New Hampshire and New York had received such grants, and the local governments quickly dispatched families to settle the land. It soon came to light that both New Hampshire and New York had claims to the same land. Settling families were forced into confrontation, and minor turmoil gripped the Green Mountains until January 15, Initially called the Republic of New Connecticut and commonly known as the Republic of the Green Mountains, the Vermont Republic was founded with the intent to rejoin the Union after the matter of land rights had been settled.
In the interim, the Constitution of Vermont was drafted with the help of Dr. It was markedly progressive for the time, taking inspiration from the Pennsylvania Constitution and allowing all men to vote regardless of property status. Additionally, the Vermont Constitution outlawed adult slavery, setting male slaves free at 21 and releasing female slaves at They had much more pressing issues at hand—the Revolutionary War was in full swing.
The Green Mountain Boys had previously assisted colonial troops in the war effort, famously taking Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, with soon-to-be turncoat Benedict Arnold.
Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. Except for Hawaii, Indiana At Four Corners, in the southeast, Utah meets Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona at right angles, the only such meeting of states in the country. Utah became the 45th member of the union on Jan. Bordered by the Canadian province of British Columbia to the north and the U. With an abundance of Tennessee became the 16th state of the union in It is just miles wide, but stretches miles from the Appalachian Mountains boundary with North Carolina in the east to the Mississippi River borders with Missouri and Arkansas in the west.
Louisiana sits above the Gulf of Mexico at the mouth of the Mississippi River, bordered by Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east and Texas to the west. Originally colonized by the French during the 18th century, it became U. In January of , the people living in the Vermont territory declared themselves independent and called their nation the Vermont Republic.
Vermont drafted its own constitution that year, which was the first written constitution for an independent entity in North America. Its basis was the same as most of the colonial constitutions… that power is given to the government by the people.
The main reason for declaring independence was to get free of New York. The people of Vermont believed they were sufficiently distinguished from the people of New York to consider themselves a separate nation. Being busy with the American Revolution , New York did not object.
These distinguishing points included outlawing slavery and granting the right to vote to all adult males, whether or not they owned property. These were radical liberal ideas for the time. Vermont issued its own money and operated its own postal service. Vermonters intended from the start to eventually become a state, though it took a while for them to get that official recognition.
They were laying the groundwork for it from the beginning, though. During the Revolution, Ethan Allen and some like-minded politicians approached British-controlled Quebec about joining that province. However, they were rebuffed pending the outcome of the war.
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