Hartford, the second largest city in Connecticut, located on the west bank of the Connecticut River, is a major manufacturing city in Connecticut
What is the capital of Connecticut?
100
Native American tribes including Pequot, Mohegan, Niantic, and Siwanog spoke this language
What is Algonquian?
100
This document was created in 1639 and was the first written constitution in the New World. It is the reason Connecticut is called the Constitution state.
What is The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
100
The name of the American troops, led by General George Washington during the American Revolution.
What is the Continental Army?
100
The Southern states planned to separate or secede from the Union if this happened.
What is abolish slavery?
200
The American Robin
What is the state bird of Connecticut?
200
The Dutch traded European tools and metal weapons for these Native American goods which they would bring back to Europe and sell at high prices.
What are beaver furs?
200
This document was given to Connecticut by King Charles II and allowed Connecticut colonists more control over their government.
What is a charter?
200
He dressed as a Dutch school teacher and crossed British Lines as a spy for the Rangers. He is famous for saying, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Who is Nathan Hale?
200
This Connecticut author was the daughter of preacher who was a leader in the antislavery movement and married a professor who also opposed slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
Mountain Laurel
What is the state flower of Connecticut?
300
This Puritan preacher Moved to Connecticut, purchased land from the Native Americans, started a new colony, and allowed all church members to choose colony leaders.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
300
Connecticut's charter was hidden in this place when Connecticut's leaders refused to give it to Sir Edmund Andros.
What is the Charter Oak?
300
Connecticut's economy was based on this during the colonial period.
What is agriculture?
300
This book followed the lives of black slaves and caused people to feel sorry for the slaves and help them run away from their owners.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
400
White Oak
What is the state tree of Connecticut?
400
This first major conflict between Native Americans and the colonists occurred when colonists wanted to gain control of the fur trade in New England but the Native Americans did not want to give up control.
What is the Pequot War?
400
This is the name of the new colony created when King James II united Connecticut with other nearby colonies.
What is the Dominion of New England?
400
Huge southern farms that often grew cotton or tobacco and were supported by the work of black slaves from Africa.
What is a plantation?
400
In 1861, eleven Southern states left the Union and formed this new nation.
What is the Confederate States of America?
500
"He Who Transplanted Still Sustains"
What is Connecticut's state motto?
500
These two tribes helped the colonists attack the Pequot village during the Pequot war.
Who are the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes?
500
Because of this costly War, Great Britain enacted a number of taxes on the colonists. When the colonists refused to pay the taxes, Great Britain punished colonists by taking away the freedom to make their own laws.
What is the French and Indian War?
500
These five products or industries were important to Connecticut after it became a state.
What are: brass products, clocks, rubber products, textile mills, and shipbuilding.
500
These are four examples of supplies that Connecticut's industries provided for the Union during the Civil War.
What are blankets, firearms, ammunition, and ships?