Connecticut

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=**CONNECTICUT**= =**GEOGRAPHY:**= Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and New York to the west and south (because various islands of New York span Connecticut's entire coast)

Geographic Features are that it was a very long coastline. Connecticut River cuts through the center of the state. Bear Mountain is in Salisbury, CT, and Case Mountain is in Manchester, Ct east of Hartford. Connecticut four major harbors are Black Rock harbors, Bridgeport Harbor, Cedar Creek Harbor. All three are in FairField but Venentian Harbor is in New London. Geography affect Connecticut because of the long coastline. So now connecticut is able to trade and build ships =HISTORY-=

Connecticut was colonized in. The Purtians came and the Fur traders came from England. The Purtian came from 1636 - 1662, and the Fur Traders came from 1662 - 1776. Purtians came for Religious Freedoms and the Fur traders came for trade

Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutch and established a small, short-lived settlement in present-day Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut rivers, called Huys de Goede Hoop. Initially, half of Connecticut was a part of the Dutch colony, New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers.

The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by the English. Thomas Hooker led a band of followers overland from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded what would become the Connecticut Colony; other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony. Both the Connecticut and New Haven Colonies established documents of Fundamental Orders, considered the first constitutions in North America. In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a royal charter, making Connecticut a crown colony. This colony was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution.

=**ECONOMIC**=

In the 1750s, farming was the main source of connecticuts economy. Connecticuts' main crops that were grown were wheat and corn. The waterways helped with the agriculture because the settlers were able to fish. Soil and land wasnt the best thing. Both were worn out and the farming decreased. So they decided to build factories/industries. In those buissnesses they would build clocks, ships, and do iron forging. In Middletown, Connecticut, was a seaport and shipbuilding centre in the 18th and 19th centuries—a base of the triangular trade in rum, slaves, and molasses with Africa and the West Indies and later of the China clipper trade.They also established a fur trade route and gained profit from it.

=Social=

Connecticut had one main language which was English. There also wasnt one main ethnicity in Connecticut. A variety of people lived in this region. There were a variety of religions taking place because the people of Rhode Island leaving and coming to this region. The dominant religion was Puritanism. The Puritans were a significant grouping of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. Puritanism in this sense was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1559, as an activist movement within the Church of England. In Connecticut the role of the women was usually to be a house wife. Making clothes, cooking, care taker of the house and the kids. Single women had propert rights and also some property rights. Married on the other hand has very limited freedom.
 * Political**

From 1663 to 1662 Connecticut was a selfgoverning colony. In 1662 they then became a Royal colony. Connecitcut didnt want to be ruled by England anymore. They want to have no taxes, no rules, they wanted to trade with whoever they want.