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Continental Congress approves a lottery to help fund its revolutionary army.
1812Spain starts its national lottery, El Gordo. It's still running.
Early 1800sLotteries are shuts down the last one, the Louisiana Lottery.
1964The New Hampshire Sweepstakes is launched as the first state lottery of modern times.
1974Massachusetts offers the first scratch-off lottery ticket in the United States.
1988used to finance U.S. churches and colleges (including Harvard), along with other civic improvements across the nation.1826Thomas Jefferson writes his "Thoughts on Lotteries," arguing that "far from being immoral, games of chance are indispensable to the existence of man." He calls them a "tax on the willing." His personal motive: He thought he'd get more money by raffling a house than by selling it outright.Mid- to late-1800sStung by corruption scandals surrounding privately run lotteries, almost all states ban the games. In the 1890s, anti-lottery legislation
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