Maryland Social Studies Standards

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Grade 5, History

Indicator Statement:
Describe the major settlements of North America societies indigenous to North America

Objectives:

• Identify the early migratory patterns and settlements that existed in North America prior to contact with Europeans
• Describe the cultural characteristics of major North American Native societies, such as food, clothing, shelter, language, tools, transportation, religious beliefs, recreation and traditions

Indicator Statement:
Explain the significance and chronology of key historical events during the age of European exploration

Objectives:

• Identify the origin, destination and goals of the early explorers
• Identify the key events in European exploration and organize them in chronological order
• Explain the results of the interactions between European explorers and North American natives

Indicator Statement:
Analyze the growth and development of Colonial America using a variety of primary and secondary sources

Objectives:

• Describe the religious, political, and economic motives of individuals who migrated to North America and the difficulties they encountered
• Explain the consequences of migration to the colonies including the impact on North American native societies
• Analyze the impact of slavery on enslaved and free Africans and colonist in Colonial America
• Compare the daily life of people in New England, Mid-Atlantic and the Southern colonies using case studies

Indicator Statement:
Evaluate the causes of the American Revolution using a variety of primary and secondary resources

Objectives:

• Describe the different roles and viewpoints of individuals and groups, such as women, men, free and enslaved Africans, and Native Americans during the Revolutionary period
• Explain the viewpoints of Patriots and Loyalists about the changes in British colonial policy after the Seven Years' War using a variety of primary and secondary resources, such as the Proclamation of 1763, the Stamp Act, Common Sense, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers and political cartoons
• Identify and sequence key events that affected the relationship between the British and the colonist, and the Constitutional Convention

Indicator Statement:
Analyze the effects of the American Revolution using a variety of primary and secondary sources

Objectives:

• Describe how the revolution altered society such as abolition of slavery in the north, extension of women's rights, and development of more free black communities
• Describe how America's relationship with Europe changed such as competing international interests and goals