Why Were The Colonists Justified In The Revolutionary War

Even though the colonists were breaking British law, the colonists had a right to rebel for they were unfairly taxed without representation and subjected to a king over 3000 miles away. Some people still on both the colonials and the British crown were attempting to avoid a full scale war even after they had begun fighting, like in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Most of the colonists did not want war because these were the people that they had been living with, and protected by the British for over 150 years and the idea of being alone and self governing was hard for the colonists to comprehend and prepare for. Though that was how most felt about the situation at the time, neither side would budge or compromise.
The British taxed the colonists