Yes and no. It's not that you're wrong, it's just incomplete.
I completely agree that eventually they wanted the entire pie, but that happened in a context based on European history for those people in-country. We can look at other areas, like Central and South America, and find that it didn't work out so well.
Religious freedom was a huge motivating factor for the initial wave of migration, and part of that freedom involved a heritage of things like the 30 Year's War. This was the basis and background of what played out later, even if what played out later was more commercial and deist in nature.
I think it's a mistake to look at the American Revolution in terms of what happened in 2-4 decades around 1776. There was a lot more going on.
ADD: You don't get the wording and reasoning of the DOI and the fact that multiple states had state religions at the founding of the country from purely commercial interests.
"Religious freedom" has two sides, the "free practice of religon" on the one side, and the "get rid of troublesome fanatics" on the British side. Making troublesome people (including petty criminals) go away paid immediate dividends at home.
IMO, that's a key part of the American Revolutionary experience. America was a backwater land of weirdos in many ways... Puritan fanatics, feudal Dutch, Catholic heretics, Quakers, etc. The colonies were kept at arms length in some respects, and were a lower priority for attention than the far more lucrative India and sugar islands.
I completely agree that eventually they wanted the entire pie, but that happened in a context based on European history for those people in-country. We can look at other areas, like Central and South America, and find that it didn't work out so well.
Religious freedom was a huge motivating factor for the initial wave of migration, and part of that freedom involved a heritage of things like the 30 Year's War. This was the basis and background of what played out later, even if what played out later was more commercial and deist in nature.
I think it's a mistake to look at the American Revolution in terms of what happened in 2-4 decades around 1776. There was a lot more going on.
ADD: You don't get the wording and reasoning of the DOI and the fact that multiple states had state religions at the founding of the country from purely commercial interests.