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5th grade · Social Studies · Unit 10 of 13

America in the 20th & 21st Centuries

World wars, civil rights and the space age

What your child practices

Industrialization and urbanization, the world wars, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, September 11 and the 2008 election, and the people and inventors the Texas standards name, from Susan B. Anthony and the Tuskegee Airmen to the Wright brothers and Neil Armstrong.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 5.5(A); 5.5(B); 5.5(C); 5.22(A); 5.22(C) · events and people of the 20th and 21st centuries, and notable scientists and inventors

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Inventors like Alexander Graham Bell (telephone) changed daily life.
  2. Susan B. Anthony worked for women's right to vote. The New Deal fought the Great Depression.
  3. In World War II, the 442nd was mostly Japanese American soldiers. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination.

Example: What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do? It was a law to make treatment fair. It banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Answer: outlawed discrimination

America in the 20th & 21st Centuries in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 10 of 13 in 5th grade Social Studies, after Civil War & Reconstruction and before Symbols, Rights & Citizens.

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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs to fight the Great Depression were called the…

    • Fair Deal
    • New Deal
    • Square Deal
    • Great Society

  2. Question 2

    After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States began the…

    • Civil War
    • War of 1812
    • Cold War
    • War on Terror

  3. Question 3

    Neil Armstrong was the first person to…

    • walk on the Moon
    • orbit Earth
    • fly an airplane
    • reach the South Pole

  4. Question 4

    The United States entered World War II after the attack on…

    • Fort Sumter
    • the Alamo
    • Fort McHenry
    • Pearl Harbor

  5. Question 5

    The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was made up mostly of…

    • Japanese American soldiers
    • British pilots
    • Texas Rangers
    • Navy sailors

  6. Question 6

    How did vaccines such as the polio vaccine benefit society?

    • fewer people got seriously ill
    • more people got sick
    • doctors were not needed
    • hospitals closed

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