Connecticut

1. Connecticut By: Nevada, Brooke, and Sydney

2. Nickname, Region in the U.S, Capital City and Population • Nickname: The Constitution State • Region in the U.S: New England • Capital City: Hartford • Major Cities: Bridgeport, New Haven, and Stamford • Current Population: 3,574,097 people

3. State Flag, State Bird, State Flower and State Tree • Connecticut's state bird is an American robin. • Connecticut’s state flower is a Mountain laurel. • Connecticut’s state tree is a white oak tree. • Connecticut's state flag.

4. Current Governor and State Senators • Dan Malloy is Connecticut's current governor. • Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy are Connecticut’s state senators. They are both democrats.

5. Borders and geography • New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and the Atlantic Ocean all border Connecticut. • The Connecticut River cuts the state of Connecticut in half. The river flows into Long Island Sound. • The Connecticut Valley Lowland extends through the center of Connecticut and north into Massachusetts. It averages 20 miles (32 kilometers) in width. Basalt ridges, including Hanging Hills, Mount Lamentation, and Talcott Mountain, rise from 300 to 600 feet (91 to 180 meters) above the valley.

6. Natural Resources/Agriculture/ Farming • A natural resource found in our state are forests. The state lacks large deposits of valuables minerals. • Our state would be good for farming because on World Book online (in the historical section) it said the earliest Connecticut colonist were farmers.

7. History and additional historical facts • Connecticut became a state January 9th, 1788, the fifth state. • Many towns including Fairfield, Farmington, and middle town joined the Connecticut colony in 1660. • In 2004, govnor John Rowland, who needed Connecticut since 1995, resigned from office. • In December 2012, one of the worst mass shootings took place at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown.

8. Places To Visit • You can visit the colonial buildings the colonial buildings are among Connecticut most famous land marks. • You can visit State parks and forests Connecticut has dozens of state parks and forests.

9. Additional facts • A law passed in 1650 required Connecticut towns with at least 50 families to hire someone from the town to teach the children to read and write. • In Connecticut, before 1650, schools were voluntary. • Connecticut's Yale university, founded in 1701, is the third oldest institution of higher learning in the U.S. • The Yale University library, founded in 1701 is the oldest library still operating in Connecticut. • The 1960s Stratford plants produced reentry vehicles for spacecraft, and middle town factories made small tape recorders to send signals. • During World War II (1939-1945), Connecticut an important supplier of war materials, such as airplane engines, propellers, shell cases, and submarines. • Other Connecticut tribes include Niantic, Paugusset, Quinnipiac, and WA gunk. • English colonists from Massachusetts established Connecticut's first permanent settlement. • The earliest Connecticut colonists were farmers. Most of them raised only enough food for their own needs. Each family made most of their own clothing, house hold supplies, and farmers tools.

10. Bibliography • Lewis, Thomas R, and Barbra M. Tucker. “ Connecticut “. World Book Student. World book, 2014. web. 6 may 2014