1) What did Ralph Waldo Emerson refer to the first shot fired at Lexington as?

According to Wikipedia:

The phrase comes from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" (1837) and refers to the first shot of the American Revolution at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, where the first British soldiers fell in the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.

Explanation:

b. they tried to evict the squatters from the area.

so sorry if wrong

i think the fact that abraham lincoln was a tyrant

or probably like what the other person said from sitting in the chair to get assasinated xd

~batmans wife dun dun