Editing Connecticut (section)

=== Early statehood ===

====Early national period and industrial revolution====

Connecticut [[History of the United States Constitution#Ratification of the Constitution|ratified]] the [[Constitution of the United States|U.S. Constitution]] on January 9, 1788, becoming the fifth state.<ref name="AboutCT" />

The state prospered during the era following the American Revolution, as mills and textile factories were built and seaports flourished from trade<ref>{{cite book|last1=La Bella|first1=Laura|url={{google books|ZYJtf6CoCs4C|plainurl=yes|page=17}}|title=Connecticut: Past and Present|date=August 15, 2010|publisher=[[Rosen Publishing]]|location=New York|page=17|access-date=February 17, 2015}}</ref> and fisheries. After Congress established in 1790 the predecessor to the [[United States Revenue Cutter Service|U.S. Revenue Cutter Service]] that would evolve into the U.S. Coast Guard, President Washington assigned Jonathan Maltbie as one of seven masters to enforce customs regulations, with Maltbie monitoring the southern New England coast with a 48-foot [[cutter (boat)|cutter]] sloop named [[USRC Argus|''Argus'']].<ref>{{cite web|date=November 29, 2018|title=The Long Blue Line: Argus—first "Heritage" Class Offshore Patrol Cutter|url=https://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2018/11/tlbl-argus-first-opc-namesake/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728223445/https://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2018/11/tlbl-argus-first-opc-namesake/|archive-date=July 28, 2020|access-date=April 18, 2020|website=Coast Guard Compass}}</ref>

In 1786, Connecticut ceded territory to the U.S. government that became part of the [[Northwest Territory]]. The state retained land extending across the northern part of present-day Ohio called the [[Connecticut Western Reserve]].<ref name="United States Summary 2010, page V-5">{{cite report|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-2-1.pdf|title=User Notes by Table: Table 12|date=September 2010|publisher=United States Census Bureau|page=V-5|access-date=May 16, 2014|work=United States Summary: 2010, Population and Housing Unit Counts|archive-date=October 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019110435/http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-2-1.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> The Western Reserve section was settled largely by people from Connecticut, and they brought Connecticut place names to Ohio.

Connecticut made agreements with Pennsylvania and New York which extinguished the land claims within those states' boundaries and created the [[Connecticut Panhandle]]. The state then ceded the Western Reserve in 1800 to the federal government,<ref name="United States Summary 2010, page V-5" /> which brought it to its present boundaries (other than minor adjustments with Massachusetts).