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New Jersey in the Age of Jackson

GRADES 9 THROUGH 12

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

"Mahlon Dickerson"
In The Governors of New Jersey, 1664-1974: Biographical Essays.
Edited by Paul A. Stellhorn and Michael J. Birkner.
Robert R. Beckwith,Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1982 (online publication), pp. 93-96.
http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Digidox6.php

"Samuel L. Southard"
In The Governors of New Jersey, 1664-1974: Biographical Essays.
Edited by Paul A. Stellhorn and Michael J. Birkner.
Michael J. Birkner,Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1982 (online publication), pp. 101-106.
http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Digidox6.php

"Peter Dumont Vroom"
In The Governors of New Jersey, 1664-1974: Biographical Essays.
Edited by Paul A. Stellhorn and Michael J. Birkner.
Herbert Erskowitz,Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1982 (online publication), pp. 98-101.
http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Digidox6.php

"Party Formation in New Jersey in the Jackson Era"
pp. 145-159. In A New Jersey Anthology,
edited and compiled by Maxine N. Lurie.
Richard P. McCormick, Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1994.

New Jersey Legacy Teachers Guide
Program Five. Monopolies and Mechanics
David S. Cohen. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission and New Jersey Network, 1999.

"Political Rivalries and Conflicts"
(Rise of Political Parties, Jacksonianism, the Constitution of 1844, the Joint Companies), pp. 29-42.
In Reshaping New Jersey: A History of Its Government and Politics
Stanley N. Worton. New Jersey History Series. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1997

Audio and Video

Monopolies and Mechanics
A 30-minute television documentary about New Jersey in the early nineteenth century. A co-production of New Jersey Network and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 1999.

Documents

New Jersey Legacy Teachers Guide
Program Five. Monopolies and Mechanics
David S. Cohen. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission and New Jersey Network, 1999.

Two Opinions of Monopoly, pp. 67-68.

Online Lectures

Michael Birkner, "Social Change and Party Politics in the Age of Jefferson and Jackson"
www.nj-history.org
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Click on "Market Revolution"
Click on "2nd Party System"
Click on "Online Lecture-Michael Birkner"

David Steven Cohen, "Robert F. Stockton and the Politics of Monopoly in New Jersey"
www.nj-history.org
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Click on "Market Revolution"
Click on "2nd Party System"
Click on "Online Lecture-David Cohen"

Internet Sites

New Jersey History Partnership Project
www.nj-history.org
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