Social classes were the ranking to determine your state in society. for example middle class in todays society
North and South Carolina became separate colonies in 1712. Each of the colonies prospered on its own affair without depending on the other. The fertility of the Low Country and several harbors facilitated the prosperity of the South.
Thomas Jefferson was 33 years old when he was tasked to write the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress in 1776, rendering entire generations of Americans slackers by comparison ever since. Jefferson at 33 boldly captured the will of a people frustrated with their absentee king and declared the equality of all men to be a truth powerful enough to abolish an unjust system of government; the rest of us are mostly trying to figure out how to set up our ETrade accounts.
It flows into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which also flows into the North Atlantic Ocean. :)