Social Studies – Grade-5

SS.5.20

Demonstrate an understanding of the industrial North and the agricultural South before, during and after the Civil War.

• Research the roles and accomplishments of the leaders of the reform movements before and during the Civil War (e.g., abolition movement, Underground Railroad and other social reforms, etc.).
• Explain how specific events and issues led to the Civil War (e.g., sectionalism fueled by issues of slavery in the territories, states’ rights, election of 1860 and secession).
• Summarize key battles, strategies and turning points of the Civil War (e.g., Fort Sumter, Antietam, Gettysburg, other regional battles and the surrender at Appomattox).
• Compare the roles and accomplishments of historic figures of the Civil War (e.g., Abraham Lincoln (Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address) Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Clara Barton and Frederick Douglass, etc.).
• Explain the impact of the Civil War’s physical destruction on the nation and the people (e.g., soldiers, women, African Americans, and the civilian population, etc.).

SS.5.21

Examine the economic, political and social developments during Reconstruction.

• Explain the effects of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and the goals of Reconstruction.
• Characterize the effects of Reconstruction on African Americans (e.g., rights and restrictions, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth Amendments, rise of discriminatory laws and groups (Klu Klux Klan), motivations to relocate, and the actions of the Freedmen’s Bureau, etc.).

SS.5.22

Demonstrate an understanding of the advances in transportation and its effect on Western Expansion.

• Illustrate how railroads affected development of the West (e.g., ease of travel, influence on trade and impact on environment, etc.).
• Compare and contrast conflicts between various groups in the West (e.g., miners, ranchers, cowboys, Native Americans, Mexican Americans and European and Asian immigrants, etc.).

SS.5.23

Demonstrate an understanding of major domestic and foreign developments that contributed to the United States becoming a world power.

• Summarize key events and political leaders surrounding the Spanish-American War and the annexation of new territory.
• Explain the United States involvement in Latin America and the role they played in the building of the Panama Canal.
• Describe how the need for new markets led to the buildup of the Navy and the need for naval bases in the Pacific.

SS.5.24

Analyze the people and the factors that led to Industrialization in the late 19th century United States.

• Examine how the Industrial Revolution was furthered by new inventions and technologies (e.g., light bulb, telegraph, automobile, assembly line, etc.).
• Identify prominent inventors and scientists of the period and summarize their inventions or discoveries (e.g., Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright Brothers, Henry Ford and Albert Einstein, etc.).
• Explain the causes and effects of immigration and urbanization on the American economy during the Industrial Revolution (e.g., role of immigrants, the growth of cities, the shift to industrialization, the rise of big business and reform movements, etc.).