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Wanderers from Europe create new cultures in America
One of the great folk wanderings in history carried Europeans to the Americas in the 17th and early 18th centuries. English settlers formed the core, with Dutch Swedes Germans and others shaping a blended culture. New England's economy grew via mills trade and shipbuilding while Pennsylvania thrived on crafts and a large Scotch Irish migration. Southern colonies stressed tobacco and slave society, forming a diverse yet hierarchical social order. The era forged a nation by welcoming varied groups, yet core liberty and English law influenced all amid frontier expansion.
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