Eventually, these nonviolent forms of protest and noncooperation came to a very harsh end when the Revolutionary War broke out during a confrontation at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, in which the British troops fired shots at the local militia in what is now known as the "shot heard round the world.... This war was fought, in the case of the newly formed United States, by local militias and the Continental Army. ... Despite having has won their freedom from the crown, this newly implemented government had very little power in establishing a standing army, in creating a stable econ...

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