Is it because once the country became independent, it was ruled by the elites who wanted to create a liberal country? Even though many other countries have freed themselves from colonialism and they used the liberal ideology as the framework of their governments. Were the Statesians weren’t as exploited as the other colonies?
The revolution was waged by and for the settlers and not the colonized people. Other colonies are not settler in nature, the colonized masses were rising up against their colonizer to become liberated
For the US, it was not colonized masses rising up against colonizers, it was settler colonizers rising up against the crown so that they could extract greater profits from colonized people without having to pay taxes.
I’m going to over-simplify a little bit. The colonists were British subjects, most of whom came voluntarily for better opportunities than they’d had at home, and they could leave any time they wished[1]. For the most part they were the colonizers (and slavers), not the colonized.
The wealthiest of them eventually started the first bourgeois revolution in history, which was possible because this British exclave was too distant for the crown/state to successfully hold.
After completing their indentured servitude contract, in some cases. ↩︎
