Well, the American Revolution was kind of unique in a lot of ways, really. It's like it was one of the few honest revolutions or something. (Also, it helped that afterwards, there was a free exchange of population between the USA and Canada - Loyalists and many French simply went north, while republicans moved south, for the most part, which avoided triggering any instinct for post-revolutionary "purges".)
Well, the American Revolution was kind of unique in a lot of ways, really. It's like it was one of the few honest revolutions or something. (Also, it helped that afterwards, there was a free exchange of population between the USA and Canada - Loyalists and many French simply went north, while republicans moved south, for the most part, which avoided triggering any instinct for post-revolutionary "purges".)