Why did the colonists fight the British?

Why this is the answer

USCIS accepts three answers, and each one names a real complaint the colonists had: high taxes, also called taxation without representation; the British army staying in colonists' houses, which the list calls boarding or quartering; and the lack of self-government. Give any one. At the heart of the tax grievance was consent. Britain raised taxes on the colonies without letting colonial representatives vote on them, and the colonists had nobody in the British government to speak for their needs. When they protested, Britain answered with more taxes and punishing laws, and it made the colonial congresses illegal. Quartering was the grievance people felt at home: ordinary families were forced to let British soldiers sleep and eat under their roof. Beneath all three ran a wider conviction that Britain did not respect the colonists' basic rights. Many colonists no longer wanted to be part of Great Britain at all; they wanted a country of their own that they could govern themselves. The anger kept rising until fighting broke out in Massachusetts in 1775. The Declaration of Independence then turned these complaints into a formal case against the king, calling his record a history of repeated injuries. Its list includes "For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us" and "For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent," and its opening argument rests on the idea that governments draw their just powers from the consent of the governed. The memory lasted. When the Bill of Rights was written, the Third Amendment barred quartering a soldier in any house in peacetime without the owner's consent. For the interview, the list's own words are the safest. "Taxation without representation" is a complete answer by itself. "Because of the king" or "they wanted to be free" is too loose to match any of the three. It is also easy to answer with a reason colonists came to America, such as religious freedom, which belongs to a different question. Think money, houses, government: unfair taxes, soldiers at the table, no say in the laws.