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Because they wanted to break free from Britain because they had lived in America for so log they didn't feel as if they were British; also because of the high taxes Britain was putting on them and the Stamp &Tea Act made them revolt.

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because the king of England at that time was being too "bossy" to the colonists, and the last straw was`all the taxing and the Boston tea party. they cut ties afterwards and went to war.

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