CONNECTICUT COLONY

FACTS

• One of the original 13 colonies.
• On the Atlantic side of North America.
• Existed between 1636 to 1776
• It joined the other 12 colonies

FOUNDERS

• Thomas Hooker and (unknown others)

MAJOR PRODUCTS IN COLONIAL EXCHANGE

• Mostly fishing but some timber was traded.

THE MAP

CLIMATE

• Coldest of the three regions
• Mild winter and summers
• Thunderstorms most often occur in summer
• Tornados almost every year
• Hurricanes accasionally effect the weather

GEOGRAPHY

• Lots of mountains with a thick growth of trees
• And rivers, and poor rocky soil that is not the best for planting crops, and for farming.
• Narrow lowlands and hilly eastern upland.

WHY WAS IT FOUNDED

• For political freedom and for religious freedom
• And because of an argument at Massachusetts Bay.

TYPE OF PEOPLE