Come to our Colony in Connecticut
By Jose Moreno and Sunhith Mundla
Welcome to the country of Connecticut
Come to Connecticut you will not want to leave. we can offer you 3 acres of land per family so you can have an small farm. You want to know how? We have 5,544 square miles of land and Connecticut lives close to the ocean. So we make a lot of money buy sell fish and get lot of ship in and out of Connecticut.
The reason people came to Connceticut
The reason people came to Connecticut was because lots of Indians attack the people that live in Massachusetts by the Pequot Indians.
The founder
The founder was a man that goes by the name of Thomas Hooker. He want to have reglions freedom and the attacks of the Pequot Indians. People say that Tomas Hooker was an good leader and a outstanding speaker. It was founding in 1637.
The type of people in Connceticut
There are mostly pilgrim form the Dutch that live there. But there are Christianity faith. There where very little Indians that live in Connecticut, because of how small Connecticut was. so it's a great place to live.
Geograhy
Connecticut has 5,544 square miles of land, and water only covers 698 square miles so there is a lot of land for every! there is barley mountain in Connecticut the highest point is only in 2,380 feet above sea level. There are about 15 rivers all over Connecticut, So there is lots of water in Connecticut.
The goverment
Connecticut had a self-government that means that the people where the government. That is so much better then have the state make the rules. There government had some rules such as being royalty, proprietary, charter colonies
The Economy
Agriculture was the main industry in Connecticut. We mostly had corn, wheat, iron, live stock, timber, and furs.
Trades
We traded mostly by the rivers because it easy transportation. Iron, wheat, corn, live stock, timber, and furs where the main thing that we traded.
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