Other than being loyalists or patriots, how did some americans view the revolutionary period?

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. —"the gettysburg address," abraham lincoln which quotation correctly uses an ellipsis to shorten lincoln’s words?

What was the most explosive issue facing the united states prior to the start of the civil war?

This is the preoccupation with buying material goods