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A New Hampshire man holds a sign advocating for secession during the 2012 presidential election. In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States; but may loosely refer to leaving a state or territory to form a separate territory or new state, or to the severing of an area from a ...
New England in the USA in red. New England. Proposed state or autonomous region: Republic of New England [103] Advocacy group: New England Independence Campaign, [104] [105] [103] New England Autonomy Movement, [106] People's Initiative of New England [107] Alaska. Alaska. Ethnic group: Alaskan Creoles, Alaska Natives, Americans, Russian Americans
"A Poor Man’s Fight: Civil War Enlistment Patterns in Conway, New Hampshire." Historical New Hampshire 43 (1988): 21–40. Renda, Lex. Running on the Record: Civil War-Era Politics in New Hampshire (U of Virginia Press, 1997). online review; Scott, Kenneth. "Press opposition to Lincoln in New Hampshire," New England Quarterly 21 (1948): 326–41.
Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the 14th and 19th U.S. secretary of state under presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore.
The resulting "New Hampshire Grants" dispute led to the rise of the Green Mountain Boys and the later establishment of the Vermont Republic. New Hampshire's claim upon the land was extinguished in 1764 by royal order of George III , and in 1790 the State of New York ceded its land claim to Vermont for 30,000 dollars .
New Hampshire's major regions are the Great North Woods, the White Mountains, the Lakes Region, the Seacoast, the Merrimack Valley, the Monadnock Region, and the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee area. New Hampshire has the shortest ocean coastline of any U.S. coastal state, with a length of 18 miles (29 km), [26] sometimes measured as only 13 miles (21 km).
New Hampshire man had no car and no furniture, but died with a big secret, leaving his town millions. KATHY McCORMACK and ROBERT F. BUKATY. November 21, 2023 at 9:13 AM.
In the 1990s, Randy Kuhl, from rural upstate Hammondsport, had advocated secession by regularly proposing bills to that effect while he was a state senator. His 1999 bill would have New York City, Long Island, Westchester and Rockland Counties become a separate state of New York, while the rest of the counties would be grouped as West New York ...