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Here's an article about how/when the Americans got rid of their British accents. The short answer: no one knows for sure. When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?
I would be willing to bet money it was sometime around the Revolution and done deliberately.
I doubt it was that soon. 1/2 of the Americans were still loyalists and first generation Brits at the onset of the war. I would guess about 2 generations away, probably just before the Civil War. What about the Dutch, French, German, accents?
According to that article, the earliest recording they have is from around 1860, and the accent had already been lost by then.
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