The American Revolution CAN be considered similar to a Civil War in that a lot of people were divided as to whether or not they wanted independence from Britain. This divide between loyalists and colonists went very deep with some people. Benjamin Franklin practically wrote his son out of any inheritance because he was a loyalist and Franklin was disgusted by it. https://journals.psu.edu/phj/article/viewFile/25468/25237 Btw....are you going to ASU? We were asked to answer this question this week in my American Revolution class.