Was the American Revolution inevitable? Was it possible for the American colonies to remain colonies of the British?

THIS IS A PERSUASIVE PAPER! It must be well documented and use scholarly sources. Your opinion, while part of the text, should not compose the majority of the paper. Was the American Revolution inevitable? Was it possible for the American colonies to remain colonies of the British? Could we drink tea at 2:00 each day? Or, was the rule of the British entirely unacceptable? Did the distance between the colonies and the mother country lead to the problems? Were individuals who lived in the colonies so inherently different from their British counterparts that u