[Jonty30]

Your revolution was funded through a lottery.
The government just made it illegal in order to monopolize the gambling. Those neighbourhood lotteries had a higher ratio payout than your lotteries through government.

[Rockingham]

The full story is more complicated. As America was settled and developed, growing urbanization and religious and moral improvement crusades that were especially popular with women led to antivice laws. These banned or restricted alcohol, prostitution, and gambling and gave women the vote. By the 1890s state and federal laws ended lotteries, with small scale raffles and bingo surviving for charitable causes as a minor form of legal gambling.

Lotteries with big payouts made a comeback though beginning in the 1960s as a way to add funds to state coffers, often directed toward worthy causes popular with women voters like child services or education. In Florida, a state lottery was approved by referendum with the provision that the proceeds go toward education. On the net though, the influx of lottery money made little difference because public education is a hopeless money pit and other education funds were reduced to meet various competing state and local needs.