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5th grade · Social Studies · Unit 6 of 10

Factories & Reformers

Inventions, immigrants and reform

What your child practices

The Industrial Revolution in the North, canals, roads and railroads, immigration, public schools, and the abolition and women's rights movements before 1861.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 5.E4.2; 5.H4.1 · new industries and inventions, and the reform movements they led to

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. The Industrial Revolution brought machines and factories. Interchangeable parts made manufacturing faster.
  2. The Lowell mills hired young women from farms. Immigrants filled many factory jobs.
  3. Reformers: abolitionists worked to end slavery; Seneca Falls (1848) was for women's rights; Horace Mann pushed for public schools.

Example: What was the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 about? It produced a Declaration of Sentiments. It said women should have equal rights. Answer: women's rights

Factories & Reformers in Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 6 of 10 in 5th grade Social Studies, after A New Nation and before The Civil War.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Arizona Department of Education

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 called for…

    • closing factories
    • ending all schools
    • a new king
    • equal rights for women, including the vote

  2. Question 2

    Sojourner Truth was…

    • A railroad builder
    • A Confederate spy
    • A Supreme Court justice
    • A formerly enslaved woman who spoke for abolition and women's rights

  3. Question 3

    Horace Mann worked to reform…

    • Public schools
    • Railroads
    • Prisons in Europe
    • The army

  4. Question 4

    Steamboats changed river travel by…

    • Stopping all river travel
    • Making rivers flow backward
    • Replacing roads
    • Letting boats travel upstream easily

  5. Question 5

    Dorothea Dix worked to improve care for…

    • Soldiers' horses
    • Ships
    • Factory owners
    • People with mental illness and prisoners

  6. Question 6

    Harriet Tubman is known for…

    • Inventing the telegraph
    • Escaping slavery and guiding many others to freedom on the Underground Railroad
    • Leading the Trail of Tears
    • Writing the Constitution

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