Which state has the most interesting history?
>>968467
depends on which state you're in
>>968467
Probably NY. Just because of the city. That or DC.
I'm from SC, and we have some cool history because muh revolution and muh states rights/civil war. But I would say NYC really takes the cake.
>>968469
New jersey but only east New Jersey fuck the westerners
>>968474
NYCfag. There's always more to learn about this place, that's for sure.
Massachusetts. That might be biased because I grew up there though. The shot heard around the world was pretty neat as a kid.
I guess Texas is neat too, or Pennsylvania.
Virginia, NYC, Texas, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Pennsylvania.
Louisiana, Texas, California, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia
>>968467
As a non amerishit
>All existing states prior the civil war.
Since that seemed to be a time before the US government really centralized it shit. And US States were truly states that even had their own armies.
As for the othe rstates:
Hawaii- Ex Kingdom turned colony turned State
Alaska - Russian purchase and still pretty much a frontier in this age of mass infrastructure building.
Vermont spent a period of time as the world's least relevant country.
>>968467
Arkansas
It literally did nuffin. Should be annexed by Texas since they are basically the same.
T. Cali
>>968646
why is arkansas not pronounced the same as kansas?
New York City
Visited the place two years ago and literally every fucking block has some sort of historical building from speakeasys of the prohibition, places where important people were killed, gathering of this historical group of people, march happened in this street, what purpose this building had during the storming of NYC in the American Revolution, what area of NYC this place before it turned into this, etc. Sometimes if you look close enough, you can stumble upon some little patch of small graveyard plots right in the middle of NYC next to churches which are still there for historical purposes of tomb stones dating back the 1700s.
>>968478
You in north or south fellow state bro?
>>968658
Because the savages do not like to pronounce things correctly.
>>968585
My nigga
>>968658
Native Americans and the French. That's the explanation for everything in the Midwest.
>>968802
North
Pretty much the original 13 colonies have any history worth noting. The rest of the states are shit.
>>968585
What is the shot heard round the world?
>>968467
Floridian here.
Probably Massachusetts, Texas, NY, or D.C area.
>>969164
You accidentally added Central Jersey to North Jersey, you fucking Benny
>>970638
Certainly hope you don't call yourself American
>>968467
Virginia has the most history, followed by Massachusetts, New York, and South Carolina.
>>970638
The one that went through Franz Ferdinand's head.
No idea what it has to do with America though.
TEXAS
DID YOU KNOW THAT TEXAS IS THE ONLY STATE THAT AT ONE POINT WAS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY????
AFTER WE REBELLED AGAINST THOSE FUCKING BEANERS WHO VIOLATED OUR RIGHTS TO OWN NIGGERS BECAUSE THEIR ROMAN EMPEROR IN THE FAGGY HAT SAID IT WAS IMMORAL, WE BECAME THE MOST LOYAL, HARDWORKING, AND WEALTHY STATE OF ALL.
YOU GUYS BETTER NOT MESS WITH TEXAS, OR WE'LL THREATEN TO SECEDE AGAIN EACH AND EVERY TIME WE LOSE A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
HOOK 'EM HORNS!!!
>>970741
All the colonies were independent countries before they ratified the articles of confederation you goof.
>>970750
Colonies and vassals dependent on the mother island for trade and protection aren't "independent countries"
Texas was an independent republic.
>>970796
after they won the revolution the British recognized them as independent and sovereign states.
>US states
>history
>>970691
that is a map of east and west New Jersey you uneducated buffoon
>>968467
Virginia has a pretty interesting history, but I'm bias because that's where I live/ where my family has lived for at least the past 300 years
>>968585
Texan here.
Our forefathers were even bigger, more spoiled anglo-cunts than the colonial forefathers.
Bunch of fucking squatters.
>>970807
>MUH US HAS NO HISTORY OR CULTURE
Said the Eurocuck on an American imageboard who shills American culture without even realizing it since it hounds him from all side at all hours of the day because the sole reason he exists as a semi-independent (because let's be honest, your entire continent is a de facto US protectorate) entity is because of the United States
>>971076
he said states you cuck, not the whole country
>>971088
If the parts have no history then how can the whole have history, you mong.
>>971096
clearly you're retarded so there's no point in arguing with you
Utah, followed by New Jersey and South Carolina.
>>970638
What, you didn't HEAR ABOUT IT?
hhhhhhhhhhHA
>>968467
Texas, Hawaii might be second
The history of the Northeast intertwines with each other a good amount so it's not that unique, Texas has unique history that involves its own revolution and nationhood
Hawaii is pretty cool because of Kamehameha and the whole kingdom and stuff, but I might just think it's cool because I learned more about it recently but not enough to consider myself a Hawaii buff
Rhode Island
Texas
>secede from mexico
>be own country
>filled with mexicans, germans
>the bridge between the south and the west
ps im from texas.
And you arent
>>971308
>>ps im from texas.
>
>And you arent
Thank you, Jesus.
>>968467
Texas, you fucking mong. Was its own INDEPENDENT country for 10 years after defeating Mexico, until it joined the Union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Texas
>>971416
Tfw Americans were illegally immigrating into Mexican held Texas.
>>971416
until it was annexed into that union yung bitch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO_vlmbd72o&nohtml5=False
>>968467
Vermont. The ballad of the green mountain boys is awesome.
>>968467
Virginia history is well-documented and very influential, South Carolina's is the most depressing. New York and California are the most impressive, Louisiana's is the most unique.
>>971421
It's not our fault you have nothing to be proud of about your state.
>>971440
and they begged for it
Missouri has some interesting history.
>gone to war with about half its neighbors
>Mormon Wars
>Union vs Confederate issues
>Ozark culture
>Jesse James
>East vs West
>Saint Louis
>Pruitt-Igeo
>river boat trade
>Mark Twain
>Ferguson
>jumping point to head west
>>968467
my family has been here since before the united states was even a thing and it wasnt until the 1930s they started learning english
we are also 1960s Romania tier corrupt
>>971781
>my family has been in LA since before the USA was even a thing
Oh mine too, I had a fur trapper ancestor who lived here from the 1600s. He came down from Canada after the British fucked his kin over.
Was born in New Orleans and now I live in Mandeville btw. I might even know you.
Second/thirding Louisiana, but also Kentucky. It was a microcosm of the country during the Civil War, with the pro-slavery affluent central plantations and Lexington against the industrializing but impoverished eastern mountain counties blocking succession, with brother literally against brother in the border areas.
>>971416
Texas exists to keep texans separate from real people
Florida, Texas, California
Texas. Might be the only state that could legitimately become its own country these days. It makes bank and doesn't need US funding, it has been independent in the past and has claims on its republic, its history is multifaceted with the interplay between Mexico, Spain, and America, and its culture is distinct. The cowboy rancher era originated in the southwest, of which Texas played a large role in. Additionally, Texas is more than a state, its an ideal. Men from France, Mexico, America, really anywhere across the empires were all drawn to the region. These ambitious men sought to be legends in conquering the new world. Most think of revolutions as a movement that encourages freedom and self determination but in Texas, the revolution was all about greedy men wanting to stake their own claim in the land. Texas is way more interesting than any other state just cause of the controversy and legend surrounding it.
>>971847
>Texas is more than a state, its an ideal
jesus m8, dial it back a bit
>>971847
>Texans
Holy shit dude
>live in Florida
>nigga what the fuck is history?
I mean we have the fort at St. Augustine and that's it
>>971781
I've actually heard this, that the level of corruption there is actually pretty shocking. And stuff that happens in the bayou often just never gets talked about
>>971889
>I mean we have the fort at St. Augustine and that's it
You guys have some of the conservation work of theodore roosevelt under your belt
Texas, Our Texas! all hail the mighty State!
Texas, Our Texas! so wonderful so great!
Boldest and grandest, withstanding ev'ry test
O Empire wide and glorious, you stand supremely blest.
>>968467
California? Made for some great ending settings for those Steinbeck novels.
t. San Diegan
>>972198
Talking about the farming during the depression man. And the growth of California in the early to mid 1900s.
>>968467
>>968590
>>968617
>>970710
>>971055
This. Also a little bias but Virginia has probably the oldest and greatest amount of history. First permanent colony, first original colony, ties with Sir Walter Raleigh, House of Burgesses, Williamsburg, Jamestown, Jefferson, Washington, Norfolk, etc...
Virginia is top tier. But I'd also agree in general the original 13 colonies are the most interesting compared to any other states.
>>972207
Wow, that is AMAZING!
>>968467
Virginia.
>>970741
Actually, Vermont was an independent nation for a few decades.
>>971405
It's worth a visit, there are a lot of different landscapes and many are gorgeous in their own ways.
A word of advice though: Don't bother with the Alamo. It's a fucking letdown compared to the crazy shit that our history books claim, especially the basement.
>>972264
I love this stuff.
>>971072
lol kys
Ha, Ha, Wisconsin of course!
>>971102
clearly he is not
>>972219
Huell Howser is a goddamned California Hero who knows no boundaries!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBb2p8GHlnE
>TFW Howser was a jacked as fuck US Marine Corps. vet
>Seriously, he looks impressive in his early CA Gold shows
>>972264
>>972295
This is how Michigan got the UP too, if anyone is curious.
>>968467
U.S. state Georgia is interesting. He contain onto neighborhood of city Etova few earth and clay pyramids.
it's Virginia at the top and then a power gap and then everyone else is basically irrelevant
Virginia
Florida
California
New York
Honorable mentions of Louisiana, Utah and Hawaii, and this is coming from an Englishman.
>>971889
Seminole history is pretty impressive.
Texas or South Carolina. Texas because it was its own country and South Carolina cause it is the only state to rebel twice
>>972359
georgia is literally the australia of america
I wonder how mad those "texas is the only state to be its own country" fags feel about Vermont who was also its own country before them
>>974831
California was also its own country for a time. Vermont wasn't so much a country as the founding fathers didn't consider it populous of developed enough to be anything.
>>968467
Whatever it is, it's one of these.
The East Coast is just old enough to have a little bit of history, and it was the major theater of the Civil War.
By "The West", I really just mean California and Texas, since they actually go back and have interesting things that happened. Hollywood too, has a history of interest.
The rest is generally places that were settled by whitey under 200 years ago, and only got built up (as far as it went) about a hundred years ago in many cases. The west was admitted to the union as a manifest-destiny afterthought, much of it (which I inadvertently circles) during the 20th c, or scarcely before that.
My unironic vote narrows to NY, PA or VA, but I can't decide.
>>975021
oopsie~
>>971435
Only an ignorant child things what happened then and what happened now are same thing.
Fuck you viva la raza cunts.
You guys need to work on tourism. All I ever hear is "visit the States!"
Okay, but which one? Some are bigger population than my entire country. I can barely tell them apart.
>>975106
What kind of weather do you like?
>>970719
No, in America it refers to the first shot fired at Concord, beginning the American revolution.
It is a very self-centered usage of the term, sure. I for one have never heard it used for Franz Ferdinand's assassination before, though.
>>968467
The oldest ones
>>975202
Eh...cold/temperate? I'd die in the heat.
I'm in Iceland.
>>971847
The original cowboys were Mexican
>>972207
>flyover states
>>972207
The history of Los Angeles alone is more interesting than those flyover states
>>975279
The North East sounds like the place to go. It's where the US really started, so there's a ton of history. Outside of Maine and New York the states are small in sizr so you can travel to more than one.
Virginia
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
NYC
Texas
to name some
>>970741
>YOU GUYS BETTER NOT MESS WITH TEXAS, OR WE'LL THREATEN TO SECEDE AGAIN EACH AND EVERY TIME WE LOSE A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
top kek, this is why i love you guys
>>971712
>Williamsburg
not even going to lie
best vacation i ever had, it was seriously a 10/10 location
great people
great food
great history
t. Massachusetts
Texas
Missouri
Massachusetts
I guess Virginia
>>975557
>missouri
Literally who?
>>971147
I keep seeing New Jersey on that count. I don't know what is so interesting about it other than George Washington spent a winter in Morristown, which is one fucked up town these days, during the revolution?
>>975387
Alright, thank you.
Montana is literally just natives and Lewis and Clark.
>>975514
Come on fampai Hawaii has over 4,000 years of history. It's pretty cool.
>>968585
>pretty neat as a kid
How old are you?
Iowa went to war with Missouri and won like 8 miles of land.
We will never forget the losses in the war, three trees for beekeeping.
South Carolina probably has the best history per capita.
>Colonial constitution written by John Locke
>Charleston captured by fucking Blackbeard
>Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter
>Calhoun and nullification
>Start of the Civil War
>Still has black people speaking a african pidgeon language on the sea islands
>>972344
Speaking of, Michigan's history is pretty dope too.
>Jesuit missionaries
>Fur trade
>War of 1812
>Lumber boom
>Cars n shit
Does every state require a year of history specifically devoted to it in public schools?
Asking because I got a couple years of Virginia history in school but I imagine that'd be a real struggle in South Datoka
>>975696
don't forget the Mighty Mac!
bonus: also the country's largest maker of iron stoves in the 1850's
>>971076
nice over-defensiveness
>>968467
If your state isn't one of the 13 colonies, California, Texas, or Florida it is officially irrelevant
>>975581
Atlantic City has some neat history.
>>975705
I'm in Michigan and we spent an hour each day in 4th grade discussing State history. It was mostly "muh lumberjacks," "muh fur trappers," "muh Edmund Fitzgerald," and "muh industry."
We didn't get to talk about cool shit like the Civil War or the War of 1812 until later on.
>>975708
The best area in the State hands down.
>>975591
No problem, but if you have the means to go to the US I'd try to go all over. As an American Id give my third nut to be able tof afford a trip to Europe.
>>970741
>What is Vermont, California, and Hawaii
This is why Texans are trash.
First Bush, now them voting for Cruz.
>>968467
>The 13 colonies + ME, VT, DC, WV & FL
>TX
>CA
>UT
>LA
What is interesting about DC history? other than 1812 and Marion Barry
Is there any particular reason that Texans can't shut up about Texas? Like, is it a cultural thing? Something rooted in their history? No other state's residents are as absurdly proud and loud-mouthed about their state.
>>975790
Happy 499th birthday, Luther!
>>975705
We didn't have anything like that in Minnesota
>>975780
Best state. Weather's pretty nice today.
>>975838
>No other state's residents are as absurdly proud and loud-mouthed about their state.
>He's never met a New Yorker
>>975819
Im a college student 40,000 in debt. Nice to meet you.
>>975853
They are justified in living in a huge prosperous world city at the center of culture and business.
>>975850
Yeah, better than the shitty ass snow that keeps popping up this Spring.
>>975860
I'm also an Ohio and. I love my state but I agree that the whole state=federal is only alive still in Texas
>>975868
You're god damned right
>>975857
shoulda gone trades sonny
>>975480
I went to W&M, my student ID got me a 4 year free pass to anything in Colonial Williamsburg. I spent a lot of my first semester weekends dicking around there.
One of the wheelwrights was a total qt when I was there.
>Las Vegas isn't the capital of Nevada
Explain this burgers
>>975850
How's the poison water?
>>975876
Looking good for this weekend
>>975921
I'm a few hours south to enjoy it.
>>968467
More cool shit happened in Arizona and New Mexico before they became states than after.
>>970741
The niggers in your state make the best music
>>975917
They don't want the state to be completely run by the mafia, and Carson City was settled decades earlier because it's a much more hospitable location than Vegas.
1.North East
2.South West
3.Great Lakes States
4.Traditional South
5.Great Plains States
aside from one real city our state's main historical topic is corruption
shouldn't be too hard to guess
>>970741
>>975581
Atlantic City was pretty fucking relevant back in it's hayday.
>>975957
Reno would be a better capital for Nevada my famalam.
>>968467
I would say South Carolina. Charleston and neighboring islands are really a great place to visit. It's literally like stepping back into time. Just stay the fuck out of the Ghettos. Southern niggers are the most violent of the nigger kingdom. They will rob you and rape your family, but no before calling you a racist ass cracka.
Anyone have an alt-history picture with the US split down by the civil war? Like, if the confederates hadn't rejoined.
>>975857
>Going to college
Oh boy, am I glad to be a carpenter!
>>976108
Something like that, but modern. The territories would be snatched up, and I could see a few border counties defecting. I'm sure one exists.
>>976160
Would Indiana be considered flyover?
>>976203
But would they want to? If they won the war, would they want to join the North? I'm certain some would, but some wouldn't.
I just want a map, my man.
>>976260
Seems about right.
>>968467
New York.
>>976108
>perhaps with Kentucky and Missouri in the CSA if they really won that war
Oklahoma and Arizona Territory (Modern South Arizona and New Mexico) sided with the CSA.
Why does the USA not allow secession when it was born from secession?
>>975581
>Morristown
>fucked up town
have you ever been there? it's a wealthy white paradise
>>976297
due to the fourteenth amendment, a state seceding is denying US citizens' due process. basically, under the constitution, you're a US citizen first and there is no legal way for a state to strip you of that privilege.
also, the federal government needs all it's states, especially ones like texas or california that are economic powerhouses, because they give back to the motherland. since the army answers to the fed and not the states that's already a big enough disincentive not to leave. the civil war proved that the federal gov WILL go to war to stop states from leaving.
>>976260
The CSA was industrializing too, just at a much slower rate. IIRC the South was like the 4th or 5th most industrialized Nation in 1860 and they were actually constructing MORE rail connections than the North prior to the war. If the South had managed to survive as an independent sovereignty slavery would have died out naturally in ~20 years, and the South would probably have become a segregated half industrial half agricultural state like Brazil.
Not to mention, a huge part of the divide between North and South was cultural. The Southern states would have a compelling reason to stick together in a Southern confederacy for that reason alone. Never discount how much Southerners dislike "yankeedom" either.
>>976297
Might makes Right
Or that's the thought process anyways
>>976398
The 14th wasn't ratified until after the war was fought. It's hard to justify something ex-post-facto like that.
The Constitution prior to the war didn't say anything about Secession either way, but the Union decided to use force to have their way and won.
>>976415
>The 14th wasn't ratified until after the war was fought. It's hard to justify something ex-post-facto like that.
Well, yes, but the Civil War set the precedent. I personally believe that the Civil War was a wrong decision and made it the norm to not give a shit about states rights. but it makes sense that they'd make an amendment like that to prevent another civil war.
>>975868
New York has a shittier GDP than Texas
>>970638
The first battle of the revolutionary war.
>crazy fanatics
>witch hunts
>political radicals picking a fight with a world power
>actually knows what a Yankee is
Massachusetts history is a fantastic shit show to watch
Fuck boring states like texas
>>976828
Texas is also not without cultural centers. Austin has one of the biggest unis in the country. It's festivals get more numerous, larger in scale, and pull more people internationally by the year.
Houston and Dallas also host a shitload of art. They're important business centers along with San Antonio, and they're some of the most populous cities in the US.
My state is fucking ridiculous, but it's hard not to feel a little reverence for it.
>ctrl+f
>no MD
>bloodiest battle in U.S. history
>the reason for US naval dominance
>star-spangled banner
>america in miniature
>>976898
I didn't realize how based MD was until Martin O'malley ran his ad for the 2020 elections.
>>976892
>tfw Dallas is secretly one of the best places to live in the entire country
>>976297
Britain didn't allow secession either.
>>976898
VA here
>the reason for US naval dominance
Haha right, You ever been to Norfolk?
Have fun having to go to college in VA because Maryland has like 2 Universities
Get fucked Marycucks
>Visit friends I met on the internet in Florida.
>One of them has a masters in History.
>Ask him where I can visit to find interesting historical sites in Florida.
>"lol all we did was kill a bunch of natives, and then we named a lot of places after them so everything is k"
Really, did nothing interesting happen in Florida? Given it's current state of being, I'd imagine there has to be SOMETHING about the state.
>>976930
Norton is my hero.
>>975857
How do you manage that? I went to a state university and I don't think my entire education cost over $32,000 over four years. Unless you're a retard who tries to go to a major university without a good chunk of scholarships, there's no way you should rack up that amount of debt while working and going to college.
>>976870
If I was restricted to 50k a year, I'd probably live in southwestern Michigan or somewhere in the mountains that is less extreme in weather and a cheaper state, like Durango, CO or Asheville, NC
>>976935
Not him but I live in Norfolk. The area itself has a fun history. Norfolk and Portsmouth became cities so fast, that the surrounding counties got anxious that they were gonna be annexed so the towns bound together.
Princess Anne country became Virginia Beach. South Norfolk County became Chesapeake, Suffolk, Newport News, Hampton, etc also became cities on fear of Annexiation and there has been an end to annexiation in Virginia until 2018 because of how rampant it was in the seven cities.
Also, the seven cities hate each other for this very reason and it is why Hampton Roads has never solidified into one city.. Or why it doesn't have a major sports team (That's a cute Colosseum you have there, you aint gonna get an NBA team there and be able to get all that tax revenue and leave us hanging), or why there is no public transportation that connects the cities in any rational ways. Virginia beach is scared of the light rail because they think dindus are gonna come down to the oceanfront and enrich the tourists.
Oh yeah. There are only 42 independent cities in the country. 38 are in Virginia. (Independent cities are cities that answer only to the state, they are completely free of answering to county governments)
>>976957
Yeah I work around there occasionally. Fucking bridge traffic...
>>976973
Bridge and Tunnels bridge and tunnels.
The city could have quickly became similar to NYC, what with a developed city center with a downtown district etc (Norfolk) connected with boroughs that supply works into the denser urban area.
Except all the cities hate each other. Virginia Beach hates Norfolk so much, what with the Skyscrapers and other buildings for a waterfront downtown area they have built their own "City Center" to try and steer more big businesses to settle there. In reality, it's just a couple of square street blocks and a fountain with stripmalls nearby.
>>976957
Pretty interesting fellow Virginian, thanks
>>970741
LONGHORNS ARE FOR FAGGOTS
GIG EM NIGGER
>>970750
>>972229
>>975471
>>975814
>>975952
>>976012
DON'T LISTEN TO THAT FAGGOT, HE IS FROM CALIFORNIA.
I'M A TRUE TEXAN, I OWN A LARGE TRUCK, 4K ACERS OF LAND, 400 HEAD OF CATTLE, AND VOTE TO SECEDE EVERY YEAR.
>>976898
Antietam is the bloodiest single day of battle.
Gettysburg and Spotsylvannia both had more total casualties.
Custer died in Montana but he also killed a bear in South Dakota, so which is better? The Battle of the Little Bighorn is bad ass, but so it killing a bear and finding gold.
>>976914
>Tfw when you say Dallas you mean the Park cities
How does it feel to be a nigger.
KENTUCKY YOU FUCKS
>>971774
Missourian here.
It's not interesting except for the warring part.
Bleeding Kansas best day of my life.
I'm >>977104
Chickamauga, The Wilderness, Chancellorsville, Stones River, and Shiloh, all had more casualties as well.
I had to look it up.
Antietam is still the largest for any single day in American history though.
Just as interesting food for thought, more men died in two days of fighting at Shiloh (one of the first major battles of the war) than in the Revolution, the war of 1812, the French and Indian war, and the Mexican-American war, COMBINED.
More Americans died in the Civil War than all American conflicts up to the end of WWII COMBINED.
Hawaii
Whatever whoever is responding's state is, of course.
Wyoming, OP.
>>976935
ever been to annapolis?
have fun getting a criminal charge for doing 66 in a 65 mph zone
>>971889
Predate Virginia and Massachusetts Bay by a hundred years
>>968467
Texas
>>975705
In PA we had it as an elective in high school. We also had a class devoted to Pittsburgh history, and I assume Philadelphia did as well (but they're a bunch of fuckers).
>>970807
Well there is precolumbian history here too.
Washington state.
>many native tribes in prehistory with rich culture (chinook, lummi, quinault, makah, quileute, snohomish)
>first European explorer here was spaniard Juan Perez in 1774
>claimed by Russia
>Explored by captain cook
>home of the US-UK Pig War
>US and Britain have joint occupancy of the territory
>only state named after a president
>green flag
>>976938
Disney land
>>976938
Gotta understand that aside from St. Augustine, most of Florida was settled like 20 minutes ago. Go check out a book called "A Land Remembered", it tells the story of a Flirida settler (like 1850), and subsequently his kids.
There's a great bit where he spends like 3 days travelling to the nearest trading post, and the guy there says "hey we're at war with the north". And then he buys some shit and leaves, farms a bit and comes back and the guy's just like "yeah we lost". The whole book puts a lot of stuff in perspective like that, its pretty interesting.
NY, PA and NJ obviously.
TRI STATE REGION FO LYFE
>>975705
I had Texas history once in 3rd grade, again in 7th, and another time in my freshman year of high school. I think it's a way of indoctrinating people to be proper Texans.
>>968467
Well in California, the state paid anglos money for bringing in Indian scalps. What resulted is poor whites just went around scalping everyone for the money, Indian or not.
>>970638
It refers to the Battle of Lexington and Concord. A small skirmish by even Revolutionary War standards, but pretty huge political and morale importance for the Revolutionary cause.
The British Army based in Boston had learned that rebellious militias were storing arms in Concord. The militia knew the British would try to seize it and they begin to organize themselves into the so-called "Minutemen." Boston at the time was separated from the mainland by a tiny little isthmus. So there were two routes the British army could have taken "by land or by sea." Once it was observed which route they were taking, there was a famous notification system the rebels used to notify the militia "the Midnight Ride."
By the time the Brits had marched to Lexington green, a small unit of rebel militia had assembled. There was a tense standoff as the militia was ordered to disperse and they refused. Somebody fired a shot, nobody knows from which side, but it's been called "the shot heard round the world." Both sides opened up. The rebels, outnumbered and outtrained, were routed. Brits resumed their march on Concord but found no arms there. By now, late afternoon, militias had been called up from all over Massachusetts and were descending on the Brit regular army. The Brits had to retreat all the way back to Boston under constant fire. Not much later Boston was under siege by the rebels and the Brits ended up fleeing all the way back to Great Britain.
It's something every US kid learns in school. Most grow up to think it's kinda hokey and unimportant. I still think it's a great story though.
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USS CONSTITUTION
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Didn't know this, any books I should read or museums I should visit to learn more?
