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The Boston Tea Party.
the loyalist did disagree with patriot's oppinion of taxes, because the the british had protected the colonist during war, and according to Ambrose Serle she critized that the colonies were like enemies of the british, also she believed that the complaints against the british wasn't strong enough to revolt against the British. also that colonies hurt England finacilly, but since the existed the governer had to protect the colonist.
the colonist were upset because the british government, after being lenient, tried to enfore the stamp act and also raise taxes. When George the 3rd come to throne (in 1760) he had expanded restrictive trading. (the taxes were to help support the british troops in north america)
Because they thought there should be no taxation without representation in Parliament.
During the 1700s the only authority that had the power to levy taxes in the American Colonies would have been the King of England along with the British Parliament. At the time of the American Revolution the King was George III. This was just one cause of the Revolution. The Colonies had no Representatives in the Parliament.