The British colonize America and create two regions with startlingly different ways of life; the agricultural slave holding South and the industrious puritanical North.
The United States become industrialized thanks to new inventions and the coming of the captains of industry such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie.
Immigration to booms in the late 19th and early 20th century. The American character changes again due to the coming of Jewish, Italian and Irish immigrants.