On July 4, 1776, a document was signed declaring the American colonies independent from the British Empire that founded them. These colonists then managed to somehow win a war against one of the single most prolific imperial powers the world has ever known and subsequently the United States of America was born. And every year, in celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, we in the US like to shoot fireworks into the sky and eat hot dogs. But what would the last two and a half centuries of history look like if none of this had happened? What if the American Revolution never happened?