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New Hampshire
The state of New Hampshire is in the New England region of the northeast part of the United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. When it separated from Great Britain in January 1776 it became the first post-colonial sovereign nation in the Americas, and was one of the first thirteen States that established the United States of America six months later. It was the ninth state to approve the United States Constitution, putting that document into effect. New Hampshire was the first U.S. state to obtain its own state constitution and neither a personal income tax nor a general sales tax at any the state or local level. Manchester is the largest city in the state, while Concord is the state capital.
The first primary in the quadrennial U.S. presidential election cycle, it is recognized internationally for the New Hampshire primary. the state motto: "Live Free or Die." is carried in every license plate. The state nickname is "The Granite State", mentioned to its its tradition of self-sufficiency and geology. Several other official nicknames exist but are not often used.
Various Algonquian tribes occupied the area prior to European settlement New Hampshire were visited in 1600–1605 by French and English explorers, and English fishermen settled at Odiorne's Point in 1623. The first permanent settlement was at Hilton's Point (currently Dover). By 1631, the Upper Plantation consist of modern-day Dover, Stratham and Durham.
It was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. New Hampshire was a divided province by the time of the American Revolution. The social life and economy of the Seacoast circulates around shipyards, sawmills, established village, town centers and merchant's warehouses. Wealthy merchants invested their capital in land speculation and trade, and built substantial homes, furnished them with the finest luxuries. At the other end of the social scale, there built-up a permanent class of day indentured servants, laborers, mariners, and even slaves.
It was the first state to proclaim its freedom, but the only battle fought there was the raid on Fort William and Mary in December 14, 1774 which netted the rebellion considerable number of gunpowder, cannon, and small arms (General Sullivan, leader of the raid, expressed it as, "remainder of the powder, the small arms, bayonets, and cartouche-boxes, together with the cannon and ordnance stores") over the time of two nights. This raid was lead by a warning to local patriots the day before, by Paul Revere on the date of December 13, 1774 that the fort was to be toughened by troops sailing from Boston. According to unconfirmed accounts, the gunpowder was soon after used at the Battle of Bunker Hill, delivered there by Major Demerit, who was one of a number of New Hampshire patriots who accumulates the powder in their homes until it was transferred elsewhere for use in revolutionary actions.
New Hampshire was a Jacksonian stronghold; the state delivered Franklin Pierce to the White House in the election of 1852. Industrialization has been given the form of various textile mills, which in turn lured large flows of immigrants from Quebec and Ireland.
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