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{{US state
| Name = Connecticut
| Fullname = State of Connecticut
| Flag = Flag of Connecticut.svg
| Seal = Seal of Connecticut.svg
| Flower = Mountain Laurel<ref name=SOTS>[http://www.sots.ct.gov/RegisterManual/SectionX/SITESEALSYMB.htm STATE OF CONNECTICUT, Sites º Seals º Symbols]; ''Connecticut State Register & Manual''; retrieved on [[December 15]], [[2006]]</ref>|
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== History ==
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{{main|History of Connecticut}}
Connecticut's name came from the [[Algonquian]] word "quinatucquet", meaning "upon the long river".<ref name="Project">{{cite book|author=Federal Writers' Project|title=Connecticut: A Guide to Its Roads, Lore and People|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=CPYfSsQ-WE4C&pg=PA3|accessdate=September 23, 2010|publisher=US History Publishers|isbn=978-1-60354-007-0|page=3}}</ref> Connecticut was [[wikt:inhabit|inhabited]] by the [[Mohegan]] [[tripe]] before the [[European colonization of the Americas|European colonization]]. The first [[Europe]]an [[explorer]] in Connecticut was the [[Dutch language|Dutch]] explorer [[Adriaen Block]]. He explored the state in 1614. Dutch [[fur]] [[trade]]rs [[sail]]ed up the Connecticut River (known to by the Dutch as Versche Rivier or "Fresh River") and built a [[fort]] at [[Dutch Point]] in present day Hartford. They called it "House of Hope" ({{lang-nl|Huis van Hoop}}). [[John Winthrop the Younger|John Winthrop]] of the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]], was given permission to create a new colony at [[Old Saybrook, Connecticut|Old Saybrook]] in 1635. This was the first three [[district]] [[colony|colonies]] that later combined to make up Connecticut. The [[Saybrook Colony]] did not become a larger colony and in 1644 became part of the [[Connecticut Colony]].

The first [[England|English]] [[settlement|settlers]] came in 1633. They settled in Windsor, and then at [[Wethersfield, Connecticut|Wethersfield]] in 1634.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cslib.org/earlysettlers.htm |title=Early Settlers of Connecticut – Connecticut State Library |publisher=Cslib.org |accessdate=July 25, 2010}}</ref> The rest of the group arrived in 1636. They were [[Puritans]] from Massachusetts, led by [[Thomas Hooker]]. He was a [[professor]] of [[theology]] in [[Cambridge]], [[London]]. He became an important [[politics|political]] writer and made a big contribution to the [[Constitutional theory]]. He then created the Connecticut Colony in Hartford in 1636, becoming the second of the three colonies.  

The third colony was founded in March 1638. [[John Davenport]] and [[Thephilus Eaton]], created the [[New Haven Colony]]. It was first called the Quinnipiack Colony. The New Haven Colony had its own constitution, "The Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony", which was signed on June 4, 1639. The Dutch settlers left their fort in 1654 because there were more English settlers. In 1662, Winthrop was given the [[royal charter]] and combined the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven. Its first constitution, the "[[Fundamental Orders of Connecticut|Fundamental Orders]]", was created on January 14, 1639. The Fundamental Orders helped [[wikt:influence|influence]] the [[US Constitution]].

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