1. For the record, I was against the American Revolution before @dylanmatt was:https://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/the-american-revolution-a-mistake/ …
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Can’t you just feel the freedom radiating as you near the border?
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That's exactly right.
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American Brumaire
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I see your nuance and raise you: there were multiple, often barely connected wars of colonial liberation and a federated state was born as a result. The “revolutionary” pressures came largely afterward.https://medium.com/s/balkanized-america/the-almost-civil-war-of-1789-e32bbcab5b8f …
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the thing about early America was that land was literally a virtually unlimited free commodity (at the expense of Native Americans) which helps take the edge off class conflict questions
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"Free Soil", Homestead Act, Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889: a lot of USA history centers around the influx of settlers to take over land. Whole presidential election campaigns turned on the issue.
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I like this formulation.
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