Failed U.S. States and Countries

The U.S. is over 2 centuries old in in those years they've had many failed U.S. states and even failed countries

## States

### Westsylvania

Westsylvania was proposed in 1776 it would have been where modern day West Virginia and Pennsylvania are today.

### Jefferson

Jefferson was a failed state proposed in the year 1941, the residents claimed it was there 14th amendment right but the U.S. Supreme Court said that it was not and Jefferson failed.

### Deseret

Deseret was a failed state which included the states of Utah, Nevada, California, and Arizona with parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon. the state was proposed in the year 1850 by pioneers who were members of the Church of Latter Day Saint better known as Mormons, the state failed in the year 1851.

### Scott

Scott was a county in Tennessee but when the U.S. Civil War Tennessee became Confederate but Scott wanted to be Union so they decided to become independent and join the Union but after they became a county once more.

### Lincoln (North East)

Abraham Lincoln had a failed state named after him which was placed right by Washington also named after a president.

### Townline

 Townline was a county in New York which during the Civil War unofficially spilt from the Union and joined the Confederacy, despite not being apart of the Confederacy they still celebrated in by putting the Confederate battle flag on their fire department badge, in 1946 Harry Truman requested they join the Union again which they agreed finally ending the Confederacy.

During the Civil War a small county in New York called Townline held a poll to decide if they should join the Confederacy, they decided to secede but the U.S. or the Confederates saw this as official, after the war Townline stated they were "The Last Rebels" and placed the Confederate flag on there fire department badge. In 1946 Harry Truman asked if they wanted to join the U.S. or not which they decided to do. which official ends the Confederacy.

## Countries

### Confederate Sates of America

The Confederate States of America or the Confederacy are the most famous failed country in the U.S., The Confederacy were formed in 1861 when South Carolina seceded from the United States following Abraham Lincoln's Election, following this Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and even formed a new temporary state called Tucson in what is now New Mexico. The first and only president Jefferson Davis with vice president Alexander H. Stephens, The Confederacies capital was Montgomery Alabama before being moved to Richmond Virginia when the state seceded. The country went to war with the U.S. when it bombed Fort Sumter and triggered the Civil War, the war looked good for the Confederacy before the battle of Gettysburg when they lost and resulted in their demise.

### Republic of Texas

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westsylvania
2. ↑ https://www.rd.com/list/states-almost-part-of-united-states/
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State\_of\_Deseret
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State\_of\_Scott
5. ↑ https://exploringupstate.com/the-last-of-the-confederate-rebels-town-line-ny/
6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jV4dvw7zFs
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate\_States\_of\_America#History