I don't think it's equivalent. But people took up arms to fight what they thought was an oppressive government. A lot of people thought the American Revolutiona

I don't think it's equivalent. But people took up arms to fight what they thought was an oppressive government. A lot of people thought the American Revolutionaries were radicals with bad ideas, including a third of the Colonists. The Revolutionaries happened to also support slavery as a racist institution, which is why a lot of slaves sided with the British including some of Washington's own.