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Yestattooshurt t1_jacj3ze wrote

Reply to comment by iwanttobehappy2022 in what if New England was under British empire after American Revolution by Consistent-Bat9690

Actually Vermont was it’s own country at the time, didn’t join the US until later, and in this scenario, it may never have.

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iwanttobehappy2022 t1_jacsj9i wrote

Vermont was never recognized as an independent country by both the UK, the 13 colonies, or any world power. You can’t be an independent nation if no one recognizes you as such. They claimed to be independent but were never recognized as independent and ended up asking to join the union.

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Yestattooshurt t1_jads87v wrote

Well it also wasn’t one of the 13 colonies, so whether or not it was recognized, it also was not part of New England at the time of the revolution

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wittgensteins-boat t1_jae4uo8 wrote

It was considered part of New Hampshire and New York, and there was a dispute between the two colonies as to who had control of the lands of Vermont..

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Yestattooshurt t1_jaf211t wrote

That I actually didn’t know. I had just always assumed there was a Vermont shaped hole up there until 1791.

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