The colonists wanted their independence from England, so they rebelled in 1776, but the started the war even earlier. They started the Revolutionary War in the 1770's. The answer to your question is independence.
Answer: Eugene Victor Debs
Eugene Victor Debs was born of French immigrant parents in Indiana and became an active labor organizer 1870s. He created the American Railway Union (ARU), an industrial union (Industrial Workers of the World/IWW) in 1893. For five times, he became a candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States from 1900 to 1920.