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America or the United States a country in North America that has 50 states although maybe that number will grow to 51 soon nobody knows all 50 states unless you're Ross from friends and not even him because he cheats and puts one of them twice but even if it's hard to know all of them by memory there are 50 states however this number could be different and the way that the u.s. state map looks could also have been significantly different than it is now this is because throughout history many other states were proposed but a lot were never created so in this video we're taking a look at the proposed States of America which never existed before we start a quick mention that this video is sponsored by a North Vee pn i'll talk about them later on in the video but now let's get started first the state of franklin proposed in 1784 this one actually existed from 1784 to 1788 but it was always unrecognized so its existence as a state wasn't official it was also known as the Free Republic of Franklin and it was located in what is now eastern Tennessee Franklin was created from part of the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains that had been offered by North Carolina as a session to Congress to help pay off debts it was founded with the intent of becoming the 14th state of the new United States apparently the name was chosen after a Benjamin Franklin whom the frontiersman sought the support of to legitimize their own state but Franklin declined stating in a letter I am sensible of the honour which your excellency and your counsel thereby do me but being in Europe when your state was formed I am too little acquainted with these circumstances to be able to offer you any by 1789 the territory was back under the control of North Carolina and soon after it became the Southwest territory the precursor to the state of 10 see then we have the state of Delmarva in 1833 Delmarva is a peninsula on the east coast of the United States occupied by Delaware and in part by Maryland and Virginia at various times in history residents of the Delmarva Peninsula have proposed that it's Maryland and Virginia portions secede from their respective states and they've actually gotten close with Maryland's House of Representatives allowing them to secede in 1834 but then the state Senate didn't allow it they've tried full-on independence then they just wanted to be fully part of Delaware in the entirety of its territory but that hasn't happened at least until now although more recently in 1992 a Delmarva State party was created with the aim of creating a new state's next some people didn't want Washington to be the only president with a state named after him so they proposed the state of Lincoln this is the one on the thumbnail and what's weird is that this state would take over a big part of the state of Washington except the shore replacing the president the flag would consist of the state seal which is common in the US and it would be very similar to Washington state flag except the picking Lincoln and also with a big difference most state flags that depict the seal if not all of them have a blue background this one would break the trend entirely by feeling red at first the idea was that the panhandle of Idaho was to become its own state this was proposed and refused in 1865 and so to improve the proposal I guess they added East Washington to the proposed territory of this new state and this was in 1901 a third proposal was made in the late 1920s consisting of Eastern Washington northern Idaho and western Montana failing once again but more recently new proposals have been made in 1996 1999 and even in 2005 a fun fact is that Lincoln's name was also proposed for the states that were eventually named North Dakota and Wyoming these past three began in the 19th century but there are also examples of the 20th century and some not that long ago like the estate of Sequoia the state of Sequoia was a proposed state to be established from the Indian territory in the eastern part of present-day Oklahoma in 1905 Native Americans of the Five Civilized tribes the Cherokee Choctaw Chickasaw Creek and Seminole in Indian Territory proposed to create a state as a mean to retain control of their lands their intention was to have a state under Native American Constitution and governance they didn't have a flag but they did have a seal which I guess would later have been stamped on a flag like other states it's somewhat strange and I guess the five sections represent these five native tribes the proposed state was to be named in honor of Sequoia the Cherokee who created a writing system in 1825 for the Cherokee language and there was some historical reasoning to their idea starting in 1890 when Congress passed the Oklahoma Organic Act the land that now forms the state of Oklahoma was made up of two separate territories Oklahoma Territory to the west and the Indian Territory to the east and this Indian Territory had a large Native American population the proposal was presented to Congress by a North Dakota senator and a Missouri congressman but they were refused however although the state of Sequoia never came to be its proposed Constitution made an important contribution to Oklahoma history by its many similarities to the later Oklahoma Constitution then we have the state of Absaroka in 1939 Absaroka was an area in the u.s. comprising parts of the states of Montana South Dakota and Wyoming and it contemplated secession and statehood in 1939 the region's complaints came from mostly ranchers and independent farmers in remote parts of the three who didn't like government-controlled they wanted to also increase tourism to the region and they used that as a motivation for the proposed state has Mount Rushmore which was constructed in 1927 1941 would be within Absaroka according to some of the plans they're proposed flag if it was really this one was just absolutely awful a white field with a red triangle on the right and the number 49 on it since they wanted to be the 49th state there's not much information about this one I guess it failed out of little local support and non acceptance by the existing states like the others but at one point state license plates bearing the new name were distributed but I guess that's how far they were able to get it seems like the route of many of these proposed states is the idea of having their own rules their own way of organizing local society local laws and defining the best way to make their territory prosper and keep their people safe speaking of keeping people safe did you know that a lot of websites collect and sell your personal data well they shouldn't be able to your data is yours alone and unless you're willing to share it random brands should not get access to it fortunately there's ways you can stop that from happening now like I mentioned this video is sponsored by north VPN so what is nor the DPN if you are a longtime subscriber you've already seen 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these central state governments in both Southern Oregon and Northern California the name choice is because of Thomas Jefferson the 3rd US president who sent the Lewis and Clark expedition into the Pacific Northwest in 1803 envisioning the establishment of an independent nation in the western portion of North America that he dubbed the Republic of the Pacific hence the association of his name with regional autonomy however the generalized independence movement for the entire area rather than this statehood movement is known as Cascadia just like Lincoln the name Jefferson has also been used for other proposed States in the 19th century for the Jefferson Territory roughly modern Colorado today as well as in 1915 in a bill in the Texas Legislature for a proposed state that would be created from the Texas Panhandle region another one was Deseret although it looks like deserts and the Territory in which it exists is partially desert Deseret is actually named after a word from the Book of Mormon that means honeybee which is why a beehive symbol is often associated with the proposed state it's a region that the Mormons claimed in what is now Utah plus several parts of other states all of present-day Utah and Nevada large portions of California Arizona Colorado New Mexico Wyoming Idaho and Oregon encompassing most of the territory that had been acquired from Mexico the previous year as the Mexican Cession when Mormon pioneers settled in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 then part of Mexico they wished to set up a government that would be recognized by the United States their first idea was just to be a territory but since they noticed that California and New Mexico apply for statehood they did the same instead Congress denied the request in 18-49 but instead gave the Mormons the Utah Territory in 1850 but they didn't give up and from 1862 to 1870 they still try to pursue the idea of Deseret state however the efforts began to fade away after the coming of the railroad which opened the territory to many non Mormon settlers their proposed flags vary and a few recreations exist like this all blue in the style of the US with a circle of stars and one in the center to represent this new state or this one just like the u.s. one but with a different number of stars one being bigger than the others and two additional symbols a Canon and the Beehive next is like a jack the state of Micah Jack would have consisted of portions of eastern Tennessee and northern Alabama the name comes from Cherokee language since the area was originally home to several Cherokee tribes during the us's internal conflict the people living in the region that would have occupied Nike Jack wanted to secede because they wanted nothing to do with the war they were for the most part for farmers who didn't want to join the southern army and they attempted to secede legally instead of just declaring themselves as a new state but the war became too much and it wasn't possible for them to ignore several of the citizens in the region ended up joining the northern army and the new state never materialized and finally Tex Lahoma the name makes sense since this state would have been made up of parts of Texas and Oklahoma in 1935 46 counties in northern Texas along with 23 counties in western Oklahoma attempted to secede and form a new state their reasoning was partly the lack of road infrastructure in their states I couldn't really find what happened but I guess since it doesn't exists it failed although I'm not sure why other parts of Texas attempted to secede at some points as well like I mentioned the Panhandle region try to become its own state also as a state of Jefferson in 1915 through a state bill that ended up failing and those are a few of the proposed states that never got to exist in the United States of America if you have any other information about other regions or territories that at some point try to become their own state let me know in the comments below and I could make a part 2 of this I also want to make a video on what the 51st US state might be if it ever comes to exist so leave any suggestions for that in the comments as well thanks so much for watching this video I hope you enjoyed it if you want to catch future videos as soon as they come up remember to subscribe either way thanks for watching and I will see you next time for more general knowledge