"The Children's Hour," Harper's Weekly, August 15, 1874, after a sketch
by Winslow Homer in Pictorial Guide to Victorian New Jersey, ed. by
Robert B. Burnett (1986). Long Branch, NJ

1. What were New Jersey's sentiments regarding the Civil War? 2, . What stand did New Jersey's Democratic and Republican parties take on the candidacy and election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and 1864 and the gubernatorial election in 1862? 3. What was New Jersey's reaction to the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation and the draft? 4. How did New Jersey respond to the passage of the proposed Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments? 5. How did the Civil War affect the economic development of New Jersey and its future industrialization? How did Edison and Roebling help "modernize" the nation? 6. What was the status of education in New Jersey by the post-Civil War era? 7. How did transportation contribute to the development of New Jersey's resort industry? 8. Why is Long Branch call the "resort of Presidents"?