All the US is is one of the most profitable chunks of the British Empire at the time that wanted to keep a bigger share of the profits for themselves That's the main thing it was, the high-minded principles were secondary
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a hardcore British Americophile, has Holmes say he longs for the day "Our brother nations will quell the long-dead grudge stoked by one mad king" and "the world will be united under a quartering of the Union Jack and Stars and Stripes"
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I mean, he was basically right, but it's not a good thing, and it didn't turn out the way he probably hoped it would
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