Langley-Adams Library (Groveland)

Connecticut, Craig A. Doherty and Katherine M. Doherty

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 115) and index

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Connecticut

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Craig A. Doherty and Katherine M. Doherty

The Thirteen Colonies

Covers the history of the colony's growth from the time early European explorers visited the new world until the colony's ratification of the U.S. constitution. Include black-and-white photographs, maps, and a graph within chapters, a time line, a list of historical sites in the state, further reading list, and an index. Connecticut traces the history of life in the early colony. It covers early exploration and the establishment of a Dutch trading post along the Connecticut River, the success of Connecticut merchants at trading goods, and the colony's 1650 law requiring that every town with more than 50 people have a school. Later chapters discuss the battles and events of the Revolutionary War, such as a failed British raid on Greenwich in 1779, and they also discuss Connecticut's important role in forming and ratifying the Constitution. Sidebars include: Life on the frontier Pilgrims and Puritans The charter oak The New England Primer, 1690 Israel Putnam Nathan Hale Jonathan Trumbull

European claims -- The first people of Connecticut -- Corn -- Wampum -- Pilgrims and Puritans -- Life on the frontier -- Creating the Colony of Connecticut -- The Pequot War -- Native Americans and disease -- New England Confederation -- King Phillip's war -- Excerpt from the Navigation acts of 1651 -- Charles II (1630-1685) -- Dominion of New England -- James, Duke of York, later King James II (1633-1701) -- The Charter Oak -- Education in Connecticut -- The New England primer, 1690 -- Life on the farms of Connecticut -- Tobacco in Connecticut -- Saybrook platform, 1708 -- Commerce in Connecticut -- Slavery in Connecticut -- The French and Indian War -- Roger's Rangers -- Albany Plan, 1754 -- The Sugar Act, April 5, 1764 -- The Stamp Act, March 22, 1765 -- Sons of Liberty -- The Townshend Duties, June 29, 1767 -- The Tea Act, May 10, 1773 -- The Intolerable Acts, 1774 -- The First Continental Congress, September 5 to October 26, 1774 -- Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, 1775 -- Israel Putnam (1718-1790) -- Whites of their eyes -- Declaring independence -- The first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence -- Connecticut in the Revolution -- Nathan Hale (1755-1776) -- Loyalist and patriots -- Jonathan Trumbull (1710- 1785) -- The Articles of Confederation -- The Constitutional Convention, 1787 -- Roger Sherman (1721-1793) -- Preamble to the U.S. Constitution -- Connecticut timeline -- Connecticut historic sites

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