Which road serves as the major thoroughfare between New York and Philadelphia?
a. Garden State Parkway
B. New Jersey Turnpike
C. Interstate 95
D. Palisades Interstate Parkway
What is New Jersey Turnpike?
100
What is New Jersey's nickname?
A. Garden State
B. Surprising State
C. Road State
D. Diner State
What is Garden State?
100
The Lenni-Lenape were early settlers in NJ who migrated from Canada. The European colonists called the Lenni-Lenape _________________ because their villages lay along the Delaware River.
a. Mohawk B. Delaware c. Cherokee d. Cheyenne
What is Delaware?
100
In Lenni-Lenape villages, families lived in.....
A. longhouses
B. teepees
C. Cliffside dwellings
D. roundhouses
What are roundhouses?
100
The Lenni-Lenape wrote a creation myth, similar to the first chapter of the Bible, on a piece of tree bark called Walum Olum, which means.......
A. written record
B. story of life
C. painted records
What is painted records?
200
The Dutch claimed a large part of New York and New Jersey named it....
A. New Holland
B. New Netherland
C. New Amsterdam
D. New England
What is New Netherland?
200
Who built the first log cabins in the United States in New Jersey?
a. Irish immigrants
b. Dutch immigrants
c. English immigrants
d. Swedish immigrants
Who are Swedish immigrants?
200
What was the first permanent European settlement in NJ?
a. Fort Bergen
b. Mey's Fort
c. Trenton
D. Sandy Hook
What is Fort Bergen?
200
In 1664, British soldiers took control of the territory. King Charles II gave the northern region to his brother and the southern region to....
a. John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret
b. Henry Hudson
c. Peter Stuyvesant
Who are John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret?
200
The southern region was named New Jersey to honor_____, who was governor of England's Jersey.
A. John Berkeley
B. Henry Hudson
C. Sir George Carteret
D. James, Duke of York
Who is Sir George Carteret?
300
For the first 40 years, the British colony of NJ was divided into....
a. North Jersey and South Jersey
b. West Jersey and East Jersey
c. Jersey and Holstein
d. Pennsylvania and New York
What is West Jersey and East Jersey?
300
England united East Jersey and West Jersey into a single colony in....
a. 1700
b. 1695
c. 1702
d. 1735
What is 1702?
300
For more than 70 years, the colony had two capitals. what were the capital cities?
a. Perth Amboy and Burlington
b. Trenton and Hackensack
c. Shrewsbury and Bergen
d. Varenskill and Burlington
What is Perth Amboy and Burlington?
300
Where was NJ first glass-making factory built in 1740?
a. Shrewsbury
b. Allowaystown
c. Trenton
d. Bergen
What is Allowaystown?
300
Which NJ Quaker was one of the first Americans to speak against the evils of slavery?
a. William Penn
b. John Woolman
c. William Franklin
D. John Stevens
Who is John Woolman?
400
NJ men dressed as Indians burned a shipload of tea in 1774. What was the action called?
a. Boston Tea Party
b. Trenton Tea Party
c. Greenwich Tea Burning
d. Perth Amboy Tea Burning
What is Greenwich Tea Burning?
400
Which hero of the Battle of Monmouth was known as Molly Pitcher?
a. Betsey Ross
b. Mary Ludwig Hays
c. James Monroe
d. George Washington
Who is Mary Ludwig Hays?
400
Turnpike companies maintained NJ's roads and bridges and __________ for travelers to use the roads.
a. collected a tax
b. rented wagons
c. rented horses
d. charged a fee
What is charged a fee?
400
Vice-President Aaron Burr and Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton fought their duel at...
a. Paterson
b. Bergen
c. Weehawken
d. Perth Amboy
What is Weehawken?
400
What city became the first official state capital in 1790?
a. Trenton
b. Bergen
c. Hackensack
d. Paterson
What is Trenton?
500
Who operated the first railroad in NJ?
a Robert L. Stevens
b. Samuel Colt
c. Thomas Edison
d. John D. Rockefeller
Who is Robert L. Stevens?
500
Who built the first successful steam locomotive in the US?
a. John Stevens
b. Robert L. Stevens
c. Robert Louis Stevenson
d. Thomas Edison
Who is John Stevens?
500
New Jersey had more ________________ than any other Northern state.
a. railroads
b. roads
c factories
d. slaves
What are slaves?
500
What organization created a network that helped escaping slaves?
a. Underground Escape
b. Underground Railroad
c. Secret Slave System
d. Secret Escape Route
What is the Underground Railroad?
500
Which religious group led the Underground Railroad in NJ?
a. Moravians
b. Catholics
c. Puritans
d. Quakers