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- Era 1: Colonization and Settlement (1585–1763)
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- Property Rights and U.S. History – Jamestown Simulation
- Indentured Servitude – A Colonial Market for Labor
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- No Taxation Without Representation
- Could the American Revolution Have Been Avoided?
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- New Jersey’s First Constitution, 1776
- The Brotherton Indians of New Jersey
- A New Jersey Woman Petitions for Property, 1786
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- Federalists and Anti-Federalists: Federalism Today
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- The Debate in Congress on the Sedition Act
- Era 2: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s) - Article
- Era 3: Expansion and Reform (1801–1861)
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- The Impact of the Cotton Gin
- The Louisiana Purchase
- John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, and Judicial Review
- New Jersey and the War of 1812
- Slavery, Abolition, and the Underground Railroad in New Jersey
- Dorothea Dix and Reform in New Jersey
- The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson and the Growth of Party Politics
- Common Man and Contradictions: A Mock Trial of Andrew Jackson
- The Nullification Crisis
- Cherokee Resistance and Removal
- The Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments
- Era 3: Expansion and Reform (1801–1861) - Article
- Era 4: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850–1877)
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- New Jersey and the Civil War
- The Emancipation Proclamation: Freedom’s First Steps
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- Homesteader Opportunities and Obstacles
- The Struggle for Women’s Rights in the 19th Century
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- The Impact of the Fourteenth Amendment
- The Expansion of Democracy during Reconstruction
- Political Violence and the Overthrow of Reconstruction
- Era 4: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850–1877) - Article
- Era 5: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870–1900)
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- The Era of Trusts
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- Homestead Strike
- Labor Unrest in the Gilded Era
- Westward Expansion
- The Impact of Westward Expansion on Native American Communities
- Nicodemus and Black Settlements in the West
- The Oklahoma Land Rush – Property Rights on the American Frontier
- The Carlisle Indian Industrial School
- Sharecropping
- Attacking Financial Panics: The Panic of 1893
- Era 5: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870–1900) - Article
- Era 6: The Emergence of Modern America: Progressive Reforms (1890–1930)
- Era 6: The Emergence of Modern America: Progressive Reforms (1890–1930) - Article
- Alice Paul and the Suffragist Movement
- Settlement Houses
- New Jersey Political Machines and Efforts to End Political Corruption
- Political Bosses and Muckrakers
- Child Labor
- Lochner and Muller: The Labor of Bakers and Protection of Laundry Workers
- Racial Violence in America: Lynchings, 1877-1920
- The Paterson Silk Strike, 1913
- Era 6: The Emergence of Modern America: Progressive Reforms (1890–1930) - Article
- Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America: World War I (1890–1930)
- Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America: World War I (1890–1930) - Article
- Ellis Island - Island of Hope, Island of Tears
- Immigration Policy and Its Impact on New Jersey
- U.S Entry into World War I
- American Women and World War I
- Americans All: Foreign-born Soldiers and World War I
- World War I, African American Soldiers, and America’s War for Democracy
- Sedition in World War I
- New Jersey and World War I
- Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America: World War I (1890–1930) - Article
- Era 8: The Emergence of Modern America: Roaring Twenties (1890–1930)
- Era 9: The Great Depression and World War II: The Great Depression (1929–1945)
- Era 10: The Great Depression and World War II: New Deal (1929–1945)
- Era 11: The Great Depression and World War II: World War II (1929–1945)
- Era 11: The Great Depression and World War II: World War II (1929–1945) - Article
- Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms
- Four Freedoms and the United States Constitution
- New Jersey and World War II: The Front and The Home Front
- The Arsenal of Democracy; The United States in World War II
- Confronting Workplace Discrimination During World War II
- Japanese American Internment
- Korematsu v. United States (1944)
- Decision to Drop an Atomic Bomb
- Era 11: The Great Depression and World War II: World War II (1929–1945) - Article
- Era 12: Postwar United States: Cold War (1945 - 1970s)
- Era 12: Postwar United States: Cold War (1945 - 1970s) - Article
- The Creation of the United Nations, 1945
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution
- Marshall Plan: Convince the American People
- Truman’s Decision to Fire General MacArthur (Civilian Control of the Military), 1951
- Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, 1961
- Landing a Man on the Moon; President Nixon and the Apollo
- New Jersey and The Vietnam War
- Era 12: Postwar United States: Cold War (1945 - 1970s) - Article
- Era 13: Postwar United States: Civil Rights and Social Change (1945 to early 1970s)
- Era 13: Postwar United States: Civil Rights and Social Change (1945 to early 1970s) - Article
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- Congress Investigates: Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency Investigates Comic Books in the 1950s
- Women in the Workforce after World War II
- The Little Rock Nine
- American Indian Voting Rights Throughout History
- LBJ’s Great Society
- Civil Rights and Urban Race Riots in New Jersey
- Era 13: Postwar United States: Civil Rights and Social Change (1945 to early 1970s) - Article
- Era 14: Contemporary United States: Domestic Policies (1970–Today)
- Era 14: Contemporary United States: Domestic Policies (1970–Today) - Article
- Cellphones: The Government and the Economy
- The People’s Pie
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- The Equal Rights Amendment
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- New Jersey’s Government: The Powerful Governor
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- New Jersey Government: The Judiciary
- One Man, One Vote and Redistricting in New Jersey
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- School Desegregation and School Funding in New Jersey
- Should the Electoral College be Abolished?
- Hurricane Katrina
- The Flow of Money (Circular Flow, Monetary Policy, and COVID-19)
- Era 14: Contemporary United States: Domestic Policies (1970–Today) - Article
- Era 15: Contemporary United States: International Policies (1970–Today)
- Era 16: Contemporary United States: Interconnected Global Society (1970-today)
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- Standard Oil of New Jersey and the Effort to End Monopolies
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