CONNECTICUT COLONY

FACTS

• One of the original 13 colonies
• On the Atlantic side of North America
• Existed between 1636 and 1776
• Connecticut means "river whose water is driven by tides or winds.”

THE MAP

FOUNDER

CONNECTICUT'S COLONY WAS

• Mild winter and summer
• Thuderstorms most often occur in summer
• Tornados almost every year
• Hurricanes occasionally effect the weather

GEOGRAPHY

• Lots of mountains with a thick growth of trees
• And rivers, and rocky soil that's not the best for farming.
• Narrow lowlands and hilly uplands to the east.

RELIGIONS

• There was no religious freedom in the Connecticut colony
• The Puritans didn't want anyone who was not of their faith
• Freedom of religion was not allowed

WHY WAS IT FOUNDED

• For political freedom and for religious freedom
• Because of an argument of Massachusetts Bay