Because of high taxes, or taxation without representation✓Correct answer
Because the British king abolished slavery in the colonies
Because the colonists wanted to join France
Because Britain refused to defend the colonies from attack
Official answer
because of high taxes (taxation without representation)
because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering)
because they didn't have self-government
Explanation
Parliament taxed the colonies while giving them no members in it, quartered soldiers in colonial homes and restricted colonial self-government. Those grievances, not any of the alternatives, led to war.