Alabama Academic Standards
for
Social Studies
Grade 5
Map and
Globe Skills |
Students will
- Extend the development of map and globe skills.
- Features: Locate major geographic features associated with the study of America's history.
- Examples: ocean currents, prevailing winds, large forests, major rivers, significant mountain ranges
- Relative Location: Use cardinal and intermediate directions to describe the relative location of selected places in North America.
- Examples: Maine in the northeastern United States, Mexico to the south of the United States, the Atlantic Ocean on the eastern border of Georgia
- Absolute Location: Use a grid system to describe the absolute location of selected places encountered during the study of America's history.
- Latitude and longitude
- Example: comparing climates of places in America with countries of the origin of early settlers
- Equator
- Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn
- Arctic and Antarctic Circles
- Prime Meridian, International Date Line relative to North America and the world
- Directions: Extend orientation skills by following and giving specific cardinal directions and verbal instructions.
- Example: describing proposed trade and exploration routes through the eyes of the explorers
- Scale: Compare differences found on a variety of scales.
- Example: comparing a local area map with a map of a larger area such as Jamestown with the 13 colonies or with the North American continent
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Alabama Academic Standards
for
Social Studies
Grade 5
Information
Literacy |
Students will
- Read, interpret, and organize information using a variety of sources and tools.
- Charts
- Globes
- Graphs
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Time lines
- Tables
- Apply reference skills in independent investigations of selected topics.
- Atlases
- Electronic resources
- Example: accessing information on the Internet
- Dictionaries
- Reference books
- Media centers
- Newspapers
- Databases
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Alabama Academic Standards
for
Social Studies
Grade 5
Beginnings:
Prehistoric
Settlements
and
Native
American
Life |
Students will
- Describe the natural environment of North America.
- River systems
- Physical geography
- Land forms
- Natural regions
- Native wildlife and vegetation
- Natural resources
- Explain the causes and effects of migration and settlement in prehistoric America.
- Examples: land bridge, diffusion of Indian culture
- Discuss the progression of culture of the early American people.
- Big game hunters
- Hunters - Gatherers
- Farmers
- Analyze the different cultures of Native American groups by geographic regions.
- Impact of the environment
- Examples: natural resources, society
- Conflict and cooperation
- Examples: cultural differences, hunting rights, Women in American Indian Society by Rayna Green
- Government
- Examples: intra-tribal, inter-tribal, The Native Americans - An Illustrated History by Michael Regan
- Economy
- Examples: occupations, trading patterns, tools, weapons
- Religion
- Examples: legends, The Women Who Fell From the Sky: The Iroquois' Story by John Bierhorst
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Alabama Academic Standards
for
Social Studies
Grade 5
European
Exploration
and
Early
Settlement:
1400s - 1600s |
Students will
- Assess the impact of the Age of Discovery upon European society.
- European exploration
- Examples: Marco Polo, Prince Henry, Prince Henry the Navigator by Leonard Fischer, Bartolomew Dias, Vasco da Gama
- Earliest explorers of North America
- Examples: Leif Ericson - "Leif the Lucky", Leif Ericson and the Vikings by Charnan Simon, Christopher Columbus,Where Are You Going Christopher Columbus? by Jean Fritz, The Discovery of the Americas by Maestro
- Spanish exploration and settlement of North America
- Examples: Balboa, Magellan, Ponce de Leon, de Soto, Coronado, Cortés, Pizzarro, Father Serra and the California Missions
- French exploration and settlement of North America
- Examples: Cartier, Champlain, Marquette, Joliet, LaSalle, fur trading posts
- Describe the impact of the early European exploration and settlement on Native American cultures.
- Cultural significance
- Examples: new foods, religion, breakup of families, languages, diseases, medicines, clothing
- Conflict and cooperation
- Examples: weapons, trade items, shelters, "Columbian Exchange"
- Analyze the English settlement of North America.
- Reasons
- Examples: religious freedom, trade and profit, adventure
- Success of settlements
- Examples: economic, political, social
- Interaction with native Americans
- Examples: crops, trade, land use
- Interaction among colonies
- Examples: religion, land, trade, boundaries
- Interaction with other nations
- Examples: land, hunting rights
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Alabama Academic Standards
for
Social Studies
Grade 5
English
Colonization:
1600s-1763 |
Students will
- Explain the significance of Jamestown as the first permanent settlement.
- Leadership
- Examples: John Smith, John Rolfe, Lord De La Ware
- Native American relationships
- Examples: Powhatan, Pocahontas
- Economics
- Examples: cash crop (tobacco), plantation system, indentured servants, African slaves
- Government
- Example: House of Burgesses
- Society
- Examples: "starving time," families, A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla
- Explain the causes and effects of the French and Indian War.
- Geographic
- Political
- Cultural
- Describe the location and natural environment of the three primary groups—Northern, Middle, Southern—of English colonies.
- Climate
- Examples: crops, health, housing styles
- Land
- Example: mountain ranges as barrier to migration
- River systems
- Examples: fall line, development of cities
- Forests
- Examples: shipbuilding, housing
- Demonstrate an understanding of representative government in Colonial America.
- Example: Massachusetts town meetings
- Explore the social changes that led to the Protestant Reformation.
- Examples: ethical values, laws, "established church" (Church of England)
- Investigate the role of law in Colonial America by translating and interpreting primary and secondary sources.
- Examples: The Mayflower Compact, The Mayflower Compact: Documents of Freedom by Fran L. Dorovan, English common law
- Discuss colonial trade routes and their impact on society.
- Triangular Trade (slave trade
- Example: The First Passage: Blacks in the Americas 1502 - 1617 by Colin Palmer
- Cotton/indigo trade in the southern colonies
- Discuss the emergence of the American culture during colonization.
- Daily life
- Examples: Noah Webster and the English language, types of work, use of land, leisure activities, Race, Class, and Politics: Essays on American Colonial and Revolutionary Society by Gary Nash, Colonial Life by Bobbie Kalmah
- Religious influences
- Examples: Protestants, Puritans, Quakers, Anglicans, Catholics, The Great Awakening by George Whitefield, "Peaceable Kingdom" by Edward Hicks, Jonathan Edward's sermon "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God"
- Describe the culture of the African slaves in Colonial America.
- Examples: food, clothing, shelter, roles as workers, recreation, education, Ancient Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Voices in African American History, Modern Curriculum Press, The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Ann Cameron
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Alabama Academic Standards
for
Social Studies
Grade 5
Gaining
Independence:
1763-1783 |
Students will
- Explore the social factors and events leading up to the American Revolution.
- French and Indian War
- Examples: land, taxation, relationship with Indians, relationship with France
- British actions
- Examples: Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Writs of Assistance, Intolerable Acts
- Colonial reactions
- Examples: Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, boycotts, smuggling
- Describe efforts of groups in the American colonies to mobilize support for independence from England.
- Examples: Minutemen, Committee of Correspondence, Sons of Liberty, First Continental Congress, "The Ride of Paul Revere" by Henry W. Longfellow
- Describe the political and social differences among colonists in America.
- Summarize major points in the Declaration of Independence.
- Purpose
- Explanation
- Grievances against King George III
- Analyze the importance of selected writings related to American independence.
- Examples: Common Sense by Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry's "The Call to Arms" (Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech)
- Explain the important people and events of the American Revolution.
- Battles
- Lexington-Concord
- Bunker Hill/Breed's Hill
- Example: music - "Yankee Doodle"
- Saratoga
- Yorktown
- Issues
- Results
- Personalities
- John Paul Jones
- Nathan Hale
- George Washington
- Example: art - "Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Gilbert Stuart
- Benedict Arnold
- Francis Marion "Swamp Fox"
- Cornwallis
- Home front
- Women
- Examples: Molly Pitcher, Sybil Ludington, Deborah Sampson, Betsy Ross
- Blacks
- Examples: Crispus Attucks, Salem Poor, Peter Salem
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Alabama Academic Standards
for
Social Studies
Grade 5
The
Forming
and
Growth
of a
Nation:
1776-1859 |
Students will
- Summarize the contributions of significant individuals to the establishment of the United States of America.
- Identify the reasons for the failure of the Articles of Confederation.
- Examples: individual currencies, unwillingness to help the Continental Army, inability to tax
- Discuss the major aspects of the Constitutional Convention.
- Major personalities and their roles
- Key issues
- Examples: Great Compromise, Three-Fifths Compromise
- Results
- Explain major concepts of the United States Constitution.
- Three branches of government
- Relationship between government and people
- Separation of powers
- Example: function and levels of government
- Democratic republic
- Checks and balances
- Example: We the People by Center for Civic Education
- Distinguish among local, state, and national governments and identify representative leaders at these levels.
- Relate the significance of personal freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights to the daily lives of citizens.
- Examples: religious freedom, free speech, right to due process, trial by jury
- Explain the impact of the War of 1812 on American culture.
- Burning of Washington, D.C.
- Examples: Dolly Madison, Jefferson's contribution to the Library of Congress
- "War Hawks"
- "Star Spangled Banner"
- Example: Star Spangled Banner: Our Nation and Its Flag by Margaret Jeden
- Battle of Horseshoe Bend
- Battle of New Orleans
- Example: "Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton
- Understand the importance of the Monroe Doctrine.
- Describe the exploration of the frontier from the 1750s through the early 1800s.
- Identify geographic changes and acquisitions of the United States.
- Discuss migration and trade patterns of Westward Expansion before the Civil War.
- Analyze the impact of technological changes on life in America from 1800 to 1860.
- Analyze sectionalism in America during the first half of the nineteenth century.
- Slavery
- States' rights
- Personalities
- Examples: John C. Calhoun, Robert Brooks, John Brown
- Economic differences
- Examples: King Cotton versus factories
- Geographic influences
- Examples: rural, industrial, plantations
- Examine major struggles within the nation and the resulting compromises.
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Alabama Academic Standards
for
Social Studies
Grade 5
Civil War
and
Reconstruction:
1860-1877 |
Students will
- Identify and discuss some American activists before the Civil War.
- Examples: The Liberator by William Lloyd Garrison, Elizabeth Caty Stanton, Harriet Tubman, Harriet B. Stowe, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Sojourner Truth, Horace Mann, Dorthea Dix
- Discuss how the campaign issues and results of the election of 1860 affected American society.
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- Slavery
- States' rights
- Lincoln's Inaugural Address
- Explain the causes of the Civil War.
- Northern view
- Southern view
- Examples: political, social, economic, Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
- Examine the Anaconda Plan and its social and economic implications on the South.
- Assess significant features of the Civil War.
- Battles and their social impact
- Example: Civil War photographs by Matthew Brady
- Fort Sumpter
- Bull Run
- Antietam Creek
- Vicksburg
- Gettysburg
- Mobile Bay
- Sherman's March
- Richmond
- Appomattox
- Leaders
- Robert E. Lee
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Gettysburg Address
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Home front
- Examples: bread riots, hospitals, Clara Barton, spies
- Analyze the social, political, and economic aspects of Reconstruction.
- Lincoln's assassination
- Example: "Oh Captain! My Captain" by Walt Whitman
- Political and social rights for ex-slaves
- Examples: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
- Carpetbaggers and scalawags
- Election of Ulysses S. Grant
- Rising anti-Black sentiment
- Example: emergence of white resistance groups, sharecroppers, tenant farmers
- Explore the lasting cultural influences of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
- Literature
- Architecture
- Songs
- Food
- Social structure
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Alabama Academic Standards
for
Social Studies
Grade 5
Western
Expansion/
Transition:
1900 |
Students will
- Explain the impetus for movement to the frontier during the nineteenth century.
- Economic
- Examples: fur trade, China trade, silver
- Geographic
- Examples: rich land, fisheries, minerals
- Political
- Examples: slavery, Manifest Destiny, Homestead Act
- Social/Cultural
- Examples: adventure, misplaced soldiers, displaced Blacks
- Explain the interaction of man with the natural environment that occurred during the exploration and settlement of the frontier in America.
- Hazards
- Examples: storms, droughts, floods
- Methods of travel
- Examples: wagon, boat, railroad
- Describe the major groups and selected individuals involved in westward expansion.
- Settlers
- Examples: Donner family, Brigham Young, the Whitmans
- Native Americans
- Example: the art of Frederick Remington
- Ranchers
- Miners
- Examples: in California, in Nevada, in Alaska
- Explorers
- Analyze the conflicts and cooperation between groups of people in the western U.S. in the mid-to-late 1800s.
- Examples: miners, cattle ranchers, sheep herders, immigrants working on railroads, soldiers, outlaws
- Discuss the impact of the railroads on the development of the West.
- Political
- Examples: tycoons, loss of Indian lands
- Economic
- Examples: monopolies, trade with the East, labor
- Social/Cultural
- Examples: buffalo annihilation, transportation
- Discuss the impact of closing the frontier on Native American culture.
- Changed way of life
- Armed conflicts
- Examples: Wounded Knee, Custer's Last Stand, Geronimo, "I Will Fight No More Forever" by Chief Joseph
- Describe features of the Spanish-American War.
- Causes
- Examples: "Remember the Maine," yellow journalism, desire for global influence
- Heroes
- Examples: Teddy Roosevelt, Fighting Joe Wheeler, Jack Pershing, Admiral Dewey, 9th and 10th Cavalry
- Consequences
- Examples: territorial acquisition, emergence of U.S. as major world power
- Describe major changes in America from 1870 to 1900.
- Industrialization
- Examples: labor, railroads, monopolies and mergers, "robber barons", Horatio Alger, Rockefeller, Carnegie
- Urbanization
- Examples: immigration, "The Melting Pot," How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis, Jane Addams
- Cultural changes
- Examples: women's suffrage movement, expanding educational system, emerging writers and artists, establishment of unions, Tuskegee Institute and Booker T. Washington
- Communication and technology
- Examples: Pony Express, Samuel F. B. Morse, Bell and the telephone, Trans-Atlantic cable
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