From the european point of view the united states were divided from the very first moment. Be it into slaves and outlaws. What you guys call a nation of course we call a rogue-state at days of patience, and whatever you name for constitution we call it crap. We still wonder about the use of newspapers, letters and stuff, in deep down valleys wild western. Unless you don't even heard about toiletpaper, which still could be so very likely. It's a rather irony of history writing, but the old continent stopped having doubts americans are able to walk upright too, not earlier than the inauguration of the very first blackskin electified for topkilling the whitehouse misusers.