Connecticut
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Connecticut
ONE OF THE 13 COLONIES
Connecticut was originally settled by Dutch fur traders in 1614. They sailed up the Connecticut River and built a fort near present-day Hartford.
Connecticut was originally settled by Dutch fur traders in 1614. They sailed up the Connecticut River and built a fort near present-day Hartford.
The first English settlers arrived in Connecticut in 1633 under the leadership of Reverend Thomas Hooker. They were Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Became an important center of government and trade.
After Hartford quickly arrived, several colonies were established including the Colony of Connecticut, Old Saybrooke, Windsor, Hartford, and New Haven.
Much of land settled by the colonists was purchased from the Mohegan Indians. The Pequot tribe, however, wanted the land. Soon, violence erupted between settlers and the Pequot Indians in 1637.m.
In what came to be known as the Pequot and Naragansett Indians that had previously warred against theWar, The Pequots were systematically massacred by not only the settlers, but by Mohegan
Pequot lands were subsequently divided among the settlers and other tribes. After the Pequot War, Thomas Hooker led in the drafting of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut in 1639. The document was a plan for government and is sometimes called America’s first.
John Haynes was then chosen as Connecticut’s first governor. Finally, in 1662, Connecticut was issued a royal charter, which gave the colony a legal basis and approval from the King.
FACTS AND HISTORY
1) Founded: 1636 by Thomas Hooker and others, at Hartford
2) Major Industry: Agriculture (wheat, corn, fishing)
3) Major Cities: Hartford, New Haven Colony
4) Colony Named for: from an Algonquin word, quinnehtukqut, "beside the long tidal river"
5) Became a State: February 6, 1788
SLAVERY
Even in the early 1700s, however, direct slave imports to Connecticut were considered too few to be worth the trouble of taxing. The governor reported only 110 white and black servants in Connecticut in 1709. In 1730, the colony had a black population of 700, out of a total enumeration of 38,000.
GOVERNMENT
Connecticut's state senate has 36 members and its house of representatives has 151; members of both houses are elected for two-year terms. The state executive branch is headed by a governor elected for a term of four years.
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