What motivated the American colonists to revolt
and fight for independence from Great Britain?

Many things! The main cause was taxation without representation, meaning that the colonists had no representation in congress, and therefore believed that they ought to be independent and that a country overseas could not tax them for this reason.

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”

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