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Mar 15, 2010 · Thomas Chittenden became Vermont’s first governor in 1778. Throughout the 1780s, Congress refused to acknowledge that Vermont was a separate state independent of New York.
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Feb 4, 2023 · The Republic of Vermont, as it was called, was a trailblazer of sorts. Per the Journal of the American Revolution, in its short, 14-year existence, the republic guaranteed universal male suffrage, abolished slavery, and established public funding for education — all of this enshrined in the national constitution, which predated its American counterpart by a decade.
It is interesting that Vermont used to be an independent state during the 14 years before that, being outside both the USA and the British colonial empire. Namely, Vermont declared its independence from Britain in early 1777, i.e. soon after the 13 U.S. colonies which had founded the U.S. (those 13 colonies had declared their independence by the famous declaration of 1776).
Dec 1, 2019 · Texas is a famous example, having existed as the Republic of Texas between 1836 and 1846 before joining the Union. Lesser known is the Hawaiian Kingdom, which existed for over 100 years before being annexed by the United States in 1898. However, the honor of being the first secessionist state in North America goes not to Hawaii or Texas, but ...
Apr 6, 2023 · For 100 years—from the 1850s to the 1950s—Vermont was the most Republican state in the nation. But today it is the most Democratic. Journalist Chris Graff considers some factors behind the switch from “red to blue,” including interstate highways, the arrival of IBM in Vermont, and the reapportionment of the Vermont House.
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5 days ago · In 2000 Vermont passed a law recognizing same-sex civil unions (the first such law in the United States). In April 2009 an attempt by the governor to veto a bill permitting same-sex couples to marry was overturned by the legislature, and Vermont became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriages —and the first to do so through the legislature rather than the courts.
