The American Revolution or the American War of Independence was a progressive anti-colonial overthrow of the British Empire
The British sought to keep the colonies in a lower mode of production doing cash crops for export
The young American nation wanted to industrialize and unleash the forces of production, so they constituted among themselves a Republican form of governance
They also fought against the oligarchical tendencies of the monarchy and sought to establish a citizenry of involved and upright persons, must like how the Soviets sought to build the New Soviet Man premised on a heightened level of civic and popular engagement
While the American state had its limitations and contradictions (slavery, relations with natives) it was overall a progressive force for world-historical development