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What was the USA like in the 18th Century?
Other than the whole war, slavery and genocide thing, I've got a picture in my head of the US being an ideal place to be immediately following independence. The country at this time just seemed socially so free and so active in terms of intellectuals and artists. Is this a misguided view of the new country?
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- Anonymous8 years ago
Well - some people were free.. Not slaves. And there was a Judge Lynch who hung a LOT of Royalists after we got our independence. This is where the word "lynch" came from when a mob hangs somebody. So things weren't that rosy.
On the good side, America was one HUGE pot of natural resources with no lock on them. All you had to do is steal them from the Indians. Endless forests of perfect trees for ship building and houses.
And the real secret of America was that in America there was no King/Prince types. A mechanic which could make machines was a highly respected person - unlike in England where the only people who counted were the worthless King/Prince types.
So from the very beginning, machines and manufacturing were taking off at least in the North - which then soon forbade slavery. The South, unfortunately, was poisoned by slavery and remained ugly, stupid and agricultural.