We're an interesting country. We're very young. We lack an ancient history.
We are a people coming into existence, an eternal apocalypse, a Hegelian project of "becoming" rather than static being.
While peoples living on this continent do have ancient history (the Indigenous Americans) the whole unified landmass lacks a common ancient history.
America was an experiment, it sought to create from scratch some utopian vision for a better future. Hence "New World" versus the "Old World"
The utopian socialists like Fourier had followers who built La Reunion, which still remains in namesake today in La Reunion Tower in Downtown Dallas. "The ball" skyscraper.
America was always the Wild West. Even New England was the farthest western reaches of the "known" world.