I think aggressive ambition of conquest and empire building
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My sources says "The French Revolution also influenced U.S. politics, as pro- and anti- Revolutionary factions sought to influence American domestic and foreign policy. ... However, with revolutionary change also came political instability, violence, and calls for radical social change in France that frightened many Americans.
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These thinkers valued reason, science, religious tolerance, and what they called “natural rights”—life, liberty, and property. Enlightenment philosophers John Locke, Charles Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau all developed theories of government in which some or even all the people would govern.
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.
