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The British and the French both had pretty good slices of North America prior to the French and Indian War (aka The Seven Years War). The Brits and colonists prevailed and took a lot of territory. Many Brits wanted to make a quick move to get settlers in the newly acquired regions to make sure…
[Note: This is part of a new ongoing series about lost, altered or “never were” states] In July of 1919, Massachusetts state representative James H. Brennan went to the clerk’s office and filed a bill to make Boston a state. Ironically, the main issue for Brennan was unjust taxation. He was upset that Boston was…