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The Vermont Republic officially known at the time as the State of Vermont, was an independent state in New England that existed from January 15, 1777, to March 4, 1791. [1] The state was founded in January 1777, when delegates from 28 towns met and declared independence from the jurisdictions and land claims of the British colonies of Quebec ...
Morrissey, Charles T. Vermont: A history (WW Norton, 1984) popular; Peirce, Neal R. The New England States: People, Politics, and Power in the Six New England States (1976) pp 233–84; updated in Neal R. Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom, The Book of America: Inside the Fifty States Today (1983) pp 193–200
The colonization of the United States resulted in a large decline of the Native American population primarily because of newly introduced diseases. [3] A significant percentage of the Native Americans living in the eastern region had been ravaged by disease before 1620, possibly introduced to them decades before by explorers and sailors ...
Vermont in the American Revolution (3 C, 8 P) Archaeological sites in Vermont (2 C) C. Histories of cities in Vermont (1 C) Criminals from Vermont (3 C) D.
The ballad describes a period when Vermont deflected land claims from the British colonies of New Hampshire and New York. Whittier originally wrote the poem in 1828. It was published anonymously by The New-England Magazine in 1833. [2] Similarities in the last stanza with prose by Ethan Allen caused many to believe the entire work to be by Allen.
The United States of America was formed after thirteen British colonies in North America declared independence from the British Empire on July 4, 1776. In the Lee Resolution , passed by the Second Continental Congress two days prior, the colonies resolved that they were free and independent states.
In a recent US-China Business Council member survey, China's economic growth came in as American companies' second-biggest concern about the country — a "real constraint that was somewhat ...
The Old Constitution House in Windsor, Vermont, where the constitution of the Vermont Republic was signed. The first Constitution of Vermont was drafted in July 1777, almost five months after Vermont declared itself an independent country, now frequently called the Vermont Republic. It was in effect until its extensive revision in 1786.