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The Green Mountain Boys and the Vermont Republic
1777
Montpelier, Vermont
Kenneth C. Zirkel · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Settlers holding disputed grants formed a militia, then declared an independent republic that ran its own post office and coinage for fourteen years before joining the Union. Its 1777 constitution was the first in America to abolish adult slavery outright and to grant suffrage without property.
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