Every US State That Used to Be a Country

Believe or not, 4 different states in the United States used to be full-fledged countries - those being Texas, California, Hawaii, and Vermont. The latter of which I saved for last because there’s an underlying pattern that happened with all of these countries that didn’t happen with Vermont, and it explains a lot about the United States today and its past history. But, I don’t think you will truly understand what it is until you hear all of their histories.
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[@MHX11]

I really like this longer-form content honestly the Vermont story was really surprising to me

[@ahfa2010]

I really like you

[@trebbiegeo]

Thank you! Yeah, Vermont seems like a bit of wildcard lol

[@fredngo8044]

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[@BiancaOrtega-z9t]

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[@ahfa2010]

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[@Nishchal_Malhotra197]

So for the sake of not being a part of New York, Vermont declared independence and rejoined the US?

[@rubikscuber9277]

Kinda. This video leaves out the fact that New Hampshire also had claims on Vermont. So the Vermonters felt like they were being pulled on by both sides.

[@SixtyNice420]

It feels weird to see Trebbie uploading a long video. Regardless of that, it was a very good one!

[@trebbiegeo]

Thanks! I’m gonna try and branch out and do some longer videos as well so I’m glad to see that you enjoyed it :D

[@AbuWyatt]

False. This video was inaccurate af.

[@NightmareGalaxyGaming]

it’s not lomg

[@Real-cosmic-player89]

@@AbuWyattif you hate this channel,GO AWAY!

[@AbuWyatt]

@@trebbiegeo maybe make them more accurate if you do

[@Deltheus]

You forgot some nations like the republic of the floridas 1817 the republic of west florida and a few more

[@MegaToonzNetwork]

The Kingdom of Deltheus

[@Deltheus]

@@MegaToonzNetwork ?

[@JAKEGAMES4]

@@MegaToonzNetworkno October 2

[@leverettrob]

Republic of West Florida 1810

[@haondoesyt]

He just summarized my entire Texas history class in about 3-7 minutes. BRUH.

[@cuberrt]

Don't forget the states that declared independence from Britain, before the formation of the United States New Hampshire Massachussetts Rhode Island Virginia South Carolina Also the ones that declared independence from the United States, before joining the Confederacy Georgia Florida Mississippi Alabama Louisiana Arkansas (North Carolina & Tennessee joined the confederacy directly)

[@MewxPro]

And Texas.

[@cuberrt]

@@MewxPro Texas was mentioned in the video, so I didn't include it.

[@ethancbaker2002]

South Carolina did both lol. They were really radical

[@Stormageddon571]

Didn't know Arkansas didn't join immediately

[@ole_smokey_south]

North Carolina joined the confederacy the day after they seceded so I guess you could consider it an independent country that lasted a day. Now for Tennessee depending on what you read you get different answers, one of them being that even though Tennessee seceded in June, they officially joined the confederacy in July (examples that support this include the provisional army of Tennessee and how the 11 stars and bars flag was adopted in July) however Tennessee also signed a confederate military pack around the same time they seceded so give or take 🤷

[@Captainkirk0601]

1800s:American immigrants Present:Mexican immigrants

[@Zer0Verze]

@@Captainkirk0601 Free land is free land

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

It's not free. PAY YOUR TAXES!

[@ninuskas]

Idk what this is about

[@Captainkirk0601]

@ninuskas I was talking about the texas part

[@ninuskas]

@@Captainkirk0601 ok

[@zachatck64]

Technically if you want to include the states that succeeded in the Civil War, South Carolina was independent from December 1860 until February 1861, as well as the other states that succeeded before joining the Confederacy.

[@zachatck64]

Still a good video 👍

[@WeegeeSlayer123]

True. South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi even adopted their national flags.

[@MewxPro]

@@WeegeeSlayer123Texas was also de facto a republic for a few weeks after seceding and joining the CS.

[@Stormageddon571]

I think that would add South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Texas, and Louisiana

[@akalatia]

very high quality and good video

[@Alan-lv9rw]

Texas was independent for 9 years without knowing if it would join the U.S. California was independent for 25 days and knew the entire time it would soon join the U.S.

[@AbuWyatt]

9 years, 11 months ... Just say 10.

[@MrPoopyDino]

so?

[@The_Disappearing_Ms_Herrod]

@@AbuWyatt I usually do.

[@camerong5349]

great video!

[@Sly88Frye]

4:55 I'm surprised how much significance Sonoma has. I'm from Santa Rosa which is the most populated city in Sonoma County by far and the most populated city in wine country, but Sonoma is actually just one town east. It's very nice there and where their beautiful Central Park is there are buildings there that are of an old west style that have restaurants and even an Inn.

[@Emo_PonyAlli]

What a neat video and a neat one loved it so much can't wait for more good videos like this, Loved this so much man.

[@HahnJames]

Nice video, Trebbie!

[@SarahLu-s3d]

Ai

[@NateRobloxYT]

love the long form content, reminds me of 2021

[@dylanguerrero3889]

well how the tables have turned 0:47

[@NachoAverageCheese]

Bro 😭

[@Captainkirk0601]

Mexico should have built a wall instead of attacking them

[@FilipinoNoob69420]

Turns the how tables have well

[@republicofminutemanball3916]

We need a Mexican version of Illegals in my yard

[@TrustyStick]

😭

[@AdrielEnteroAntronoms]

5:16 I Like How he was just talking about Sonoma California and then showed Bliss hill/ Windows Xp Backround Wich is located in Sonoma

[@tayazom]

i like comments like this

[@drivernjax]

What isn't well known about Vermont (and Kentucky) becoming a state is that Vermont actually ratified the US Constitution. Vermont and Kentucky were the last two states to ratify the Constitution to become states. In fact, if Vermont had ratified the Constitution a few weeks earlier, it could have been the 13th state ahead of Rhode Island. This is the reason the flag that flew over Ft. McHenry during the War of 1812 had 15 stars and 15 stripes even though we had 18 states at the time.

[@melissalangan3953]

Great information! Love it❤

[@dylanfield7098]

I’m surprised nobody here is talking much about Hawaii’s story. It seems by far the saddest and most cruel. They lost so much and their own language almost went extinct because of the government banning usage of Hawaiian

[@Roblox_ym15]

Countryball in a video? Good!

[@jasonthecoolgamer3000]

Did you know Rhode Island used to be independent county

[@Iceyvr_vrgtag]

1:08 that's my birthday

[@canadasmaps]

not true u we’re not born in 1835

[@rajaram1916]

@@canadasmapsye

[@Noah.Mm2-cw1ho]

@@canadasmapshe meant month and day dummo

[@charlesextract1703]

⁠@@Noah.Mm2-cw1hobro it’s a joke dummo

[@Unknown..corruptt83]

​​@@canadasmaps he is referring to October 2 only obviously ?????

[@IBerianTeen]

0:32 its crazy how there was american-immigrants to mexico and nowadays mexico is the biggest immigrant to the US 😭

[@Real-cosmic-player89]

Amazing video bro!

[@AbuWyatt]

False. Terrible video.

[@Real-cosmic-player89]

@@AbuWyatt that is to you,if you hate this video go somewhere else it’s not that hard.

[@AbuWyatt]

@Cosmic-u2f or make better videos that are accurate... It's not that hard.

[@Real-cosmic-player89]

@@AbuWyatt I dare you to literally tell google or chatGPT to answer the question of “states that used to be countries”and if you get the answer that this guy got,you are the false person.

[@AbuWyatt]

@Cosmic-u2f you use Google, I'll use my university degrees. Learn English if you're going to challenge people.

[@FarzadMashal]

New sub 🎉

[@ObejctCrusader125]

You forgot Florida

[@russianfederationyoutube]

the republic of west florida… was located in louisiana

[@MoscowMapper2009]

@@russianfederationyoutube republic of east Florida

[@russianfederationyoutube]

@@MoscowMapper2009 oh

[@ObejctCrusader125]

@@russianfederationyoutube There was a Republic of the Floridas

[@lauramuriedas7578]

Whaaaaa

[@sgabig]

9:30 Conversely from the Louisiana Purchase 💰 🇫🇷 there are parts of Canada 🇨🇦 that should be part of the US 🇺🇸

[@Shamonevr]

Hey, I'm related to Polk.

[@nuniel8398]

Why did you show a clip of Contemporary Era soldiers when you were talking about the Texas Revolution? (1:35)

[@Chance_Rice]

You mean modern times not common era, CE is dumb but that began 2k+ years ago

[@nuniel8398]

@@Chance_Rice Shoot, your right. Thanks for telling me!

[@jblover_3014]

Autumn voyage was a fitting track for a place like Vermont

[@edbrown5665]

6:00 largest mistake the United States ever made

[@Man4God4eva]

What about the Republic of West Florida in 1810? Granted, it was only part of the state of Louisiana, but it'd be nice if you covered it.

[@RTX-1280-Ti]

“Believe it or not 4 states used to be countries.” The 13 colonies: 😐🫥

[@AnimationEli132]

The 13 colonies was a British territory, not only that, but it was also America. What I’m trying to say is the 13 colonies was never a country, it was the US

[@tylerhendrix14]

​@@AnimationEli132 Your comment makes no sense. What are you talking about?

[@EdrakeBoga]

The 13 colonies were originally part of Britain, then changed to US after the war. So technically, the 13 colonies were part of an already existing country.

[@EdrakeBoga]

@@tylerhendrix14 They’re trying to say that the 13 colonies were initially part of Britain, then broke off from Britain to become the USA.

[@RTX-1280-Ti]

@@EdrakeBoga there was a period of time after they declared their independence where the colonies (or states I don’t remember what they were called during that time) were not so united, they were pretty much just individual countries until 1789 when Washington was inaugurated.

[@romad275]

Actually, between the declaring of independence on July 2, 1776 (yes, that is the correct date, July 4th saw the passing of the official press release about the vote on the 2nd) and March 1, 1781 when the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, went into effect the 13 former colonies were de facto 13 individual nations in a military alliance (think World War II alliance of the US & the UK).

[@Shamonevr]

Hey, im also related to king Kamehameha

[@Lastbrickstanding99]

There were also a few states that where “almost countries” these include Utah, Oklahoma, and Maine

[@belembolanos7214]

The battle of Gonzalez

[@daveweiss5647]

I would say technically all if the first 15 or so states (before the constitution was ratified) were independent... also possinly all the states that seceded but before the CSA was created would have technically been independent at one point, I would add also possibly the country of Deseret (SP?) Which was the independent Mormon Nation in the southwest which included modern Utah and parts of modern Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona...which the US actually fought a war against before becoming part of America...

[@williamtheeggy_yt_eggy]

1:08 that is also my grandma's birthday

[@Oren18-z6f]

6:19 So goku disvovered Hawaii

[@Wyaxfr]

Underrated comment

[@carterstroud5403]

You have forgot one state Louisiana or more specifically the republic of west Florida (located in what are now known as the Florida parishes) it lasted 2 months

[@USStateOfSiberiaGHWBush1992]

I like Hawaii as a U.S. State, but this force by threat of the King if he didn't give U.S. full power over Hawaii should have given Hawaii an option to 'retry' the commission. Since the King was forced to choose between life and death.

[@GOOFYGAMER10]

The Alamo is in my city it's in san antonio tx

[@MukiBlalock]

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[@Levi_Landon_2024]

8:45 that flag is the green mountain boys

[@EldaVera-z2g]

1:55 this event was called the goliad massacre and I believe there was some survivors because a woman snuck in and helped the Texans and tejanos escape also in the massacre there was a leader of the Texans and the tejanos that was forced to watch all his men get executed from a chair and then he begged Santa Anna to shoot him in the heart but instead they shot him on the head

[@Carson-h8e]

New Connecticut…nah it should have been old Hampshire

[@Octovoid]

So it wasn’t a full on independent country but once Minnesota tried to secede but like a week later they were admitted into the union

[@stischer47]

Remember that the flag that flew over the Alamo was the Mexican tricolor with 1824 in the middle, representing the Mexican Constitution of 1824 that Santa Anna had usurped.

[@MarioRmz1996]

The Texans like to make it look as if they were at the verge of defeat, but the NorthEast states helped Texas to become independent supplying weapons, ammo and many more supplies Mexico just got 80% of their railroad and mining infraestructure decimated 20 years prior due to its own independence war, and barely could hold it together main reason why the gvnmt of the time decided to take such a risky move as accepting immigrants from a neighboring country.

[@Sigma-yt-321]

Just to me, I feel like the oregon county whatever it's called should be on the list (my opinion)

[@erichatch912]

Hi everyone! Question about independent states - what about Utah? Didn’t it act as a separate country before Washington required it to have a non-LDS governor?

[@Chance_Rice]

There was a time were they "declared" independent but that really meant nothing

[@Thelivingshrek1]

Vallejo named a city in California after him

[@TreyFishman]

You forgot florida

[@italianball6653]

Florida was part of Spain. Then the United States annexed it, never an independent country.

[@reddysetty]

@@italianball6653West Florida

[@italianball6653]

@@reddysetty west Florida isn’t a state. You missed the point of the entire video,

[@MoscowMapper2009]

@@italianball6653 Republic of East Florida it was a independent country for a year look it up

[@justthatoneaviatorgeographer]

why is the only one I knew was a country is VERMONT XD

[@mrmonkow]

Hi

[@jzhu6435]

Actually some Texan soldiers managed to escape from Goliad

[@IdoNomb]

I like that you mentioned that Sam Houston caught the Mexican army while sleeping, 99% of the videos exclude that.

[@HelpJaspreetSingh]

YESSSS VERMONT WAS MENTIONED 🍁🍁🍁

[@amazingkenzZ]

2:04 the Alamo battle killed Davy Crockett😊

[@The_Disappearing_Ms_Herrod]

And Jim Bowie and William Travis.

[@Dabbingcats]

sam houston is one of my ancestors

[@USStateOfSiberiaGHWBush1992]

Utah offers water; California offers alcohol...

[@IanGonzalezZuniga]

Anyone here that lives in Texas like me San Antonio

[@amazingkenzZ]

What about the archives war?

[@amazingkenzZ]

I learned all of this in class…

[@WaterBuddyGamez]

You forgot the dust bowl

[@Lonnplays]

Oregon was technically a country, the Oregon country

[@StupidityAvenue]

RIP Republic of West Florida, and literally every single Southern State that joined the CSA.

[@haydenc41_82]

Idk if the Utah territory was ever a country but I also feel like it wasn’t NOT a country at one point lol

[@Adam-wb5fz]

1:38 blud its the 1830's

[@Jules24122]

whats that supposed to mean against the story

[@raborland]

They forgot [Muskogee and republic of the Floridas>](Florida) and Desseret State (MOSTLY utah)

[@jimgreen5788]

Trebbie, although I may be nitpicking here, I'm going to bring up anyway that it's Santa Ana, not Anna. Along the same lines, the unnamed queen mentioned at 7:33 was Lili’uokalani = lee-lee oo-oh-kah-LA-knee.

[@Jase-fp2cp]

If we are talking about every US state that used to be countries, we have to mention Florida or what it was called The Seashells Republic

[@aarontorres732]

History repeating itself in the first one 💀💀

[@zdoko2490]

What about Utah? It used to be the kingdom of Deseret

[@nunenoosama9153]

Hawaii sugar blew up how crazy did those kids get!?

[@funtimewithfalco]

What about the conch Republic?

[@killawhale112ORC]

Most american wars were won bc our enemies thought “theres no way they would attack us at this time. That would be insane.”

[@ProJaXon-km5qx]

If Texas was part of Mexio and Louisiana was part of French you should include Louisiana in this.

[@TheEmpireofTheSSXT]

You made a mistake. Applying the main point of the video at the beginning. See, now that the viewer knows, they will inevitably leave and go on to other videos.

[@Skies_Lavender]

What about conch republic in the Florida keys

[@TheHotDogMan1330]

Hi mom

[@Bentley724-GorillaTag]

English (Alaska)

[@DumDum6978]

The south country’s rn: hold my beer🗿🍾

[@KAPUTSTON]

*the Southern states* “did you forget about us?”

[@zach2382]

That’s not even close to how this works at all

[@amusingintonations]

No Conch Republic?

[@laurajadams4062]

at the start with texas and the gun shot with the prisoners my lights went out at the same time

[@Wideloafer_shorts]

as A Californian I wish California to be its own country

[@stischer47]

As a Texan (and probably most Americans), I wish California was it's own country.

[@FordBaconYT]

I Love Texas because I live in Texas

[@RGMRLRLRL]

That's like saying "I love nazi germay because I live in nazi Germany"

[@LoveThe2ndAmendment]

I live in Houston 😃 I Live In Sam Houston 💀

[@USStateOfSiberiaGHWBush1992]

If Texas wanted help and couldn't get it from the U.S. at first because of antislavery, and thus turned to Great Britain for help, I'm surprised that that didn't result in Great Britain gaining Texas instead of America. Great Britain could have reestablished its own Territory in the west. Aside from the Columbia Territory.

[@stischer47]

Because after the Oregon Compromise, the British didn't want to cause any more problems with the US. In fact, Mexico tried to get them to take over California before 1845 to keep it from the Americans, but, once again, Oregon Compromise.

[@YV-ER]

Weegeeslayer is right

[@Shanefraim1]

You forgot Indiana was a territory but also was a country after it was a territory it included Ohio Indiana IL and ever state in the Midwest and all Florida all The way over to the Louisiana purchase at one time and believe it or not Indiana still has Islands lol

[@stevenpagnani7005]

Any state that is west of the Mississippi River was either western territory or native American territory.

[@Zyummysammy]

It went from American immigrants into Mexico to Mexican immigrants into America

[@PatrickConner-zr6jq]

Florida: 😢

[@joeb5080]

used to be a *sovereign state. "Country" is a subjective term.

[@thecapitalg]

The Texas Revolution was super unfair

[@TrustyStick]

Huh wydm

[@ExpirisYT]

CSA

[@samanthachott8589]

Bros stalking me (I live in California)