The Constitution State. Land of Steady Habits. The Provision State. Connecticut has many names, each a colorful insight into the history of this stubborn, gutsy New England state. Eyewitness accounts, lively narrative, and archival images take readers back to Connecticut's formative years. Learn how the thrst witchcraft trial and execution in North America took place there in 1647; how a quest for new opportunities and more religious freedom lead Massachusetts settlers to found Connecticut Colony in the fertile valley along the Quinnehtukqut River; why Thomas Hooker's Fundamental Orders, America's first written constitution, was adapted; and how hard work and "Yankee ingenuity" produced the bountiful harvests and the growth of manufacturing that helped win the Revolutionary War.National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources.
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- ISBN10 1426300689
- ISBN13 9781426300684
- Publish Date 14 August 2007
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 28 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint National Geographic Society
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 112
- Language English