Content Area: Social Studies

 

Index: 6.4E Grade 12 CPI 5

 

Standard: 6.4 - US & NJ History

 

Strand: E -  Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820)

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 5 -  The student will analyze New Jersey’s role in the American Revolution, including New Jersey’s Constitution of 1776 as a revolutionary document, why some New Jerseyans became Loyalists, and the Battles of Trenton, Princeton, and Monmouth.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        Early New Jersey. The elementary child gradually develops an understanding of historic time and of the past. At this stage, we can provide some concrete tools to aid in this development. A study of laws and reforms—especially those regarding children—will bring abstract ideas closer to reality. Visual tools such as timelines make abstract time periods more real. For example, students study the early history of New Jersey: the Native Americans, primarily the local Lenni-Lenape tribes; early explorations to the Dutch and English settlements; and the important role of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War. Focus mostly on biographies of important persons as well as the everyday lives of individuals and families. Students become conversant with important names and facts in New Jersey history, such as the following:
·        The Hackensacks was a Lenape tribe.

      ·        Salem, the first Quaker colony, was founded in 1675.
·        King Charles II of England made a land-grant of a tract extending from the Connecticut River to the Delaware Bay, which was later released (June 23, 1664) to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret.
·        Early explorers of the northern part of New Jersey included Henry Hudson (Hudson River) and Giovanni deVerrazano (Verrazano Bridge).
·        The first settlers who established residence in New Jersey were the Swedes. The town of Swedesboro remains.

Encourage students to learn more about how their own town or city was named. Doing so may spark a more general interest in state history.