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>US Revolution wasn't all that revolutionary.
You're half-right. They were creating something new, but this process was carried out over a solid century (at the very least if we start with Penn's colony, and more than a century if you take it all the way back to Jamestown when Edwin Sandys planted the seed of democracy in Virginia under Charles I's nose through their charter) and across numerous states separated by countless miles. The Frog Chimpout of '89 happened in a comparably tiny section of the country. Likewise, as you mentioned with the lack of a *true* Nobility in the colonies, there was no massive push back against them like in France. In reality, most of the old English Nobility that had transplanted themselves directly or had jettisoned sons across the ocean in seek of their own fortunes had already been assimilated into the colonies - they weren't set apart from the whole the way the Old French nobility was. Land barons in the South like the Byrds, Carters and Lee's were families that arose from middling men during the early 1700's under Spotswood's governorship, and by the time of Revolution were either defunct (Byrds) or themselves various shades of Revolutionaries (the Lee's and Carter). The North's middling men-turned-nobility were also more fully assimilated and split along Federalist (William Cooper) and Republican (Governor George Clinton) lines in a way that doesn't even fit our modern notions of parties today. The US essentially had a series of "mini-revolutions" from the English Civil War, to Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, to the 1689 aftershocks of the Glorious Revolution, to the Governor-Generals that were placed in power after Queen Anne's War (Spotswood, Robert Hunter), to Virginia's War (forgotten name for the early conflicts of the Seven Years), to the backlash in '65 toward the Stamp Act, and then, finally, the US equivalent of the Storming of the Bastille and the Revolution proper.
tl;dr - Burke was right

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