How did queen elizabeth not having children affect the united ststes?

Question

How did queen elizabeth not having children affect the united ststes?

Answer 1

It didn't at all, it was George III who was the monarch who lost the United States in 1776. Elizabeth I died over 170 years earlier in 1603 before the pilgrim fathers even left England.

Answer 2

It didn't...

Unless you know something i don't know...

Answer 3

Yow, that's a BIG question.  Had she any legitimate heirs, it would have meant that the Stuarts would not have had the throne.  There might not have been an English Civil War, and the ECW ended up having some big results for American colonization and English-language political theory.  That question is big enough for a PhD thesis.

Had the Stuarts never taken the throne, the Massachussetts Bay and Plymouth colonies might very well have never been founded, as these were founded by people fleeing from the Stuarts.  Had there been no English Civil War (which was started in reaction to Stuart rule), then there would not have been a large influx of wealthier coloniests to Virginia and the Carolinas, since many of them were fleeing the Roundhead/Cromwellian government that resulted from that war.

Had Elizabeth produced children who were legitimate heirs, there would have been no George I, George II, or George III.

The childlessness of Elizabeth I had far-reaching impact upon the United States of America.

Answer 4

1) There wouldn't have been a personal union of England and Scotland, so the Stuarts would not have started a colony of Lowland Scots in Ulster whereupon at least 1/3 of the emigrants there would not have, in turn, immigrated to the colonies.  These individuals were those most likely to rebel against the Mother Country during the American Revolution.

2)  Roundheads wouldn't have settled in New England, and Cavaliers wouldn't have settled in Virginia.  If the Cavaliers hadn't settled in Virginia, there wouldn't have been the basis for slavery that brought about the American Civil War.

3) The American continent would have been settled, but at a much slower pace.  If England or English settlers had conquered the continent, both what is now the United States and Canada would have been a part of the English Commonwealth.