Usually there's a history of revolutions that, one having defeated their common foe, the factions fractured and turned on one another, as in (at least to my comprehension) the French after their revolution. Why didn't this seem to not happen to the US following the American Revolution?
This is the reason that the "American Revolution" term used in the US is utterly unhelpful. The French Revolution claimed to be an attempt to buld a new and better society. The American colonial leaders claimed to be preserving and protecting their existing social norms, from freedom to speech for white males through to slavery. The "American War of Independence" is a better description for both what the rebels set out to do and what they achieved.