5th Grade Social Studies TEKS Unit 8: Sectionalism, Civil War, & Reconstruction

The 5th Grade Social Studies TEKS Unit 8: Sectionalism, Civil War, & Reconstruction COMPLETE Lesson Plan Unit is excellent for those teaching 5th grade social studies to their students. The resources included in this lesson plan unit follow the TEKS standards and come ready to use for BOTH in-person and online digital classroom learning (via Google Apps)!

This incredible unit comes loaded with amazing resources guaranteed to save you HOURS of time, and teach your students all about these three important topics:

• Issues of Sectionalism
• The Civil War
• The Reconstruction Era

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Here's what you'll receive:

• Unit Outline and Lesson-by-Lesson Overview
• 17 highly curated presentations featuring built-in Discussion Based Questions (DBQ) in both PowerPoint (PPT) & Google Slides formats
• 40 student exercise assignments, including a team project (ALL with teacher answer key)
• 28 links to supplemental and optional videos on YouTube
• Guided Notes Handouts for students for every lesson
• Jeopardy Unit Review Game
• Unit Assessment with teacher answer key

**This unit has been specifically designed and curated following 5th Grade Social Studies TEKS standards and guidelines**

EVERY lesson comes complete with ALL of the resources you'll need. You'll have no problem whatsoever teaching your 5th graders all about these important topics:

The Evils of Slavery:

• Historical overview of slavery in the U.S./13 Colonies
• Impact of the Cotton Gin on the South and slavery

Abolitionist:

• What is an abolitionist?
• Famous abolitionists: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Role of Uncle Tom's Cabin in changing America's attitude towards slavery

Underground Railroad

• Significance of the Underground Railroad
• Importance of Harriet Tubman
• Challenges of escaping slavery and using the Underground Railroad

Sectionalism

• Preserving the balance of free and slave states
• Significance of the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott Decision

Election of 1860

• Presidential candidates of the election
• How the South reacted to the election outcome

The Confederacy

• Characteristics of the Confederate states
• Capital of the Confederacy
• Roles of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee

Civil War

• Confederate attack on Fort Sumter
• Civil War transportation and regiments
• Battle of Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address
• Election of 1864
• Significance of Ulysses S. Grant
• Appomattox Courthouse

Emancipation Proclamation

• What the Emancipation was
• How and why it was an important symbolic measure

Transcontinental Railroad

• Pacific Railroad Act and its significance
• Workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad

Reconstruction

• Differing American perspectives on how to rebuild the South
• The Reconstruction Amendments
• Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Role of Radical Republicans
• Effects of Reconstruction

The TEKS Standards that this unit covers are:

5.4E, 5.9A, 5.19B, 5.19C, 5.20B, 5.21A, 5.21B, 5.23B, 5.24A, 5.24B, 5.24D, 5.25D, 5.25E

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