CLASSIC: That Time Vermont Was an Independent Republic

Ridiculous History

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🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Today Vermont is known for its progressive politics, beautiful forestry, Bernie Sanders and Ben and Jerry's. It's not a state you'll hear much about outside of the US and, for many Vermont natives, that's just fine. But once upon a time, Vermont was a very different place -- in fact, for a number of years, it was an independent Republic. How did this come about? How did it become part of the modern United States? Tune in to find out.

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0:00.0	Hey, have you ever been to Vermont?
0:02.8	I have not been to Vermont, but I do like Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
0:09.9	Yeah, I know that's so cliche, everybody's so many thing anybody knows about Vermont. It's where It's where fish is from I think right I don't fish from Vermont. Yeah also
0:16.2	famous for a stunning autumnal foliage people say they drive to Vermont and
0:22.8	lovely level-headed people apparently.
0:24.8	Mm-hmm.
0:25.8	Yeah, and Bernie Sanders, right?
0:27.8	He's a Vermont.
0:28.8	Bernie Sanders, yeah.
0:29.8	Most famous is being a cousin of Larry David's, I think. He did some other stuff. He did
0:35.2	want to catch up with them. But made some memes if I'm not mistaken.
0:38.8	He did some memes. He got some mittens. Yeah, but he's got a long and varied career and he is a Vermont guy and once upon a time as I believe you and I were most surprised to find, Vermont was not a state, but it was an independent republic.
0:57.0	That's right, it sure was, and we're going to hear all about it on this classic episode of
1:00.8	ridiculous history.
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