War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning, by Chris Hedges

[Combanitorics]

One way to view this is as a class war, if you bear in mind that again, the British had more money.

Remember the trigger for all of this.  The Treaty of Paris in 1763 cemented British rule in North America the French recovered the more valuable (in their opinion ) sugar plantations they had lost.  Further, rather than having "more money" the British were mortgaged to British and Dutch banks and tried to get the colonials to pay for British exertions during the 7 Years War.  These actions tended to impact the merchant class most and therein lie the seeds for revolution.  I don't agree with your "class warfare" concept especially if you mean it in a Marxist sense.  The American merchants were the nouveau riche looking to get in on the British action.

Then this "action" must have had more than a monetary value to the American merchants.  After all it costs a considerable amount of money to prosecute a war.