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The New Jersey History Kids multimedia website is intended to instruct New Jersey students in grades K through 4 in New Jersey History and Social Studies in accordance with the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards in Social Studies, adopted by the New Jersey State Department of Education in October 2004. The website consists of eleven ...
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Schooners on the Bay, a half-hour television documentary...
- A Short History of New Jersey
The colonial history of New Jersey started after Henry...
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Marbled salamanders, red-spotted newts, and New Jersey chorus frogs are among its amphibians. The state’s many trees include sugar maple, American chestnut, flowering dogwood, pitch pine, and American elm. Black-eyed Susans, orange daylilies, Queen Anne’s lace, and violets (the state flower) are some of the wildflowers that grow here.
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1787 - New Jersey ratifies the U.S. Constitution and becomes the 3rd state. 1790 - Trenton becomes the capital. 1804 - New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery. 1846 - The first professional baseball game is played in Hoboken. 1876 - Thomas Edison opens his famous lab in Menlo Park.
The history of what is now New Jersey begins at the end of the Younger Dryas, about 15,000 years ago. Native Americans moved into New town reversal of the Younger Dryas; before then an ice sheet hundreds of feet thick had made the area of northern New Jersey uninhabitable. European contact began with the exploration of the Jersey Shore by ...
When it became a state, New Jersey gained the nickname the Garden State. At the time it had many farms in the west and south. Although it is one of the country’s smallest states in area, it has one of the largest populations. In fact, New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the United States. The capital is Trenton.
New Jersey’s state capital is Trenton, a center of services and manufacturing. The city served briefly as the capital of the United States in 1784. It is located on the Delaware River across from the Pennsylvania border, only 34 miles (55 kilometers) northeast of Philadelphia. Smallbones.
