colonies

  • giovanni de verrazano
    Mar 24, 1524

    giovanni de verrazano

    He explored new jerseys costline
  • Henry Hudson

    Henry Hudson

    Henry Hudson sailed into bay, claimed land for the dutch and named it New Netherlands
  • First settlement

    First settlement

    the first settlement was at Bergen, a village a few miles west of New York
  • Delaware river

    Delaware river

    Swedish colonies established along the Delaware river
  • named

    named

    it was named in 1664
  • Philip Cartere

    Philip Cartere

    philp carteret was appointed governor
  • Dutch Government

    new jersey went to dutch government because of the war between Holland and England
  • returned to English

    the next year they went back to English
  • new jersey was divided

    new jersey was divided

    new jersey was divided into west and east new jersey
  • William and Mary

    William and Mary

    both new jersey and new York we annexed to new England until William and Mary became throne
  • crown colony

    crown colony

    east and west new jersey became crown colony under supervision of government of new York
  • Separation

    Separation

    New Jersey Separated from new york.
  • Government

    new jersey formed its own government
  • tea burning

    tea burning

    tea burning at Greenwich in protest of taxes
  • state constitution

    state constitution

    george washington crossed the delaware river from pennsylvania in surprise attack on british, Washington defeated British at the battle of trenton.
  • 100 battles

    there was over 100 ion new jersey
  • Trenton

    Trenton

    trenton was declared state capital, and New Jersey was the first to sign the bill of rights
  • Alexander Hamilton

    Alexander Hamilton

    he built the country's first planned industrial city in paterson
  • Third us state

    new jersey became the third us state
  • Free Slaves

    New Jersey became the last state in the northeast to free slaves as it had more slaves than any other Northern state
  • Famous duel

    Famous duel

    Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr have a famous duel in weehawken
  • woman's vote

    woman's vote

    woman lose the right to vote
  • New Jersey's constitution

    New Jersey's constitution

    New Jersey adopts it first state constitution.
  • Grover Cleveland

    Grover Cleveland

    New Jersey native, elected U.S. President
  • Governor Woodrow Wilson

    Governor Woodrow Wilson

    New Jersey's governor woodrow wilson was elected president of the US
  • Miss America Pageant

    Miss America Pageant

    the first miss america pageant was held in new jersey
  • Little League Baseball tournaments

    the first new jersey state little league baseball tournaments was played
  • Battleship

    Battleship

    New Jerseys battleship became a museum
  • farmland

    farmland

    New Jersey preserves a recorded 20,000 acres of farmland
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    Governor Corrine Signed a bill to eliminate the death penalty