Especially back in 1775, when they drove the Brits nuts, and look where that lead.
I've read accounts that the Puritans were ostracized and chased out of every nation they ever tried to settle in. They were constantly stirring up "holier than thou" trouble every where they went.
The reason they went to America was because they had been ran away from everywhere else.
And so it may very well be that they started the American Revolution simply because they were just being the same sort of @$$holes they have always been.
But this time it worked out for the best.