Synopses & Reviews
New Jersey, A Journey of Discovery is a middle and high school New Jersey history textbook. The outline for this book is based on the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for Social Studies and teaches geography, history, civics, and economics. The book places the state's historical events in the context of our nation's history. The text contains dozens of photographs, local, historical, and contemporary. Features such as timelines, primary source documents, New Jersey portraits, Linking the Past to the Present, and What Do You Think? discussion questions deliver the content in an effective and inviting way, making history come to life.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1
From High Point to Cape May: New Jersey Geography
Chapter 2
The First People: The Lenape
Chapter 3
European Exploration and Settlement
Chapter 4
Colonial New Jersey
Chapter 5
Crossroads of the American Revolution
Chapter 6
A New Country
Chapter 7
The Age of Canals and Steam
Chapter 8
New Jersey and the Civil War
Chapter 9
Reconstruction, Immigrants, and the Industrial Revolution
Chapter 10
New Jersey in the Early Twentieth Century
Chapter 11
Depression and World War II
Chapter 12
Civil Rights, Growth, and More War
Chapter 13
Government for All
Chapter 14
Economics in the State and the Nation