The New Jersey Adventure, revised edition

The New Jersey Adventure is a 4th grade New Jersey history textbook. The outline for this book is based on the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for Social Studies and teaches history, economics, and geography. 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
Natural New Jersey
Chapter 2
The First People
Chapter 3
Exploration and European Settlement
Chapter 4
An English Colony
Chapter 5
Colonial Life
Chapter 6
Crossroads of the American Revolution
Chapter 7
A New Country in the Making
Chapter 8
From Farms to Factories
Chapter 9
Liberty and Justice for All
Chapter 10
New Jersey's Part in the American Dream
Chapter 11
Inventions, Industry, Depression, and War
Chapter 12
A Time of Growth and Change
Chapter 13
Making a Living in New Jersey