How did America manage to flourish so quickly...

They didn't start behind. They literally started with all the social policies and techs that Great Britain had, on a continent filled with luxury and strategic resources, inhabited only by civs that were 300 turns behind in techs and policies.

Entire hemisphere of natural resources, goods only found in the Americas, free labor.

We harnessed the energy of the black warrior

actual freedom instead of meme freedom+confidence+capitalism+idolizing the idea of a self made man

It had a north european majority population.

>occupy half a continent
>no real competition there
>easy access to resources and manpower
>other world powers keep destroying each other over and over

The United States was a backwater nobody cared about. It was economically, culturally and militarily irrelevant. Then, WW1 happened and every side of the War bought war materials from the neutral US. The wealth Europe had accumulated through centuries was syphoned away into the US.

It was that alone that made the US wealthy. And later on in WW2 a similar thing happened. You don't have to trust me, but Dan Carlin explicitly says this in his podcast about WW1.

the usa was already the largest economy in the world by the time of the usa civil war

that's true but the US had already become an industrial giant by the end of the 19th century. I attribute it mainly to having nearly an entire continent of untouched land to themselves. on top of as someone else has said, already inheriting a great culture from england.

>economically irrelevant
Silly brainlet, European industry ran on American raw materials well before the Civil War began and long after. By the 1880s, the US was producing more steel than the rest of the world combined. Hell, a major reason for both Britain and Germany's forays into Africa were to break the dependence on American cotton, something Britain didn't manage until the interwar period. Anytime someone says that the US was economically irrelevant, they make it easy to see they have no idea what the fuck they're talking about. You have relatively minor points on the other two, but are still incorrect. European powers studied the US military in the 1860s to see how major conflicts would (and pretty much did) play out and Mayhan's book is the most influential (albeit not good) piece of naval theory in history. Culturally, American romanticism and literature were quite big in Europ in the mid and late 19th century and jazz was big before WWI. One of Germany's most famous writers of all time based his work on how Americans portrayed the frontier in paintings and literature because he had literally never been. America has never been irrelevant. It's been a secondary power at worst.

financiering, technological intergration off the back of slave boosted economy. you have 2 the greatest races in the world all inning a new continent unopposed(german/anglo)

The Great White Fleet helped scare the Japs into respecting the USA pre WWI too.

youtube.com/watch?v=qW73gFF-9AI

>You don't have to trust me, but Dan Carlin explicitly says this in his podcast about WW1.

>what is the entire 19th century?

> Like they started a game of civ 500 turns after but still managed to catch up

Well if you actually played the game you're memeing, you'd remember a wonderful thing called "African Advantage", where the Zulus would rape everyone because they shared a huge continent with like one other civ at most. Same thing here.

It's weird to me that none of you know anything about the industrial revolution. All you can talk about is world wars, which came much later. The main time period where the USA became powerful was in the 1800s, before the civil war.

In human history there are only a few great revolutions. The agricultural revolution is one, the other major one is the industrial revolution, which began in Britain. The USA became a country around the same time, and was one of Britain's largest trading partners. Through frequent trade and exchange of ideas the US easily developed its own industrialized system around the same time or shortly after the UK. This started in the textile mills which created the factory system, and coincided with inventions such as the steam engine. The USA was already a major producer of textiles, and especially cotton. The USA also benefited greatly from things like the steam locomotive, being such a large area. It had been a major producer of cash crops already, so it had the resources to fuel further development.

The USA also has a lot more land, people, and natural resources. It was a bigger version of the UK that developed the same technology around the same time. Other European powers did as well, such as Germany, and France, but they suffered from the same problems the UK did. There were no major wars between the American revolution and the civil war, which is almost 100 years of peace, growth, and prosperity. Except for the war of 1812 of course, but that was with the UK and may have actually helped technological innovation. Also European countries are constantly having revolutions and wars around this time, so that makes flourishing difficult.

The USA, I hate to admit, also had the benefit of not being destroyed in the world wars. It was safe, and was allowed to prosper in isolation. It's not that they were better than anyone else, they just were in the right place at the right time. It could have easily become Australia.

>peace, growth, and prosperity
Unless you're black of course.

Something called the age of revolution, the American revolution was one of the first, so they got their shit done quickly. You can thank Britain for that. Tax hungry tea drinkers. But every major country in Europe experienced at least one, sometimes many violent disruptive revolutions where many died and entire governments changed. Germany and Italy finally became single nations, France had many bloody revolutions and then Napoleon ravaged Europe. The USA left the time period relatively unscathed. That is until the civil war. All this helped America become a superpower going into WWI and beyond.

You say that as if that is supposed to come naturally to them

The same shit's happened multiple times tbqh.

>inhabited only by civs that were 300 turns behind in techs and policies.
heh

>confidence+capitalism+idolizing the idea of a self made man
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

That's not how wealth works NIGGRAH

Wat is humor i no get fasseshuss

>Like they started a game of civ 500 turns after but still managed to catch up