Of the thirteen original colonies, New Hampshire was the first to declare its independence from Mother England -- a full six months before the Declaration of Independence was signed.
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On December 30, 1828, about 400 mill girls walked out of the Dover, New Hampshire Cotton Factory enacting the first women's strike in the United States. The Dover mill girls were forced to give in when the mill owners immediately began advertising for replacement workers.
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New Hampshire adopted the first legal lottery in the twentieth century United States in 1963.