No American Nobility

One of the fundamental questions about New World society, in particular in British North America, was whether it would adopt an extension of the Old World titles of nobility (i.e.. the Norman lines)

The answer in the Anglo-Saxon world was no. Partly this was because titles of nobility had begun to be less important overall in Britain, following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which brought about the beginnings of new middle class, and was right around the time that the British colonies were taking off.

The last serious attempt to create a line of American nobility following the Revolution was in the Society of the Cincinnati. The country was too vast for such a thing to work. It was not necessary, especially after the years after opening up of the Ohio Country. 

Men dreamed of greater things. They dreams of making canals.