What happened in America seems to be nothing of the kind that happened in France a few years later. 

American Independence was all about a group of Englishmen exercising their rights under the 1688 Bill of Rights (e.g. 'no taxation without representation' had been a dominant theme in the British parliament since Charles I). In the Thirteen Colonies there were no immediate changes in State laws and society after independence. The American President effectively became an elected king. Slavery continued etc. Society continued much as it had done before, but without the colonial power being involved.

In France there was indeed a Revolution. Society was turned on its head. The King (eventually) lost his. Slaves (including in the French dominions were freed), a popular assembly was set up etc. 

My guess is that the term *American Revolution* was not used until much later, certainly not until after the events in France - after which the two became spuriously linked.

So who, and when did they, coin the term American Revolution?