonial dominion for a long time, however this tariff proved to be so impactful that many English families officially converted to the French way of life. In just a century, the French would outnumber the English 2 to 1, and this was before the wave of immigration from Mainland France in the 1700s. Despite the harsh treatment towards the English, New France was still very tolerant towards Native Americans. Like in OTL, the French sought to trade with the Natives rather than conquer them. Seeing the advantages of French society, some Natives, like the English, abandoned their roots. New France saw major population growth of it's own culture without bringing in too much of it's own settlers.

New Spain
New Spain was formed from Florida (ceded by Spanish Caribbean) and the territory gained from England. A small colonial nation, New Spain only consisted of Florida, Georgia, and Carolina upon it's birth. The Spanish, unlike the French, completely allowed English culture to thrive independently. Knowing the English were accustomed to excluding Natives from their settlements, New Spain only allowed Natives to settle in Flordia and land west of the Gerogian towns. New Spain remained comprised of mostly English settlers until the 1800s, when thoughts of independence and separtism died out on it's own and English families brought Spanish aspects of life into their culture. This was named 'Floridian Culture' by the people of New Spain, as Florida became one of Spain's most diverse colonies by allowing English and Native peoples to settle in it's borders. New Spain would later gain more land through purchase and war, however New Spain would never become as rich and powerful as Mexico or the Spanish Caribbean.

Hudson Bay
Upon losing it's holdings to France, the Dutch set up a minor colony just west of England's Hudson Bay. The bay would be the only place where British and Celtic cultures would thrive, as England, Ireland, and Scotland all colonized the area. The Netherlands would never gain a big influence on the New World, and instead would focus on the East Indies. England will continue colonial expansion, but it would never catch up to Spain or France. Natives in these areas were persecuted by the English and Dutch; many native cultures in northern Canada were wiped out.