The main point Alexis de Tocqueville was trying to make when he said, "the position of America is therefore quite exceptional", was that although America was a land of many freedoms, it was odd in the sense that there existed thousands of slaves who were not free, amongst the free whites.
By 1775, the Americans were prepared to engage in war with Britain. As the Americans felt they had been violated and cheated by the British, they were furious.
