The U.S. state of Connecticut began as three distinct settlements of Puritans from Massachusetts and England; they combined under a single royal charter in 1663. Known as the "land of steady habits" for its political, social and religious conservatism, the colony prospered from the trade and farming of its ethnic English Protestant population. The Congregational and Unitarian churches became prominent here. Connecticut played an active role in the American Revolution, and became a bastion of the conservative, business-oriented, Constitutionalism Federalist Party.
Pequot War of 1637
The Charter Oak in Hartford
Governor Jonathan Trumbull
Some bridges on the Merritt Parkway were constructed by workers paid by the US Works Progress Administration
John Davenport (minister)
John Davenport was an English Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the American colony of New Haven.
Portrait of John Davenport, 1670. Yale University Art Gallery
Cenotaph for Davenport and John Cotton.
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