Manhattan offers many places to wait out a storm (stores, cafes, awnings, etc.)
The social forces that reshaped the United States in its first half century were profound. Western expansion, growing racial conflict, unprecedented economic changes linked to the early Industrial Revolution, and the development of a stronger American Protestantism in the Second Great Awakening all overlapped with one another in ways that were both complementary and contradictory. Furthermore, these changes all had a direct impact on American political culture that attempted to make sense of how these varied impulses had transformed the country. The changing character of American politics can be divided into two time periods separated by the War of 1812. In the early republic that preceded the war, "REPUBLICANISM" had been the guiding political value. Although an unquestioned assault on the aristocratic ideal of the colonial era, republicanism also included a deep fear of the threat to public order posed by the decline of traditional values of hierarchy and inequality
Answer: Epic poems
Explanation: An epic poem or narrative poem that usually describes deeds of some of the heroes, such as Gilgamesh or Beowulf. It is certainly about the heroic acts of such heroes, their extraordinary abilities, their courage. The grandiose style of describing them, their lives, their plot, etc., was used to better understand the exceptional nature of these heroes. These are semi-mythical or completely mythical characters on the basis of which some of the universal moral traits are built. Of course, they can be kings, but other types of heroes, who as such were role models to the whole nation, to a group of people, etc.
Your choice. I pick Mid-Atlantic, but I don't know why.