okay so i have to do a paper on the Connecticut Colony and i only have 2 more questions.
1. What kind of laws does the colony have?
2. Does the colony trade with the Native Americans? What do they trade?
2007-11-07 13:12:58 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
1. Connecticut was settled chiefly by emigrants from eastern Massachusetts and from England. It was the first colony in America to frame a written constitution of government -- one which gave the right to vote to every citizen. The King granted the colonists a charter confirming their power of governing themselves. Governor Andros, by the order of James II, tried to get possession of the charter, but failed. Except for a very short period, Connecticut practically continued to maintain her own laws.
2. The colonists traded such items as wool-trading cloth in blue, red and white, ready-made coats, knives, hatchets, tin looking glasses, tobacco boxes, scissors, brass kettles, mackerel hooks, needles, and pins in exchange for furs.
2007-11-07 13:28:21 · answer #1 · answered by claudiacake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is this based on a specific text book?
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut -word of God
shall be the only rule..." over English Common Law - the Bible
this varied from place to place depending on the time...
Intially the area was a place where Dutch traders from New Amsterdam established fur trading posts along the Connecticut River, most notably the
"House of Good Hope" (or
Huys de Hoop) located where the Park River flows into the Connecticut River on
the site of what is now Hartford.
But they likely traded wampum and other goods they had on them... for furs.. and anything else of worth... not sure 100% on that though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequot_War
2007-11-07 13:27:47 · answer #2 · answered by intracircumcordei 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋