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SUMMER INSTITUTE 2013
QUESTIONS & IMAGES
NEW JERSEY’S HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
THE GEOGRAPHY OF NEW JERSEY
ROWAN UNIVERSITY
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Question: What is Human Geography?
CULTURE RACE POLITICS
ECONOMICS
HUMAN GEOGRAPH
Y
POPULATION
ETHNICITY HISTORY ECOLOGY
“the application of a spatial perspective to the study of humans, our ways, and the footprint
we leave on the planet”
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Question: What are the two ways the population of a place like New Jersey can grow?
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Question: What factors help explain varying rates of population growth in New Jersey over the past 200 years?
NEW JERSEY POPULATION
Pop. % Gain
1790 184,139
1800 211,149 14.7%
1810 245,562 16.3%
1820 277,575 13.0%
1830 320,823 15.6%
1840 373,306 16.4%
1850 489,555 31.1%
1860 672,035 37.3%
1870 906,096 34.8%
1880 1,131,116 24.8%
1890 1,444,933 27.7%
1900 1,883,669 30.4%
1910 2,537,167 34.7%
1920 3,155,900 24.4%
1930 4,041,334 28.1%
1940 4,160,165 2.9%
1950 4,835,329 16.2%
1960 6,066,782 25.5%
1970 7,168,164 18.2%
1980 7,364,823 2.7%
1990 7,730,188 5.0%
2000 8,414,350 8.9%
2010 8,791,894 4.5%
DMT Stage
Explanation Time Periods
What Was Happening in New Jersey?
1 High Birth & Death Rates
1790-1840 Agricultural lifestyle – need boysSmallpox, TB – Hi child mortality
2 Death Rates Fall, Birth Rates High
1840-19301930-19451945-1970
Immunization & Immigration !Great Depression & WWIIBaby Boomers – only Dad works
3 Birth Rates Fall 1970-1990 Empowerment of women; women marry later, fewer children
4 Low Birth & Death Rates
1990-2010 Euro-NJ averaging 2 or fewer kidsLatino/Asian higher fertility rates
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Question: Who were the original residents of New Jersey?
Chief Oratam, sachem of the Hackensack Lenape
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Question: Why was the path taken by African-Americans to New Jersey an unusual one?
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Question: What role did New Jersey play in the greatest mass migration in human history?
1850 1880 1900 1930 1960
GermanyIreland *
England
Poland **Russia **Italy
* response to Irish Potato Famine of 1845-52 ** mostly Eastern European Jews
Summary of Major European Immigration to U.S.
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Question: What ingredients form New Jersey’s melting pot today?
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Question: What were the roots of New Jersey’s transportation system?
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Question: How did people travel before the automobile?
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Question: Why do we owe much of what New Jersey is today to the railroads?
Jersey Central running through coal regions of PA’s Lehigh Valley enroute to Jersey City hub
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Question: Which 20th century invention changed life in New Jersey the most?
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Question: What happened in Lakehurst, NJ on May 6, 1937?
The famous newsreel footage
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Question: The first ______ opened in Camden in August, 1933?
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Question: How did transportation change the way we want to work & live in New Jersey? How was this change part of a larger
process still unfolding?
THE CITY
JOBS PEOPLE
1780-1860
JOBS
PEOPLE
1860-1920
PEOPLE JOBS
JOBS
PEOPLE
1970-2011
1920-1970
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Question: Which New Jersey resident was responsible for helping to launch the Age of Manufacturing & Technology?
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Question: How can one company – Roebling of Trenton – illustrate the history of manufacturing in New Jersey?
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Question: Which companies spearheaded the Age of Information in New Jersey, and how did this change how we (and who) did
business?
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Question: Have Atlantic City’s casino’s delivered on their promise?
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Question: Who
were the original
European settlers in
what is now
called New
Jersey?
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Question: How was New Jersey originally divided, and why did we almost go to war with New York over it?!
East & West Jersey, circa 1700
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Question: Why was New Jersey called the Crossroads of the Revolutionary War?
Check out the map that allowed Washington to triumph at the Battle of
Princeton
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Question: What were some of the critical, fascinating, and controversial ways New Jersey participated in the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln in Gen. McClellan’s tent at Antietam
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Question: Who were some of New Jersey most prominent heroes and villains?
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Question: How does the idea of “regionalism” help define the cultural geography of New Jersey?
“There is something about Jersey Pride.
But many of us still form our identities around major metropolitan areas: North Jersey with New York, South Jersey with Philadelphia and the Shore people tend to wrap their arms around the beach and dread the mainland (or at least anything 5 miles west of them).
The rest of us might find something else to rally around: the Boss, a diner or Rutgers football.”
(a NJ filmmaker)
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Question: How has New Jersey and especially the Jersey Shore continued to shape American culture for generations?
Snooki & Rutgers make “The Ridiculist List”
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Question: How have the needs of a growing population impacted the environment in New Jersey?
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Question: How has the NJ Pinelands Commission
successfully preserved nearly 1 million acres
of forest in the heart of New Jersey?
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Question: What other ecological and open space initiatives are at work in New Jersey?
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Question: What man-made threats does the Jersey Shore face today?
“Barrier islands are ideal habitat for wildlife, not for people”
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Fun Fact: First Evidence of Big Bang Found in New Jersey !
Scientists Wilson & Penzias in front of Bell Labs dish in Holmdel, NJ