why did the connecticut colony start?!?!?
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Colonial Connecticut\n\nhttp://colonialancestors.com/ct/connecticut.htm\n\nEarly Connecticut History\n\nhttp://www.kids.state.ct.us/history.htm#Early\n\nIn recognizing the importance to Connecticut of numerous sites in the state that are associated with the heritage and movement towards freedom of its African American citizens, the Connecticut General Assembly in 1995 authorized that these locations be developed into a Freedom Trail.\n\nhttp://www.ctfreedomtrail.com/site/tour_index.html\n\nPublic Records.\n\nhttp://www.colonialct.uconn.edu/\n\nGood luck\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Hi Lana, there should be something on the subject within these links.\n\nSocial Studies\n\nAmerica began as colonies of England, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. The story of America as a nation must begin with the colonization of the East Coast.\n\nhttp://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/colonialtimes.htm\n\nJamestown and how America started.\n\nhttp://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/01_02/AH/jt/jt.htm\n\nhttp://cvesd.k12.ca.us/finney/journey/___thebeginning.html\n\nhttp://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/01_02/AH/ca_intro.htm\n\nhttp://www.apva.org/history/\n\nhttp://www.academicinfo.net/usearlycolonial.html\n\n Although there were other Europeans who had visited and even tried to establish colonies on the eastern coast of the New World, the British were the first to establish a permanent colony. They named their fort Jamestown.\n\nhttp://www.dasd-ew.org/kirk/jamestown.htm\n\nThe American Colonies\n\nThe history of the original 13 colonies is a tangled tale indeed. There are many ways to view the events and, in hind sight, it is easy to think you understand. But no one knew where they were headed at the time and it could have ended up very different.\n\nhttp://www.dasd-ew.org/history.htm#colonial\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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I traced the early history of GA to here: \n\nCherokee and Creek Indians lived in Georgia when Hernando de Soto, the Spanish explorer, first traveled parts of Georgia in 1540. By 1566, forts were built along the Atlantic coast, including the first in Georgia on St. Catherine's Island. However, no permanent settlements were established.  \n\nIn 1732, English King George II granted a charter for the last of the 13th colony in America. There were originally twenty one trustees named in the 1732 charter "The Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia". Over the period of the trusteeship (1732-1755), fifty more were added. For an alphabetical listing of all the trustees, click here. For more detailed information on the institutional organization and development of the province, please see Georgia as a Proprietary Province: The Execution of a Trust by James Ross McCain (Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1917).
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Social Studies\n\nAmerica began as colonies of England, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. The story of America as a nation must begin with the colonization of the East Coast.\n\nhttp://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/colonialtimes.htm\n\nJamestown and how America started.\n\nhttp://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/01_02/AH/jt/jt.htm\n\nhttp://cvesd.k12.ca.us/finney/journey/___thebeginning.html\n\nhttp://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/01_02/AH/ca_intro.htm\n\nhttp://www.apva.org/history/\n\nhttp://www.academicinfo.net/usearlycolonial.html\n\n Although there were other Europeans who had visited and even tried to establish colonies on the eastern coast of the New World, the British were the first to establish a permanent colony. They named their fort Jamestown.\n\nhttp://www.dasd-ew.org/kirk/jamestown.htm\n\nThe American Colonies\n\nThe history of the original 13 colonies is a tangled tale indeed. There are many ways to view the events and, in hind sight, it is easy to think you understand. But no one knew where they were headed at the time and it could have ended up very different.\n\nhttp://www.dasd-ew.org/history.htm#colonial\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html\n\nhttp://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/index.html\n\nhttp://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Connecticut is reputedly called the nutmeg state because it used to be full of peddlers selling nutmegs.\n\nNot quite as interesting as you had hoped, I'd wager.
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Date Founded: April 26, 1607 at 4:00 am \nWho founded the colony and why? The Virginia Company  of London founded the colony to get gold and silver, to trade, to claim land and to christianize. \nWho came to the colony and why?  One hundred English men came to America to look for gold. \nWhich tribes of Native Americans lived there? The Powhatan, the Susquehannah, the Momacan, the Manahoac, the Cherokee and the Bowhatan tribes. \nHow were the people governed? The colonists were a big part of the government. They almost governed themselves. For a long time, the colony was strictly christian.  Then, when more people came to the colony, different cultures and religions came with them. \nWhen was it established as a state? June 25, 1788 as the10th state.
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European nations began that long before the U.S. was even created. The U.S. did so because they ran out of frontier and wanted to expand outward, both in the Pacific and the Caribbean. It may have also been due to international competition, or at least that's my opinion.
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Have you ever heard about Roanoke? It was one of the very first european colonies in America. People were dropped off on an island to start a settlement, and then they had completely disappeared when another group arrived 3 years later. It's one of the USA's biggest mysteries!
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To answer your question... yes... Delaware was a slave colony... it had been since it's earlier roots as a Dutch Colony... \nThe Dutch were the first to colonize Delaware by establishing a trading post in 1631.  Though the first settlement was destroyed during a clash with local Native Americans the Dutch continued to hold Delaware by deriving new forts in 1638 (Fort Christina) and 1651 (new castle) and then in 1655 the Dutch took over the entire trading colony under the leadership of Peter Stuyvasant incorperating it into the Dutch "New Netherlands"...\n\nSlavery in Delaware?\nMany of the people in Delaware came from Maryland and Virginia which were experiencing a Population boom. The Cash Crop of the region was Tobacco (which was entirely dependant on Slave Labor).  At the end of the colonial period Slavery in Delaware started to decline due to Agricultural Changes, Religious beliefs (quakers and Methodists) and Governmental Restrictions.  In fact by 1860 there were only about 1,800 Slaves in the State of Delaware (with a population of approx. 90,000 people and 20,000 of them were freed slaves). John Dickensen (the largest slave owner with 37 slaves) freed his slaves in 1777. \nDelaware did not suceed during the civil war.  Voting to stay a part of the Union on January 3rd, 1861.  Though the state remained part of the Union many of the citizen left the state to go fight in the Confederacy in states such as Virginia. \nTwo months before the Civil War ended. (February 18, 1865) Delaware voted against the 13th Amendment  and thus unsuccessfully tried to continue slavery past the civil war... \nIt wasn't until 1901 that Delaware ratified the 13th Amendment (a full 40 Years after Lincoln's Emancipation Aproclomation).
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You have got to be kidding me...\n\nThe Stamp Act was an attempt by England to tax the American colonies and began the movement to break America from English rule.  The Boston Tea Party was a direct result of the Stamp Act, where American colonists through taxed cargo into the Boston Harbor before it could be unloaded from the ships.  The Stamp Act also resulted in the American motto of 'No taxation without representation', meaning that the Colonis felt they should have a voice in how they were being governed.
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It began after the First Continental Congress?  LMAO..  Research it, using wikipedia, the encyclopedia and other sources.  Then report as if you are a star chasing paparazzi, clamoring to view Washington's newest girl, Franklin's bling bling and Jefferson's mixed kids....have fun with it.
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Because we are not communists.  We enjoy being able to work hard for our earnings, and use them as we please.\n\nPaul reminded me.\n\nwhen the pilgrims first came to this land, they tried out a mini-socialist colony: everyone worked for the common good, everything was shared, everyone go equal portions.  Do you know what happened? Nothing got done.  A few lazy folks didn't pull their share, and the entire colony suffered because of it.  It wasn't until the started making small businesses to provide goods and services for a cost, that the colony took off.  the moral of the story?  If you don't give someone a reason to work, they won't work.
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The Middle Colonies were a part of the original Thirteen Colonies that would later become The United States of America. The region was originally New Netherland, which was later divided into the western half of Connecticut (which today is part of New England), New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware. Today, these areas are described as the Mid-Atlantic States.\nThe Middle Colonies were the most ethnically and religiously diverse of the thirteen original colonies because of the influence of their English, Dutch, French and German origins. This influence included tolerance and cosmopolitanism, and resulted in New Netherland's success as the commercial center of the eastern North American colonies. This was evidenced by the fact that they had more agriculture than the New England colonies. The Middle Colonies were also known as the "bread basket" colonies because of their large grain export. It was also the mid-Atlantic colonies that expanded into other areas of commerce before the others.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Colonies\n\nThe Southern Colonies were the Province of North Carolina, Province of South Carolina, and Province of Georgia, Province of Maryland, and Province of Virginia.\n\nSome reasons for colonists to move to the Southern Colonies were gold, resources, and land. But most of all, colonists who wanted to reap huge profits started plantations. Their economy was supported by plantations, mostly run by Slavery in the United States, except for Georgia, where most plantations were run by debtors. Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, also traded with Great Britain, slave ships from Africa, and the Caribbean. Their cash crops were tobacco, cotton, indigo, rice, and sugar cane. Colony and Dominion of Virginia and Province of Maryland are sometimes considered part of the Southern Colonies. The government was dominated mainly by planters and farmers.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_colonies
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It was an act of treason.  Had the colonist lost the Revolutionary War those men certainly would have been rounded up and hanged.  We called these men Patriots.  In England, they were considered traitors.
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Because of all the rich people that live there.\n\nA lot of people that make it in New York or Boston move or get country homes in Connecticut.
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In 1763 the Patriots/colonists here in America were taxed by England for things such as newspapers, tea, marriage certificates.  This was known as the Stamp Act.  They had a promise from King George III that they were to have the same rights they enjoyed in England yet the had no representatives in England speaking for them.  They were promised say so in making laws yet laws were passed with out their consent.  The king decided that the colonists should help pay for  the protection the English army gave them during the French and Indian War even though the colonists did most of the fighting.  Hope that answers it.
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The four *original* New England Colonies were :\nNew Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.