Connecticut

= = Connecticut By: Rosa Park #21 and Alex Evans #04

I. Leaders: -Tomas Hooker was the person who founded Connecticut.  -Adriaen Block built the first Dutch fort in 1633 in Connecticut also discovered first Connecticut River.

=II. Religion=

** Many people of Connecticut believed in witchcraft so if someone was suspicious of someone that someone would be prosicuted or if someone was oddly strange or much different then others. **

III. What was grown/Occupations: -Tobacco -Farming -Trading

IV. What was made/Occupations: -America’s first cigars -Man-made combs -Factory made hats -Plows -Friction matches

VI. Problems and Difficulties: When people in England first moved to Connecticut, they had many problems because they had a hard time living.

VII. Life in the colonies: A. Clothing: Hats, puffy clothing, formal silk pants, gaudy shirts and dresses, Long Dresses, mostly an old style. B. Education: New Haven University wasn't very popular, but it now is called Yale University.  From 1640 to 1848 there were different schools for colo r because of the act of racism. By law it was expected that the parents of connecticut were to teach their children the Christian faith. Large towns (more than 100 families) had to have built a grammar school. But in the 17th century many connecticut towns had the money to afford teachers so parents taught their children how to read. Parents were required to teach their children skills and if they didnt the government would take the children away and make them apprentices. They lived with a skilled person such as blacksmith or silversmith and would learn reading from their master and their master would also teach them the skills of their trade.

C. Government: Puritans, hated the idea of Democracy, and cared about themselves practicing praying to god, but some still practiced there own kind of government, and created their own laws.

VII.I Relationships with Natives: There was black slavery in between 1640-1848, and no one knows how blacks came to Connecticut, but all they know is that they came because they were jobless; also black history is // __very__ // important to Connecticut. 1637 the Connecticut settlers defeat Pequot Indians in the Pequot War. The natives first settled in Connecticut over 10,000 years ago. the tribes along the Connecticut river (Podunk, Wongunk, Sukiaug, Hamonaset) spoke different versions of the Algonquin language. Further east were the Pequot and the Mohegan tribes that moved from New York to Connecticut. The two tribes were once one tribe they split up in the early 17th century because they became bitter enemies when they started desiring for land and the trade with the Europeans. At the end of the 18th century almost all of the members of both tribes either left Connecticut or they died from the diseases that the Europeans brought and carried. But starting in 1980 both of the tribes started to revive. Most of the Connecticut tribes share the same lifestyle. The women would grow corn, beans, and squash. The men would hunt favorite was the white deer, and fish. The children would gather nuts and berries. In the hills of west Connecticut were the Mohawk tribes they used to be in New York and drove out the Pequot and the Mohegan Indians. Like many other tribes near there area they spoke Iroquois which means "people of the longhouses" longhouses were houses made of bark and had curved roofs. They could be up to 150 ft long and up to 12 families could live in one longhouse. For more information about Connecticut, click [|here].