Europeans were the ones that drove us away using things like threats of death, actual death/murder/vigilantly sprees/burning our homes/crops, creating mass starvations, etc. all because our families were of the wrong faith or ethnic background according to the Europeans.
People that had no fall back, who had traveled across a very hostile ocean, and lost plenty of loved ones in the process, and were determined to carve out a life for themselves in a European centric world that had shown itself up to that point very much against them. Americans that were determined to keep that government power/tyranny of the majority that had been used to murder/opress/expel them in check.
American's had/have a much different attitude than 'European'. There's a reason many of us think of it as a pretty museum not a place to emulate. Europe didn't want us. Funny how Europe is so quick to forget this bit of our 'common' bond.
> Americans that were determined to keep that government power/tyranny of the majority that had been used to murder/opress/expel them in check.
By using majority tyranny to work enslaved Europeans, Native Americans, and later Africans as engines of the fields?
You have a very blinkered rosy eyed picture of the colonial settlement of the USofA.
The colonies were very much European sponsored investment enterprises with owners and stockholders with European values in addition to being opposed to Crown taxes raised by batshit loons with Royal blood (an issue in Europe and not just the US).
Post independance trade continued and the original colonies remained Anglophile (the English colonies at least, the Dutch and other colonies also retained European ties).
Europeans were the ones that drove us away using things like threats of death, actual death/murder/vigilantly sprees/burning our homes/crops, creating mass starvations, etc. all because our families were of the wrong faith or ethnic background according to the Europeans.
People that had no fall back, who had traveled across a very hostile ocean, and lost plenty of loved ones in the process, and were determined to carve out a life for themselves in a European centric world that had shown itself up to that point very much against them. Americans that were determined to keep that government power/tyranny of the majority that had been used to murder/opress/expel them in check.
American's had/have a much different attitude than 'European'. There's a reason many of us think of it as a pretty museum not a place to emulate. Europe didn't want us. Funny how Europe is so quick to forget this bit of our 'common' bond.