The negotiations between the Vermont Republic and New York were much more successful, and on October 7, , an agreement was reached. On March 4, , Vermont was officially admitted to the Union as a free state opposing the slave state of Kentucky, officially ending the sovereign Vermont Republic.
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Critics savaged stodgy and moralistic melodramas, and scoffed at lighter fare like Starsky and Ilse Koch, wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany. Spain claimed the land as its own, while the United States argued it had bought it from the French as part of the Louisiana Purchase.
The United States allowed Spain to continue administering the territory, but the issue later came to a head on September 23, , when a small band of American settlers attacked a Spanish fort in Baton Rouge. After killing two Spaniards and taking possession of the fort, the settlers declared the formation of an Independent Republic of West Florida and raised a new flag: a white star on a blue background.
They elected a president, wrote a constitution and established a capital city at St. Francisville, Louisiana, but their nation was short-lived. Texas, , Texas Prestatehood Map. Nearly a decade before there was a Republic of Texas, there was the shorter-lived—and much less successful—Republic of Fredonia. The ill-fated state dates to the mid s, when an American land speculator named Haden Edwards secured a grant from the Mexican government to settle pioneer families around Nacogdoches, Texas.
A series of local feuds and corruption charges later saw the contract revoked, but Edwards did not go quietly. On December 16, , he and his brother Benjamin marched on Nacogdoches with 30 supporters and seized control of a small fort. Edwards tried to foster international relations by signing a treaty with the members of a local Cherokee band, but large-scale support for his revolution never materialized.
Stephen F. Ever since the end of the American Revolution, Indian Stream had been at the center of a border dispute between the United States and British-controlled Canada.
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