This little boy, grown old and moved to Albemarle Point, South Carolina, could tell many more stories to a little girl from England in 1682. This child could, as a grandmother, convey many a tale to her granddaughter in Charleston in 1747, and the next grandchild would be thrilled with stories of the Revolution, while scared at the thought of a new British invasion in the War of 1812. The memorial generations can be tabulated, with a phrase describing the essences so far as the United States is geographically involved. Demographic decline of Indians everywhere. Africans begin to arrive in North America.
Indian decline continues.
Prototypical U.S. cultures established in New England, New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Frontier, and Far Southwest. Stabilization and expansion of colonial cultures. Heavy immigration begins. Stresses between colonies and imperial government end in independence and constitutional synthesis. Intense internal states development.