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New Jersey during the Civil War
A Growing State
Challenging Times
Changing Times
People
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A system of secret routes created by abolisitionists to help slaves escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
The way a people in a state, a region, or a country use resources to meet their needs.
What is the definition of "economy"
100
When World War I broke out in Europe in 1914, the United States did not choose a side. (the Allied Powers or the Central Powers)
What is remaining neutral?
100
Part of the New Deal that provided money for the elderly and unemployed.
What is Socal Security?
100
An abolitionist and Quaker who ran and Underground Railroad station from her home in Salem, NJ.
Who was Abigail Goodwin?
200
People who wanted to emancipate, or free enslaved people,and worked to change laws.
What is an abolitionist?
200
The Standard Oil Company in Bayonne, and the Campbell Canning Company on Camden are examples of these:
What are industries?
200
War materials made in New Jersey factories, which were shipped from New Jersey ports to help
What are munitions?
200
The creation of jobs during this event led to the ending of the Great Depression:
What is World War II?
200
An escaped slave, who then served as a conductor ont eh Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
300
Because they thought President Lincoln was going to end slavery, and they felt they needed slaves to run their plantations.
Why did Southern States wanted to secede or leave the United States?
300
New Jersey companies traded with companies in nearby cities of Philadelphia and New York City, and NJ had large numbers of workers and good roads and waterways. Workers came from other countries, and workers moved to cites from rural areas in NJ.
How was New Jersey's economy able to grow after the Civil War?
300
A share of ownership in a company that people bought using their savings or money borrowed from banks.
What is a stock?
300
People worked to guarantee the rights and freedoms of African Americans, which are granted to ALL citizens by the Constitution.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
300
An African American engineer who directed Edison's team that built the first electrical power station in New York City.
Who was Lewis Lattimer
400
A battle in the Civil War that many New Jerseyans were involved in.
What is the Battle of Gettsburg?
400
Factory owners were forced to improve working conditions for their employees.
What was the purpose of labor unions and strikes?
400
The stock market crash of 1929 led to this period of time in the 1930's
What is The Great Depression?
400
Anyting that makes a natural resource dirty or unsafe to use.
What is polllution?
400
A famous New Jersey inventor who built one of the first submarines.
Who was John P. Holland?
500
Free states were mostly in the North. They wanted to end slavery, while slave states, mostly in the South, wanted slavery to continue.
What were the two sides in the Civil War?
500
Immigration from European countries slowed down, so African Americans from the South traveled north for better paying jobs.
What was the Great Migration?
500
President Franklin D. Roosevets's plan to end the Great Depression.
What is The New Deal?
500
The deliberate use of violence to promote a cause.
What is terrorism?
500
New Jersey's most famous inventor, who had two laboratories, one in Menlo Park, and also in West Orange. His most important invention wat the first usable electric lightbulb.
Who was Thomas Edison?