Answer: I'm pretty sure it is the Puritans. Only because religion wasn't one of the major causes for the American Revolution.
Some of the philosophers ideas may be a threat to Greek tradition because their logic is not exactly originate from the impulse of gods.
The problem was that the confederation printed it without thinking much about it which resulted in there being a lot of it and it essentially became worthless because they printed money when they needed it instead of growing the economy. Trading partners became wary and stopped trading with them.
Similarities--whites were in the dominant group in each region. Violence was common to exert power over the minority racial group to include lynchings. Voting and citizenship restrictions were also in place against the minority groups.
Differences--the targeted group in the South were blacks and in the West were blacks but also the Chinese population. In the South, racial order was the motivation for much of the racial conflict. In the West, job competition was the basis for much of the racial conflict.
