🌎 5th grade Social Studies

Units

1. Unit 1

   🏭Industry & Inventors

   How industry and farming grew in the early 1900s: Birmingham's iron and steel, textiles and timber, growing cities, and inventors and entrepreneurs, including Alabamians George Washington Carver and Mary Anderson.

   Content standard: 5.1 · the growth of industry and agriculture in the early twentieth century, inventors and entrepreneurs, and the growth of cities such as Birmingham

2. Unit 2

   🗳️The Progressive Era

   Progressive Era reforms in Alabama and the nation: women's suffrage, the 1901 Constitution and the poll taxes and literacy tests it used to take away votes, prison, school and labor reform, Helen Keller, and immigration and the Great Migration.

   Content standard: 5.2; 5.3; 5.4 · Progressive Era political and social reforms in Alabama and the US, Helen Keller, and immigration and the Great Migration

3. Unit 3

   🎖️World War I

   Why the United States entered World War I, the Allies and Central Powers, and how Alabamians served, from the 167th Infantry and James Reese Europe to training camps and the Port of Mobile.

   Content standard: 5.5 · the causes and consequences of World War I, the alliances, and Alabama's contributions to the war effort

4. Unit 4

   📉Boom, Bust & the New Deal

   Alabamians in the arts and sports of the 1920s, the boll weevil and low cotton prices, the 1929 crash and the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and New Deal programs and leaders, including the TVA and the CCC in Alabama.

   Content standard: 5.6; 5.7; 5.8 · the 1920s, the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, and New Deal programs and reformers in Alabama and the nation

5. Unit 5

   ✈️World War II

   Why the United States entered World War II, democracy and totalitarianism, major events from Pearl Harbor to VJ Day (including the Holocaust and the internment of Japanese Americans), the Tuskegee Airmen and other units, and Alabama's bases, factories and workers.

   Content standard: 5.9; 5.10 · US entry into World War II and major events of the war, Americans' military contributions, and Alabama's contributions at home

6. Unit 6

   ✊The Civil Rights Movement

   Key events, methods, leaders and foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama and the nation, from Brown v. Board and the Montgomery Bus Boycott to Birmingham 1963 and the Selma to Montgomery march, and how opponents tried to stop it. Told plainly.

   Content standard: 5.12 · key events, organizations, methods and leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama and the nation, and its opponents

7. Unit 7

   🚀The Cold War & the Rocket City

   Why the United States worked to contain communism, the Korean and Vietnam Wars and Alabamians in them, and the Space Race, with Redstone Arsenal and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.

   Content standard: 5.13; 5.14 · the Cold War and containment, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and the Space Race in Huntsville

8. Unit 8

   🌐Modern Alabama

   Life after World War II and Alabamians who shaped American culture, conflicts since 1990, Alabama's changing economy and world trade, the benefits and drawbacks of new technology, and civil rights milestones since 1970.

   Content standard: 5.11; 5.15; 5.16; 5.17; 5.18 · postwar America and Alabama, US conflicts since 1980, Alabama's role in global markets, technology, and civil rights achievements since 1970

9. Unit 9

   🗓️Twentieth Century Timeline

   Putting events from 1900 to today in order, from the 1901 Constitution and the world wars to the Civil Rights Movement, the Space Race and the twenty-first century.

   Content standard: 5.12; 5.14; 5.9 · the order of key events in Alabama and US history from 1900 to today