American opening or defense??

Well you sure showed me and yes I am proud that the world knows that I only speak one language.

I refer to the Chinese sweat shops as technically slave labor because their labor is worth much more than a dollar an hour yet that's all they're paid.  If you deserve $15 per hour but are only getting paid a dollar an hour then you're a slave for 14/15th of the time. 

I know about the child labor and I bring it up whenever people badmouth Marx.  Marx grew up in a time when labor and environmental protections simply didn't exist and people forget to factor in that context.  Today, we know that both extreme managerial leverage like what the robber barons had (even to the point of hiring thugs and even US government to quash labor strikes) and pure Marxism are false.  People talk about socialism like it's a bad thing, but look at the Scandinavian countries, they are among the top in both education and healthcare.  Judge an economic system by its practical results and benefits, not reject it because it can't fit under the "American" box. 

 I'm the guy who says we should stop romanticising the founders, it wasn't exactly a people's revolution but more about businesses not wanting to answer to some king.  Washington even suppressed a revolt, which happened because he screwed them out of their rightful payment.  Michael Perenti has some good video lectures on them. 

I wasn't talking about the Chinese sweat shops, I was referring to the Northern business practices, prior to the Civil War. The company owned company stores in many cases as well, of course with jacked up prices. Thereby enslaving people. Many of the workers were abused physically also. That's the great North you're so proud of. Don't take my word for it though, do some research on it, so you will know it yourself. Good luck, and best wishes to you.

By the way, speaking of opeening, there is no chinese game even...

Here are some opening that have not been named yet...

1.e4 e5 2.Ba6

1.e4 e5 2.h3

1.e4 d6 2.Qg4

1.e4 c5 2.Qh5

1.e4 d6 2.Qe2

In the ECO system you have A00 Uncommon openings.

Why not call that the American openings?

1.e4,d6 2.Qg4 can be named the sped queen. 

1.e4,c5 2.Qh5 can be called the newb variation.

I call dibs on 1.f4,c5 2.b4 I call it the Bird Wing ^_^ I also call dibs on 1.f4,c5 2.b4,cxb4 3.a3,e5 the Lightning Countergambit because it's such an awesome name.  4...fxe5 5.d6,exd6 6.Bxd6 is a mix between the Wing Gambit and From ^_^

The great thing about the Bird Wing is after 3.a3,d5 doesn't strike at the e-pawn (but is still a great move, but isn't a clear advantage for black like the regular Wing Gambit)

We don't need all of them but we'll call dibs on the Van Geet it's one of those uncommon openings even better than a certain standard opening listed above (the Bird)

LOL.

Nah, I was more thinking about the creepy crawl opening. :-)

Not the opening from my fellow Dutchman, originating from the city in whose vicinity I am living. It could be renamed to the Rotterdam opening.

That... is actually a pretty cool name ^_^

To answer the OP, there already is a line called the "American" Opening.  It's not very good:

1.e4 e5 2.Ne2

I've only ever heard that called the Alapin.

Probably because they shouldn't be played by folks aside from Nakamura.

Nimzo-American Sicilian. (It is pretty fun but most variations end with a queen trade)

Actually, there is such a thing.  It is the American Gambit.  It is played against the Dutch Defense.

1 d4 f5 2 e4 fxe4 3.Nd2 (3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 is the Staunton Gambit)

That doesn't look very american. There's not much explosiveness going on lol

I know of the Dutch defense, but would never play it with Black because it exposes the king on the first move, without opening development opportunities. A bit like the bongcloud, which is a very American opening. Besides that, I like the Scheveningen variant of the Sicilian. But what spectrum of Dutch openings is out there?

Scheveningen is a good example 😁

Karel Traxler was Czech

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Traxler