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English Civil War: For the first time, successfully, the people of England rose up against the king and killed him. They moved from having the king as the center of power to the parliament.

Puritan pilgrims: For some time the puritans ruled over England. However, the English people rejected them and their ideas. They fled to the Netherlands, and eventually found a way to flee Europe altogether, since Europe was not welcoming to their strict way of life. They were the first successful colonists in the Americas. Up until then, Europeans had only been able to trade or subjugate the native population. The pilgrims were actual Europeans (from England) moving to America to build their own towns and cities and spread their own way of life, without including the native population.

American Revolution: The same people who helped overthrow the king of England moved to the American continent, where they built their own homes on their own land. Multiple times the king of england tried to get them to stop taking land from the Indians but they wouldn't listen to him. When the king tried to use force, the Americans fought back. Eventually the Americans decided they could have their own parliament -- the Continental Congress. (The US constitution doesn't come around for some time later.)

American Civil War: Ostensibly fought over the question of slavery, the reality is that the Southern States wanted to be freed from the Northern States over various issues, including slavery but more importantly, they felt like they had the economic base and financial backing to win because there was a massive market crash that destroyed the northern economy. Lincoln won the war not because his men were better at fighting or smarter (they weren't) but because he figured out how to print his own money and get people to accept it. The North fought against the South and the rest of the world and the world banking conglomerate and won.

WWI / WWII: America showed the world that we were the only superpower that ever existed. Europeans who were smart understood this and built NATO, which was a vassal organization to the US. Because of US mismanagement, things had gotten out of control, but we are re-asserting ourselves and our interests, partly because we're sick of your shit but also because no amount of help from us is making your life better because you are all losers. We would help you fix it if we could, but we can't, so sayonara suckers.