The region has had patterns of original settlement by different peoples, and later settler colonial states and societal setups.
This includes knowledge, customs, and arts of Americans, as well as events in the social, cultural, and political spheres.
[1] The Columbian exchange was a series of biological and cultural transfers between Europe, Africa, and Asia, on the one hand, and North and South America, on the other.
The ideas of the Enlightenment influenced many of the Founding Fathers when it came to philosophy on government and its relationship with individual rights.
Coined by President Herbert Hoover as "rugged individualism in 1928, many Americans developed a strong oppositional stance to the government in their lives.