The thirteen original states of the United States for 1787 and 1790 were Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhoad Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, colonies with different political systems, and with a high grade of autonomy, they, before proclaiming independency, had began to work together, what helped not to depend on the decisions of London.
Trading of goods. For example on the southwest coast of British Columbia the indigenous people had a trading network expanding a great deal inland and even more so southward and northward.