What is it’s history?
>>18069314Maine's origin story is basically angry French militants teaming up with militants to try and wipe out the Anglo colonies during King Philip's War in the 1670's. The raid on the settlement of Saco in 1675 killed 80 Anglo colonists and made England mad as fuck. I suspect it was part of the motivating force which eventually led the UK to go so hard against French control of Quebec in the Canadian dominion later on.
>>18069378Teaming up with Indians, I mean. Legit pipe-hitting warrior Indians who loved to slaughter Europeans.
The Indians lived there doing some shit, then English colonists came, killed the Indians, built the cities and started doing some shit
>>18069314The western half used to be part of New England (english colony) with Portland as the main settlement and the eastern part used to be part of Acadia,(french colony) with Castine as the main settlement and in 1710 Massachusetts militias invaded most of Acadia as part of the war of spanish succession and Louis XIV wanted peace asap following his defeats in Europe so he agreed to cede all of Acadia (+ Newfoundland) to Great Britain in the treaty of Utrecht and the territory became officially known as Maine
>>18069314Used to be part of Massachusetts Became its own state Its borders almost started another war between the U.S. and Canada but it was resolvedHuge source of lumber during the 19th century Interior areas basically ungoverned until the early 20th century. French and English spoken interchangeably. Seafaring and lobstermen are a part of the culture on the coasts One of 2 states that splits electoral college votes proportionally
The state went into a permanent economic decline after the whaling industry died off and never recovered.
>>18069314BORING
>>18069521>Interior areas basically ungoverned until the early 20th centuryStill is. The Maine-Canada border is a major center of cross-border drug and human trafficking because it's very rural and isolated.
>>18069314America doesn't have history yet. Give it another 2-300 hundred years and we'll be able to see the actual effects of US independence properly.
>>18069925>d-d-duh US don't got no history yet The most reddit-tier take possible. I bet you think US history only begins in '76 too, huh champ?
>>18069933That's the point when the 'USA' came into being, yes. The natives have their own (far less accurately recorded, and far more mythologized at the moment) history; but I assumed that you'd understand that I was talking about the United States of America when I said 'America'. You guys are usually very upset when you're reminded that your county isn't both American continents.
>>18069314There is one town there where people and especially children tend to disappear every 27 years. No one really knows why
>>18069975>everything pre-'76 doesn't count, even though it's literally the foundation of all subsequent US history, because... because it just doesn't, okay!?!?Like I said, reddit-tier take
