Grade 5 Social Studies Alabama standards Standards

United States Studies: Beginnings to the Industrial Revolution

Locate on a map physical features that impacted the exploration and settlement of the Americas, including ocean currents, prevailing winds, large forests, major rivers, and significant mountain ranges.

Locating on a map states and capitals east of the Mississippi River

Identifying natural harbors in North America

Describe political, social, and economic events between 1803 and 1860 that led to the expansion of the territory of the United States, including the War of 1812, the Indian Removal Act, the Texas-Mexican War, the Mexican-American War, and the Gold Rush of 1849.

Analyzing the role of the Louisiana Purchase and explorations of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark for their impact on Westward Expansion

Explaining the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine

Identifying Alabama's role in the expansion movement in the United States, including the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and the Trail of Tears

Identifying the impact of technological developments on United States' expansion

Identify causes of the Civil War, including states' rights and the issue of slavery.

Describing the importance of the Missouri Compromise, Nat Turner's insurrection, the Compromise of 1850, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's rebellion, and the election of 1860

Recognizing key Northern and Southern personalities, including Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Joseph Wheeler

Describing social, economic, and political conditions that affected citizens during the Civil War

Identifying Alabama's role in the Civil War

Locating on a map sites important to the Civil War

Explaining events that led to the conclusion of the Civil War

Summarize successes and failures of the Reconstruction Era.

Evaluating the extension of citizenship rights to African Americans included in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States

Analyzing the impact of Reconstruction for its effect on education and social institutions in the United States

Explaining the black codes and the Jim Crow laws

Describing post-Civil War land distribution, including tenant farming and sharecropping

Describe social and economic influences on United States' expansion prior to World War I.

Explaining how the development of transcontinental railroads helped the United States achieve its Manifest Destiny

Locating on a map states, capitals, and important geographic features west of the Mississippi River

Explaining how the United States acquired Alaska and Hawaii

Identifying major groups and individuals involved with the Westward Expansion, including farmers, ranchers, Jewish merchants, Mormons, and Hispanics

Analyzing the impact of closing the frontier on American Indians' way of life

Explaining how the Spanish-American War led to the emergence of the United States as a world power

Identify causes and effects of early migration and settlement of North America.

Distinguish differences among major American Indian cultures in North America according to geographic region, natural resources, community organization, economy, and belief systems.

Locating on a map American Indian nations according to geographic region

Determine the economic and cultural impact of European exploration during the Age of Discovery upon European society and American Indians.

Identifying significant early European patrons, explorers, and their countries of origin, including early settlements in the New World

Tracing the development and impact of the Columbian Exchange

Explain the early colonization of North America and reasons for settlement in the Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies, including geographic features, landforms, and differences in climate among the colonies.

Recognizing how colonial development was influenced by the desire for religious freedom

Identifying influential leaders in colonial society

Describing emerging colonial government

Describe colonial economic life and labor systems in the Americas.

Recognizing centers of slave trade in the Western Hemisphere and the establishment of the Triangular Trade Route

Determine causes and events leading to the American Revolution, including the French and Indian War, the Stamp Act, the Intolerable Acts, the Boston Massacre, and the Boston Tea Party.

Identify major events of the American Revolution, including the battles of Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, and Yorktown.

Describing principles contained in the Declaration of Independence

Explaining contributions of Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, George Washington, Haym Solomon, and supporters from other countries to the American Revolution

Explaining contributions of ordinary citizens, including African Americans and women, to the American Revolution

Describing efforts to mobilize support for the American Revolution by the Minutemen, Committees of Correspondence, First Continental Congress, Sons of Liberty, boycotts, and the Second Continental Congress

Locating on a map major battle sites of the American Revolution, including the battles of Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, and Yorktown

Recognizing reasons for colonial victory in the American Revolution

Explaining the effect of the Treaty of Paris of 1783 on the development of the United States

Explain how inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation led to the creation and eventual ratification of the Constitution of the United States.

Describing major ideas, concepts, and limitations of the Constitution of the United States, including duties and powers of the three branches of government

Identifying factions in favor of and opposed to ratification of the Constitution of the United States

Identifying main principles in the Bill of Rights

Analyzing the election of George Washington as President of the United States for its impact on the role of president in a republic

United States Studies: Beginnings to the Industrial Revolution

Locate the boundaries of the United States on a map of North America; recognize state lines on a map and locate the state of Alabama; identify the location of major rivers, lakes, and mountain ranges, including Mobile Bay, the Mississippi River, the Great Lakes, and the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains.

Recognize reasons people would move from their homes to new land in the west and the impact westward expansion had on American Indians; identify at least one or more people, movements, and events involved in America’s early westward expansion, including Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea, the Indian Removal Act, and the gold rush; identify the inventions that aided westward expansion, including the railroad and the steamboat; illustrate the completion of the contiguous United States on a map.

Define civil war; recognize one or more key figures of the Civil War, including Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis; label a map of the United States with Southern and Northern states involved in the Civil War.

Identifying Alabama’s role in the Civil War. Example: Montgomery was the first Confederate capitol.

Define the Reconstruction as the rebuilding of the South and its reintegration into the United States; identify at least one success and one failure of the reconstruction era, including the successes of the thirteenth through fifteenth Amendments, the Freedmen’s Bureau, Jim Crow laws, sharecropping, tenant farming, the election of African American politicians, and the failures of Black Codes.

Identify natural resources and geographic features of the American West, Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountains, and Colorado River; illustrate the completion of the territorial United States on a map; recognize farmers and ranchers as major groups involved in westward expansion; explain the impact of westward expansion on American Indians.

Demonstrate an understanding that people often move from one place to another; recognize why people move from one place to another and how that applies to the early migration to North America.

Recognize that there were many American Indian cultures in North America.

Locate North America and Europe on a world map to illustrate journey; identify primary early European explorers, including Columbus, De Soto, and Magellan; recognize that European explorers sailed to America for economic, religious, and personal gain.

Classify the American colonies into three regions, each with distinct climates and natural resources (South: farming, warm climate, Middle: farming, trading, moderate climate, New England: subsistence farming, trade, shipbuilding, cold climate); recognize characteristics of early colonial life in North America.

Identify what was called Triangular Trade and on a map, show the triangular trade route and slave trade route.

Define revolution; recognize causes and events that led to the American Revolution including the Stamp Act and Boston Tea Party.

Identify why the people in the American colonies separated and declared independence from Great Britain and eventually became the United States; recognize at least one important factor contributing to American independence including key battles, influential leaders, and the efforts of ordinary men and women including the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Saratoga, and Yorktown, George Washington, and the Minutemen.

Define constitution as a plan of government; identify the three branches of government; identify the major freedoms of the Bill of Rights, including speech, religion, press, right to bear arms, and assembly.

Recognize George Washington as the first president of the United States.

Explain how industry and agriculture expanded during the early twentieth century.

Describe how Alabamians contributed to the war effort during World War II.

Explain Alabama’s contributions to military production during World War II.

Locate military installations in Alabama during World War II on a map, including Redstone Arsenal, Camp Rucker (Fort Novosel), Fort McClellan, Craig Army Air Base, Brookley Field, Tuskegee Army Air Field, and major POW camps in Alabama.

Explain how women and Black Alabamians sought and received new employment opportunities during World War II that were not previously available.

Describe how the United States’ economy grew and American culture changed after World War II.

Identify Alabamians who contributed to the growth of American culture post-World War II into the 1970s.

Describe the decline of farming and the growth of urban areas in Alabama after World War II.

Outline key events and campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement and identify significant organizations and their contributions within the Movement.

Describe ways in which the Civil Rights Movement sought to create change.

Trace the chronology of civil rights events in Alabama and across the nation, and summarize how they impacted one another.

Describe the contributions of Alabama leaders and foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement as well as other Alabamian supporters who aided their efforts.

Summarize how opponents of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama sought to limit its success.

Identify Alabamians who contributed to concurrent civil rights movements in the United States during the decades following World War II.

Summarize why the United States sought to contain communism during the Cold War, and locate major communist countries from the Cold War era on a map.

Describe how the United States’ involvement in the Cold War influenced domestic and international events.

Explain reasons for the United States’ involvement in the Korean War and Vietnam War and describe the involvement of Alabamians in these conflicts.

Describe how technological innovations boosted space exploration during the Space Race, including the role of Redstone Arsenal and the Marshall Space Flight Center.

Trace the United States’ military involvement in international conflicts since 1980, including those following the September 11 attacks.

Research and report on Alabama’s economic contributions and participation in global markets from the mid-twentieth through twenty-first centuries.

State and defend a position regarding the benefits and drawbacks of technological advancements in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Identify political achievements and legislation nationally and within Alabama that have furthered the modern civil rights movement since 1970.

Summarize how important entrepreneurs and inventors shaped American society, and identify Alabamians who contributed to these innovations.

Describe the emergence of new forms of economic activity in Alabama at the turn of the twentieth century, including the iron, steel, textile, and timber industries.

Outline reasons for the growth of urban areas at the turn of the twentieth century, including Birmingham.

Describe Progressive Era political reforms in both the United States and Alabama.

Summarize how women in Alabama participated in the suffrage movement prior to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Describe how the Populist Movement influenced the creation of the 1901 Alabama Constitution and explain the effects of its adoption, including disenfranchisement of voters through literacy tests and poll taxes that affected both Black and white male small farmers and laborers.

Identify and describe examples of prison reform, including the abolition of the convict-lease system and leadership of Julia Tutwiler.

Describe Progressive Era social reforms in both the United States and Alabama.

Explain how legislation, individuals, and groups extended educational opportunities in Alabama.

Summarize the role of labor unions and reformers in changing laws governing working conditions.

Summarize Helen Keller’s life and her contributions to disability rights.

Analyze the reasons for increased immigration to, and migration within, the United States and Alabama in the early twentieth century.

Compare the experiences of immigrants who entered the United States through various ports of entry, including Ellis Island, Angel Island, and the southern border.

Identify the economic and social conditions that led to the start of the Great Migration.

Summarize the primary causes and consequences of World War I.

Identify and explain international events that led to the United States’ entry into World War I.

Identify the countries of the Triple Entente and Central Powers during World War I and locate them on a map.

Describe the roles and contributions of Alabamians, including the 167th Infantry Regiment (4th Alabama), to the war effort during World War I.

Locate Alabama military training camps, ammunition depots, and the Port of Mobile on a map and explain their role in World War I efforts.

Identify the contributions of Alabamians to sports, film, and the arts during the early twentieth century, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Jazz Age.

Explain how overcropping, the boll weevil, and low cotton prices affected farmers in Alabama.

Describe the economic developments in the United States during the Roaring Twenties that caused the 1929 stock market crash.

Explain how the Great Depression impacted Alabamians and the nation, including increased labor tensions.

Identify key characteristics of the Dust Bowl and the regions affected by it.

Analyze how the government-funded New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt impacted American society.

Identify the contributions of reformers during the New Deal, including Alabama political and civic leaders.

Identify and describe New Deal projects that helped bring relief to Alabama.

Describe the reasons for the United States’ entry into World War II and identify its contributions toward the defeat of the Axis powers.

Compare totalitarianism and democracy as represented in the Axis and Allied powers prior to war in Europe.

Explain the military contributions of Americans during World War II, including the achievements of the Tuskegee Airmen and Alabama Medal of Honor recipients

Explain the significance of major events in the war, including Pearl Harbor, internment of Japanese-Americans, D-Day, the Holocaust, Victory in Europe (VE) Day, the development and use of the atomic bomb, and Victory over Japan (VJ) Day.

Mid-Twentieth Century, International Effects of World War II

Mid-Twentieth Century, National Effects of World War II

Progressive Era and World War I

Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, and New Deal

1970s to Today

World War II