Freedonian Republics

The Freedonian Republics were independent, self-governing nations during the latter half of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These republics were created by republican minded people who left British North America to achieve their goals elsewhere in the North American continent. These people are sometimes known as Freedom Trekkers or Republican Riders. Three Freedonian republics achieved international recognition, the Republic of Texas, the California Republic, and the Republic of Sonora. The latter two continue to exist today, while the former was annexed to British North America.

History
Following the passage of the Galloway Plan by the Continental Congress and Parliament, radicals, who sought a republican form of government in North America began to leave over a fear of persecution. Much of these so-called "Freedom Trekkers" headed west through Virginia and Pennsylvania to establish homes in or west of the Appalachian Mountains. Not all settlers were radicals, as some were simply colonists who sought to establish a home west of the Appalachians, despite British policy. As settlers began to amass, conventions were called to create new nations, in-align with the ideals of the radical republicans.

The earliest of such republics began in 1778 with the foundation of the Republic of Cumberland, Republic of Appalachia, and United States of Westylvania. The Kentucky Free State was another early Freedonian republic. The governments were presidential in nature, and most were unitary states. The United States of Westylvania established five-states with limited success. None of the early Freedonian republics were recognized by Great Britain or any other foreign power. Their power was slowly eroded by various acts, establishing colonies, and moving the boundary of the United Provinces further west. The Republic of Cumberland and Kentucky Free State were the last two of the early free states to become subject to British colonial rule.

In most cases, the United Provinces sent militias, accompanies by British troops, to enforce the new British-based rule of the area. The Westylvanian Revolt was a small revolt of farmers, who attempted to push against the establishment of the British colony of Ohio. Therefore, they attacked and burned down a British camp near the town of Akron. The British responded with limited force but expelled all public-meetings in regards to the Westylvanian government, including the Westylvanian Congress in Cleveland. This led to some Westylvanians begin moving west, into modern-day South Charlotiana and Spanish Louisiana.

In 1797, Parliament passed the Cumberland-Kentucky Act which formed the colonies of Cumberland and Transylvania from the former-Freedonian republics. Kentucky aimed to stop the British from annexing the country, and subsequently begin a North American Revolution, by encouraging Freedonian republics to rebel against the British. When the British arrived in Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky, they were attacked by Kentucky militia and forced to withdraw. The resulting Kentucky-British War continued for seven months before Kentucky finally surrendered. A Cumberland government-in-exile attempted to regain control over its former territory during the war but failed to do so. The act led to Great Britain passing the Charlotiana Act of 1798, which formally extended the borders of the United Provinces to the Mississippi River.