The British bore the Empire burden after we threw them off then the British got into World War I brought the USA in and the rest is history.
The author of Think and Grow Rich said in a lecture that the one thing he thinks was good about the Civil War-—only one-—is that when Great Britain was under attack by the Nazis there was a united country of the United States to come to their aid.
If you think about it, that’s not much. We have suffered terribly for all these decades because the Union won.
And I am a Michigander descended from Michiganders since my ancestors arrived from England, Scotland and Wales in the 1800s and one fought as a volunteer for the Union including some of the bloodiest battles. (He survived.)