Concord, Lexington Celebrate 250th Anniversary of American Revolution's 'Shot Heard Round the World'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Following the Boston Massacre, the oppressive Intolerable Acts, and the lasting grievance of taxation without representation, the colonists began organizing militias as a final recourse in defense of their right to self-government.
41% : In 1773, colonists frustrated by the British Crown's implementation of taxation without representation, dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor.

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