Connecticut

Connecticut is bordered on the south by Long Island Sound, on the west by New York State, on the north by Massachusetts, and on the east by Rhode Island. The state capital is Hartford, and the other major cities include New Haven, New London, New Britain, Norwich, Milford, Norwalk, Stamford, Waterbury, Danbury and Bridgeport. There are 169 incorporated towns in Connecticut. The highest peak in Connecticut is Bear Mountain in Salisbury in the northwest corner of the state. The highest point is just east of where Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York meet (42° 3' N; 73° 29' W), on the southern slope of Mount Frissell, whose peak lies nearby in Massachusetts.[13] The Connecticut River cuts through the center of the state, flowing into Long Island Sound, Connecticut's outlet to the Atlantic Ocean. Despite its size, the state has regional variations in its landscape and culture from the wealthy estates of Fairfield County's "Gold Coast" to the rolling mountains and horse-farms of the Litchfield Hills of northwestern Connecticut. Connecticut's rural areas and small towns in the northeast and northwest corners of the state contrast sharply with its industrial cities, located along the coastal highways from the New York border to New Haven, then northward to Hartford, as well as further up the coast near New London. Many towns center around a "green," (such as the New Haven Green), Litchfield Green, Simsbury Green, Lebanon Green (the largest in the state), and Wethersfield Green (the oldest in the state). Near the green typically stand historical visual symbols of New England towns, such as a small white church, a colonial meeting house, a colonial tavern or "inne," several colonial houses, etc., establishing a scenic historicity maintained for both historic preservation and the tourism trade. Due to the climate, degree of urbanization, and economic status of the state, it offers easily accessed forests, rivers, lakes, waterfalls and a coastline, all developed for recreation. The northern boundary of the state with Massachusetts is marked by the distinctive Southwick Jog or Granby Notch, an approximately 2.5 mile (4.0 km) square detour into Connecticut slightly west of the center of the border. The actual origin of this anomaly is uncertain, with stories ranging from the original surveyors having been drunk, having attempted to avoid hostile Native Americans, or having taken a shortcut up the Connecticut River; Massachusetts residents having attempted to avoid Massachusetts' higher taxes for the lower taxes of Connecticut; Massachusetts' interest in the resources represented by the Congamond Lakes which lie on the border of the jog; and the need to compensate Massachusetts for an amount of land given to Connecticut due to inaccurate survey work. The southwestern border of Connecticut, where it abuts New York State, is marked by a panhandle in Fairfield County, containing the towns of Greenwich, Stamford, New Canaan, Darien and part of Norwalk. This irregularity in the boundary is the result of territorial disputes in the late 1600s, culminating with New York giving up its claim to the area, whose residents considered themselves part of Connecticut, in exchange for an equivalent area extending northwards from Ridgefield to the Massachusetts border as well as undisputed claim to Rye, New York.

what was the type of government in connecticut in 1635

Gender roles in the northern Colonies were extremely rigid. For instance, in colonial Connecticut, women did the cooking, sewing, cleaning, and child rearing. Men hunted, worked the land, and provided for the women.

Connecticut is the best colony because Collin L. said so!

• The first major war between the native peoples and Europeans, the Pequot War, took place in Connecticut from 1634-1638.
• The Connecticut Colony was actually three separate colonies (New Haven, the (Connecticut) River colony, and the Saybrook Colony) which later merged.
• King Phillip's War was fought from 1675-76, leaving devastating destruction of life and property in it's wake., serving to bond the colonials together as a unique American identity distinct from the English.
• For a while, Connecticut actually claimed an area all the way to the Mississippi River (skipping over lower New York), and even at one point in time all the way to the Pacific!
• Due to conflicting land grants from the crown, boundary disputes continued well into post-revolutionary times. Some minor sticking points continue to surface even today.

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The first school for the Deaf was founded by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet wanted to find a way to teach deaf children. His neighbor Mason Gogswell had a deaf daughter, Alice, and Gogswell did not want her locked away in a mental institution, as was common practice during those times. Thomas left the U.S. in search of a way to educate deaf people, in 1816, while in England seeking their method of educating the deaf he attended a deaf-mute show which featured it's star pupil: Laurent Clerc, a brilliant deaf student from France. Gallaudet convinced Clerc to come to the U.S. and help set up a school and hence in 1817 the first school for the Deaf opened in Hartford Connecticut. Source: "Learning to See: Teaching American Sign Language as a Second Language" by Sherman Wilcox and Phyllis Perrin Wilcox (Pp. 17-19)

Thomas Hooker- Founder Hartford in 1636


Adriaen Block- dutch explorer claimed the CT river in 1614

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the fundamental orders of Connecticut where important were because it let non- church people vote

Some are and idk if this is all of them but some are blacksmith, cobbler, farmer, lawyer, fisherman, tavern owner, and ship channdler.

Jobs in Colonial Connecticut included lumbering, fishing, shipbuilding, and trade. Because of its cold winters and rocky landscape, farming was sometimes difficult except when it took place near the banks of the Connecticut River. There, the soil was not fertile and not perfect for farming.

Although one of the original 13 states that declared Independence in 1766, it was on January 9th, 1788 that Conneticut ratified the present US Constitution and therefore this is the date that is considered the date of joining the Union. For more details See Related links below this box.

By 1639, a number of pilgrims were being persecuted for their religious beliefs (they were puritans who wanted to "purify" the Anglican religion). They left Massachusetts and colonized the area that is now Connecticut. There, they developed the first written constitution - the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. This document called for an assembly of elected representatives from each town to make laws. It also called for the popular election of a governor and judges.

It is considered the first written constitution (plan of government) in British North America.

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the dutch and the swedish tom hooker was the founder of the colony of connecticut

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crops included herbs, flax, Maize (corn), beans, squash, oats, barley, lettuce, cabbage, cucumbers, onions, potatoes, beets, carrots, radish, parsnip, pumpkin, tobacco, & small fruits & apples

Connecticut is known for New Haven style pizza and Hartford's Election Day Cake. (see Related link, below.) Another comestible (but not food) is Connecticut shade-grown tobacco, used as cigar wrappers.

Connecticut is home to several mountain ranges including the Berkshires, Metacomet, and Taconic. Some of the individual mountains in the state are Bear Mountain, Haystack Mountain, Rattlesnake Mountain, and Pinnacle Rock.

•If you weren't a farmer then you traded up and down the Connecticut river with the Native Americas they would give steel tools for furs from the animals.

•You can make a living of agriculture (farming wheat, barley, oats, corn, and fishing.

•You can practice your religious beliefs as you wish a Puritan nobleman's heaven.

•There is a temperate climate and right by a body of water

•It is a wealthy colony

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the population of new Hampshire was very little. But then it increased because of the time that England .

The Reverend Thomas Hooker is the founder ofConnecticut as well as the \Father of America Democracy.