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Title: Documents of Connecticut History


1
Topic 3 Integrating Connecticut History into
the Classroom
2
Documents of Connecticut History
  • Constitutional Documents
  • Slavery and Antislavery
  • Gender Equity

3
Connecticut was a Bible Commonwealth
4
Fundamental Orders 1638
  • Article 4 -
  • It is ordered, sentenced, and decreed that no
    person be chosen Governor above once in two
    years, and that the governor be always a member
    of some approved congregation

5
New Haven Colony Charter
  • Government of New Haven Colony
  • October 27 / November 6, 1643
  • It was agreed and concluded as a
    foundamentall order nott to be disputed or
    questioned hereafter, thatt none shall be
    admitted to be free burgesses in any of the
    plantations within this jurisdiction for the
    future, butt such planters as are members of some
    or other of the approved churches of New England,
    nor shall any butt such free burgesses have any
    vote in any election, (the six present freemen
    aft Milforde enjoying the liberty with the
    cautions agreed,) nor shall any power or trust in
    the ordering of any civill affayres, be aft any
    time putt into the hands of any other than such
    church members,

6
Charter of 1662
  • that for the better ordering and managing of the
    affairs and business of the said Company and
    their successors, there shall be one Governor,
    one Deputy Governor and Twelve Assistants to be
    from time to time Constituted, Elected and Chosen
    out of the Freemen of the said Company

7
Constitution of l8l8
  • Article One
  • Sec. 1. That all men when they form a social
    compact, are equal in rights and that no man, or
    set of men are entitled to exclusive public
    emoluments or privileges from the community.
  • Sec. 4. No preference shall be given by law to
    any Christian sect or mode of worship.

8
Constitution of l965
  • The federal court ordered Connecticut to conform
    to the directive of one man, one vote and as a
    result a Constitutional Convention was called to
    revise the Connecticut Constitution.

9
Key provisions of the Constitution of l965
  • Article 1 Sec. 7. The people shall be secure in
    their persons, houses, papers, and possessions
    from unreasonable searches or seizures and no
    warrant to search any place, or to seize any
    person or things, shall issue without describing
    them as nearly as may be, nor without probable
    cause supported by oath or affirmation.

10
1965 Constitution (cont.)
  • Article 1 Sec. 20. No person shall be denied the
    equal protection of the law nor be subjected to
    segregation or discrimination in the exercise or
    enjoyment of his civil or political rights
    because of religion, race, color, ancestry or
    national origin.

11
Article One
  • Section 11. The property of no person shall be
    taken for public use, without just compensation.
  • Section 15. Every citizen has a right to bear
    arms in defense of himself and the state.

12
Article One
  • Section 3. The exercise and enjoyment of
    religious profession and worship, without
    discrimination, shall forever be free to all
    persons in the state

13
John Bailey and A. Searle Pinney the two party
chairmen in l965
A. Searle Pinney, (R)
John Bailey, (D)
14
Slavery and the African-American Experience in
Connecticut
  • Prudence Crandall
  • Roger Sherman Baldwin
  • Joseph Cinque

15
Prudence Crandall, Abolitionist, Teacher, Heroine

16
Sarah Harris, Student at Miss Crandalls School
in Canterbury
17
Prudence Crandall, Abolitionist, Teacher, Heroine
18
Roger Sherman Baldwin, Governor of Connecticut
19
Portrait of Joseph Cinque by Nathaniel Jocelyn
20
GENDER EQUALITY IN THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS
21
  • Labor reform 1887 begins a long series of
    reform legislation passed by the Connecticut
    General Assembly including child labor laws,
    improvement in workplace conditions, and better
    wages.
  • Interest in elective politics.

22
Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association
  • Founded in l869 to further efforts
  • of Connecticuts women to secure
  • voting rights

23
Isabella Beecher Hooker, Founder of the
Connecticut Womens Suffrage Assoc.
24
Katherine Houghton Hepburn, Womens Rights
Advocate
25
Ella Grasso, l9l9-1981Begins Political Activism
through Connecticut League of Women Voters
First Woman Governor Of Connecticut Elected 1974
26
The Struggle for Womens Rights in
Connecticut
27
General Themes
Code of Domesticity
Equality Through Voting
Reforms Beyond Voting
28
Additional Theme Without Alienating Men, Work
Within Male Sphere and Succeed
29
The Struggle for Womens Rights in
Connecticut
  • 1820s 1860s
  • 1870s 1910
  • 1910 1950
  • 1950 2007

30
Prudence Crandall
31
Prudence Crandalls School in Canterbury,
Connecticut
32
Catherine Beecher
33
Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
34
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35
Isabella Beecher Hooker
36
Women Attempt to Improve Working
Conditions Better Pay, Shorter Hours,
Abolition of Child Labor
37
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
38
Susan B. Anthony
39
Alice Paul
40
Katherine Houghton Hepburn
41
Senator Frank Brandegee
42
Alice Paul
43
Clare Booth Luce
44
Chase Going Woodhouse
45
Ella Grasso
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