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Why did the colonists break away from England?

England needed money for more supplies after the last French/Indian war in 1763, so they started axing the colonists on paper, tea, newspaper, and much more. The colonists got angry and some of them stopped buying things from England and others didn't even pay the tax because they thought it was wrong for them to tax the colonists. Some of them didn't even pay the tax. So, one day in December of 1773, they dumped British tea into the Boston River. That event is now called the "Boston Tea Party." Afterwards, a war broke out between them. This war was called "The Revolutionary War" which started in 1775. In 1776, one year after the Revolutionary War had begun, the American Congress made the Declaration of Independence that would separate America from England, however, to do so, they had to win the Revolutionary War. Soon, after a cold winter and a horrible war, victory was theirs! They had won the war and had become the 13 United States of America!