A vast array of factors that include the political and social backgrounds of a people will shape  the precisecourse of any and all revolutions.
 
 

British Soldiers Sack a New England Home

It was in America, where the colonists were not an alien people with a culture very different than that of the motherland.   They were for the most part British in origin, English-speaking, Protestant, rural, and agrarian in their principal characteristics.   They were proud of their Anglo-Saxon heritage and of the empire of which they were a part -- proud, too, of the role they had   played in helping to seize Canada and to crush French power in North America in the French and Indian War (known as the Seven Years' War in Europe), which ended in 1763.

Prior to France's defeat in the French and Indian War (1754-1763), Britain had 13 colonies in North America. Each colony was a separate entity with its own government. Inter-colony ties were not created until events, such as the  French and Indian War and conflicts with Britain, united the colonists.