History Challenge 01/12/09
January 12th, 2009 | 
Author: This week’s prize is the book “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression“.
On January 15th, 1777 rebels from this north east region of the New York colony assembled in Westminster and declared independence from the crown of Great Britain and of the colony of New York. Delegates first named the independent state “New Connecticut”, but later that year it was changed to _________, which is French for “Green Mountain”. Name this territory which was the independent state of “New Connecticut”.
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Answer: Vermont
Winner: Jerry from Newtown, PA
The resource for this weeks challenge came from the following websites and books:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Republic
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=154