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Vermont, later bordered on three sides by U.S. territory, ended negotiations with Britain and instead negotiated terms to become part of the United States. [5] Many of its citizens favored political union with the United States rather than full independence.
Vermont became the first state to enter the Union after the original 13 states. The revised constitution of 1786, which established a greater separation of powers, continued in effect until 1793, two years after Vermont's admission to the Union.
- The Vermont Republic: 1777-1791
- The State of Muskogee: 1799-1803
- The Republic of West Florida: 1810
- The Republic of Fredonia: 1826-1827
- The Indian Stream Republic: 1832-1835
- The California Republic: 1846
Before it became a U.S. state, Vermont spent 14 years as a de facto independent republic. The breakaway had its roots in a dispute with the neighboring state of New York, which claimed Vermont’s land as its own. By the 1770s, Vermont-based militias such as Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys had resorted to attacking government officials and rent col...
Few figures from early American history had a more colorful resume than William Augustus Bowles. The swashbuckling Marylander served in a British loyalist unit during the American Revolution, but left the army in 1779 and married into a tribe of Creek Indians in Spanish Florida. After becoming a Creek chief, Bowles hatched a scheme to unite the Ind...
In the early 1800s, the United States and Spain were embroiled in a dispute over “West Florida,” a small slice of the Gulf Coast that encompassed parts of what are now Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Spain claimed the land as its own, while the United States argued it had bought it from the French as part of the Louisiana Purchase. The...
Nearly a decade before there was a Republic of Texas, there was the shorter-lived—and much less successful—Republic of Fredonia. The ill-fated state dates to the mid-1820s, when an American land speculator named Haden Edwards secured a grant from the Mexican government to settle 800 pioneer families around Nacogdoches, Texas. A series of local feud...
In 1832, the residents of the tiny New England community of Indian Stream declared independence—from whom, they weren’t entirely sure. Ever since the end of the American Revolution, Indian Stream had been at the center of a border dispute between the United States and British-controlled Canada. Both sides claimed that the prescribed borderline plac...
One of history’s shortest revolutions began on June 14, 1846, when a small outfit of American settlers staged an uprising against the authorities of Mexican-controlled California. After seizing the town of Sonoma and arresting its Mexican commandant, the rebels raised a new flag—a picture of a grizzly bear and a lone red star—and declared the forma...
The area now known as Vermont was part of the colony of New York, but didn't want to take sides in the war between New York and Britain. So, in 1777 American colonists assembled to declare independence from both.
- Alia Hoyt
Nov 27, 2022 · A 1784 map shows the legal limbo that once surrounded what is today Vermont. The map labels the territory as “Part of the State of New York now commonly known as Vermont.” Library of...
Why did it take 14 years before Vermont became part of the United States? In 1777, the thirteen colonies were fighting the Revolutionary War with England. They were too busy to stop Vermont from becoming an independent state.
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Nov 9, 2009 · Interesting Facts. Vermont was initially settled in the early 18th century by both the British and French, and conflicts between the two nations continued until the French defeat in the...
