Why did the us revolt against Britain?
I've always read that it was about "taxation without representation", but the more research I'm doing it seems like people in Britain were taxed as well (like for tea). Weren't americans given a lot of protection from the red coats?
This older post of mine gets into a fair number of the details, though be advised it tends to focus on events in New England and there were parallel resistance movements to Parliament occurring in the South, particularly in Wilmington, N.C. and Charleston, S.C.