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Bicentennial Boot Camp!
Liam Riordan
Department of History, University of Maine
MAM Annual Meeting
November 10, 2017
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Maine became the 23rd
U.S. state
March 15, 1820
Moses Greenleaf, map (1820)
Online exhibit,
“Maine’s Greatest Mapmaker,”
Osher Map Library, USM
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1) Were there “two Maines” even
before statehood?
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1792 1797 1807 1816
May
1816
Sept.
1819
Six Maine Separation Elections, 1792-1819County-Level Voting Data
Massachusetts Archives
Massachusetts Legislative Documents
Portland Gazette
Bangor Register
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May 1816 VoteLincoln and
Kennebec Counties
Historical Atlas of Maine, plate 20 (detail)
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1792 1797 1807 1816
May
1816
Sept.
1819
Six Maine Separation Elections, 1792-1819County-Level Voting Data
Massachusetts Archives
Massachusetts Legislative Documents
Portland Gazette
Bangor Register
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Maine State Constitution, 1819-20
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2) Slavery and Maine?
National Crisis, 1819-1821
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Thomas Jefferson to
US Congressman
John Holmes of
Alfred, Maine,
April 22, 1820
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Comparing Maine & Missouri:
State Populations in 1830
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Mitchell Map
(4th ed, 1775)
Treaty of Paris
1783
3) Where to Draw the Border?
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Historical Atlas of Maine, plate 21 (detail)
International Uncertainty & Local Turmoil
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4) What did
statehood mean
for Wabanaki
sovereignty?
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Historical Atlas of Maine, plate 23 (detail)
Tribal Diplomacy and Politics
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Wabanaki Political Rights
•Tribal representatives, 1820-2015
•federal voting rights, 1924
•Maine implementation, 1953-1967
Lucy Nicolar: first Penobscot to vote in a federal election (1954)
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How should we commemorate the state bicentennial in 2019-20?
Download bicentennial resources at the UMaine Humanities Center website:
umaine.edu/mhc/me-bicentennial
email Liam