Social Studies Curriculum

5th Grade

Course Purpose:

 Students will analyze the historical relationship between the United States and other nations.

Outcomes and Components:

SS.5.2 Students will analyze the probable causes and effects of the Civil War by differentiating the geographical, environmental, cultural, and technological characteristics of the Northern and Southern United States.

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Standard(s)
  SS.5.2.1 Use print and digital maps of different scales to describe the locations of cultural and environmental characteristics. SS.5.G.1
  SS.5.2.2 Investigate and explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of places within the United States change over time. SS.5.G.2
  SS.5.2.3 Construct an explanation and claim for  the probable causes and effects of the Civil War using reasoning, examples, and details from multiple sources.

SS.5.H.3

SS.3-5.IS.6

Academic Vocabulary: Cause, Effect, Results, Predict, Analyze, Construct, Describe

Content Vocabulary: Culture, Economy, Government, Agriculture,Manufactiuring, Industry, Abolitionist, Slavery, States’ Rights, Union, Confederacy, Disunion, Urban, Rural, Secession