Answer:
Elementary my dear Watson, The colonists went to war because of the taxes, the British held onto the colonists like a dog on a tight leash, and they kept taxing us, even for tea, which we said we did NOT want, so they did the Boston tea part, which is where some of the colonists dressed up like Indians and dumped the tea into the harbor, so then there was the battle at Lexington and Concord, which is where the Red Coats, and the Blue coats (colonists) lined up to fire, but noone actually knows who fired the first shot
