On April 19, 1775, from an unknown origin along the open plains of Lexington, Massachusetts Bay, a musket shot sailed through the open air between where an American militia and a British troop regiment were currently standing off. In its wake, an uncoordinated British retaliation left several militiamen dead. The end of salutary neglect had brought an increasingly tighter grip on the colonists of the still-budding British America, from the restrictive trading policies placed by the Sugar Act to the direct tax enacted by the Stamp Act, culminating in the grouped “Intolerable Acts” of 1774. Various congresses had formed to discuss the Stamp Act and Intolerable Acts to no avail, openly rejected and scoffed at by King George III, the reigning
