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394:, the publication of this survey helps to increase the state's involvement in agricultural research and direct support to farmers. As agriculture became a less reliable source of income for New Jerseyans, many began turning towards more industrialized methods. Many immigrants increased the population of New Jersey greatly. Most of them came from Germany, Wales, and Ireland.
718:. These cities prospered through constant production even after the end of the war. Cities like those of Paterson and Camden became crucial to the Northern war effort. With the Union's ability to manufacture more supplies, the Union was able to defeat the Confederates and successfully conclude the war and reunite the country.
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Population growth was steady across the state, and especially grew rapidly after 1840s when the cities began building up. furthermore after the 1840s, a steady flow of immigration from Europe, especially
Germany, Ireland and Britain, gave a more cosmopolitan aura to urban areas. Rural areas prospered
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population of New Jersey was especially intolerant of slavery. However, New Jersey ended up becoming the last of the northern states to abolish slavery by enacting legislation which caused the slow abolishment of slavery. Though New Jersey passed an act for the gradual abolition of slavery in 1804,
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The economy of New Jersey was largely based on agriculture. However, crop failures and other agricultural problems plagued the settlers of New Jersey. Soil was becoming less fertile and worn out. However, New Jersey eventually funded an extensive effort that led to publication in the early 1850s of
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He favored the Old School position, which was favorable toward ritual and hostile to revivalism. However he worked hard to prevent a schism in the church, as he held church unity to be more important than the particular factional beliefs. He also sought to hold the
Presbyterian Church aloof from
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No battles took place within New Jersey throughout the course of the Civil War. However, over 88,000 soldiers from New Jersey were part of several infantry and cavalry regiments. In total, 31 regiments were created by New Jersey soldiers during this war, along with four militia regiments, three
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was written in 1844. The constitution provided the right of suffrage only to white males, removing it from women and non-white men. The right of suffrage had previously been awarded to those groups under the
Original New Jersey State Constitution of 1776. Some of the important components of the
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built a 10-ton locomotive in
England and transported it to New Jersey. Since it was too heavy to run on regular wooden tracks, his son, also by the name of John, started constructing iron railroads. By 1833, the Camden & Amboy railroad had been completed, allowing a 7-hour passage between
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at the state local levels. For example, Bruce
Bendler argues that in New Jersey the same dramatic changes that were reshaping the rest of the country were especially pointed in that state in the 1820s. A new political system emerged by the end of the decade as voters polarized in support or
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Augmented by new immigration from the
Netherlands, the long-established Dutch areas grew and modernized especially in the Passaic Valley. Some remained in farming, but many others moved into textiles, construction, food industries and the professions.
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opposition to
Jackson. By the 1830s pro-Jackson Democrats and anti-Jackson Whigs had mobilize practically every adult male voter into their opposing coalitions thereby integrating politics at the local state and national levels Furthermore, the "
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The agricultural products from New Jersey usually were transported to larger markets in New York City and
Philadelphia. In order to make such transporting of crops more profitable, newer transportation methods were devised. The first oceangoing
446:, famous inventor, was born in 1847. He was called "the Wizard of Menlo Park" for his amazing inventions and improvements to other ideas. Over the course of his entire life, he was granted 1,093 patents. He worked in
640:, about a dozen African-Americans in New Jersey were still apprenticed freedmen. New Jersey at first refused to ratify the Constitutional Amendments that banned slavery. New Jersey was a major part of the extensive
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by the nearby presence of two rapidly growing metropolitan centers in New York City and
Philadelphia which purchased more and better foods as farmers modernized their techniques and made heavy use of railways.
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Though no major battles were fought in New Jersey, soldiers and volunteers from New Jersey played an important part in the wars fought by the United States of
America. During the
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John Fea has explored the links between agrarianism, republican politics, and Presbyterian moral thought in New Jersey in the 1790-1820 period. Devout Presbyterians admired
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sectional strife regarding the expansion of slavery that led to the Civil War, though he insisted that the church must bear witness to Christian themes on political issues.
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second State Constitution include the separation of the powers of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. The new constitution also provided a
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Philadelphia and New York City. Throughout the 1800s, over a dozen companies were operating railroad lines. By the end of the century the shores of the
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were dominated by rail infrastructure including passenger terminals, ferries slips, and freight operations owned by several competing railroads.
652:. Soldiers from New Jersey fought generally in the Eastern theater of the Civil War Over 6,000 soldiers from New Jersey were killed in the war.
499:, around the southern tip of New Jersey, and ended in Philadelphia. Later, systems of canals were also built, the first of which is called the
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Geoff D. Zylstra, "Stretching Time, Collapsing Space: How New Jersey Market Gardeners Used Technology to Control Production, 1838–1876."
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grew extremely strong through the duration of the Civil War. They produced many necessities, including clothing and war materials like
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manufacturing. As a result of its high silk production, it became nicknamed the "Silk City". In 1835,
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cavalry regiments, and five batteries of light artillery. 23,116 of those soldiers served in the
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was an important general during the Civil War, and was elected
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Agriculture in New Jersey: A three-hundred-year history
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History of Paterson and its environs (The Silk City)
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675:New Jersey was one of the few states to vote for
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554:Historians have examined the emergence of the
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440:began producing firearms in the city.
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793:American Nineteenth Century History
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960:New Jersey. History Committee.
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658:Mexican–American War
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338:Princeton University
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535:Locomotion
495:went from
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464:Dictaphone
456:phonograph
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306:1,883,669
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