TEKS 5th Grade Social Studies: Units 7 to 12 SUPER BUNDLE!! (Google Apps!)

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Unit 7: Westward Migration: Expanding the United States (Manifest Destiny, Westward Expansion, Texas Revolution, Indian Removal Act, Oregon Trail, California Gold Rush, Mexican Cession, and more!!)

Unit 8: Civil War: Dividing and Rebuilding the Union (Rise of Sectionalism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction)

Unit 9: A New Century: Transitioning to a Modern America (Industrialization, Urbanization, and Immigration)

Unit 10: Challenging Times: Emerging as a World Power (WWI, Great Depression, the New Deal, Dust Bowl, and WWII)

Unit 11: An Anxious Nation: Creating a More Perfect Union (Cold War, Korean War, Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War, 9/11 & the War on Terror, and Election of 2008

Unit 12: The United States Today: Out of Many, One (U.S. landmarks and government symbols, our role as U.S. citizens in civic affairs, American customs, traditions, and diversity)

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• Unit Outline and Lesson-by-Lesson Overview for each Unit
• 70+ Presentations High-Quality and Immersive Presentations featuring built-in discussion-based questions (DBQ) in both PowerPoint (PPT) and Google Slides formats
• 140+ student exercise assignments in -both- PDF printable and Google Apps formats, and ALL come complete with a teacher answer key!
• 120+ links to supplemental and optional YouTube videos
• Guided Notes Handout for students to record their learnings as the class walks through each presentation, helping promote subject retention
• Unit Review Activities such as fun and interactive games like Jeopardy!
• Unit Assessments including teacher answer key and recommended grading scale and rubric!

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UNIT 7: Migration Westward: Expanding the United States (Manifest Destiny, Westward Expansion, Texas Revolution, Indian Removal Act, Oregon Trail, California Gold Rush, Mexican Cession, and more!!)

Intro to Westward Expansion:

• Meaning of Manifest Destiny
• Impact of Westward Expansion on Native Americans

Indian Removal Act & Trail of Tears:

• Significance of the Indian Removal Act
• Causes and Effects of the Indian Removal Act
• Role of Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren

Texas Revolution

• Importance of Texas land grants and empresarios
• Causes and effects of the Texas War for Independence
• Major battles such as the Battle of the Alamo and Battle of San Jacinto
• Why the U.S. initially rejected the annexation of Texas
• Role of important individuals such as Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston, and Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Mexican-American War

• Breakdown of the various causes of the Mexican-American War
• How Manifest Destiny played an important role
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Mexican Cession

Oregon Territory

• Significance of the Oregon Territory
• How the Oregon Territory played a significant role in the outcome of the presidential election of 1844
• Why the Oregon Territory was coveted by so many

The Oregon Trail

• Impact of the Oregon Trail
• Major landforms settlers encountered while on the Oregon Trail

California Gold Rush

• California boomtowns and population growth
• Role of "forty-niners"
• Travel to California
• Role of Levi Strauss
• Effects of the Gold Rush

Utah Territory & Mormon Migration

• The first Mormons
• Why they migrated to the Utah Territory
• Role of Brigham Young

UNIT 8: Civil War: Dividing and Rebuilding the Union (Issues of Sectionalism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction)

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 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

UNIT 9: A New Century: Transitioning to a Modern America (Industrialization, Urbanization, and Immigration)

Industrial Revolution Inventions & Technology

• Significance of famous inventors such as Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison
• How steel and oil played a role in transforming the American economy
• Impact of various inventions like the cotton gin, the incandescent light bulb, asphalt, spinning Jenny, steam engine, Bessemer process, and many more!!

Business Tycoons

• Contributions of Andrew Carnegie & John D. Rockefeller
• Role of monopolies

Immigration

• Why so many Europeans and Asians immigrated to America during the Industrial Revolution
• Impact of immigrants on American cities and the American economy
• Significance of Ellis Island and Angel Island

Statue of Liberty

• Why the Statue of Liberty is historically significant
• Construction of the Statue of Liberty

Urbanization

• Urban life in America during the late 1800s and early 1900s
• Role of tenements
• Analysis of the largest U.S. cities in 1900 & 1920

Working Conditions During the Industrial Revolution

• Vivid descriptions of workplace conditions and the struggles it presented to workers
• Significance of workplace accidents

Child Labor

• Role of child labor
• Jobs children often worked in, such as "newsies", among others
• Analysis of several of Lewis W. Hine's photographs of children working during the early 1900s

Rise of Labor Unions

• What a labor union is
• Role of labor unions during the Industrial Revolution and the role they play today
• Labor strikes and the importance of Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
• Dedication of Labor Day

Women of the Industrial Revolution

• Significance of women like Jane Addams, Mary Harris Jones, Florence Kelley, and Susan B. Anthony
• Accomplishments of these women from the Hull House, to helping end child labor, to women's suffrage, and the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

Unit 10: Challenging Times: Emerging as a World Power (WWI, Great Depression, the New Deal, Dust Bowl, and WWII)

World War One (WWI)

• Rise of European rivalries
• Formation of alliances like the Central Powers
• President Woodrow Wilson and the U.S. role in WWI
• Veterans Day
• Effects of WWI, such as the League of Nations

The Roaring 20s

• American life, culture, and society during the 1920s
• Role of new forms of entertainment like the radio
• Harlem Renaissance
• 18th Amendment: Prohibition (and the rise of organized crime leader Al Capone)

Great Depression

• Factors that led to the Great Depression, such as high unemployment and the stock market crash
• Life during the Great Depression
• "Hoovervilles": what they were and why they were called that
• Election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932

The New Deal

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New deal goals
• Significance of New Deal programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Social Security Act
• 21st Amendment: Repeal of Prohibition

The Dust Bowl

• Causes and effects of the Dust Bowl
• A thorough breakdown of the various factors that contributed to the conditions that led to the Dust Bowl

Important World Leaders during World War Two (WWII)

• Role of dictatorships and dictators like Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin
• Historical Significance of American leaders such as President Franklin Roosevelt, President Harry Truman, and General Dwight Eisenhower

World War Two (WWII) Alliances

• The Allies (Britain, France, Poland, the Soviet Union, and the United States)
• Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Why Pearl Harbor was targeted and attacked by Japan
• Significance of the USS Arizona
• The importance of President Franklin Roosevelt's address to the nation after the attack "a date which will live in infamy"
• Dedication of Labor Day

D-Day

• Effects of D-Day
• Breakdown of the Allied strategy and how the Allies won on D-Day
• Why D-Day was crucial
• Geography of D-Day

World War Two (WWII) in Europe

• Allied advance of Europe towards Germany
• Who and why certain individuals were sent to Nazi concentration camps
• Significance of the Holocaust and its impact on Jews
• Nazi propaganda
• Deaths of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
• The Nuremberg Trials

World War Two (WWII) in the Pacific

• Empire of Japan
• Battle of Midway and Battle of Iwo Jima
• Importance of the atomic bomb
• Surrender of Japan

Effects of World War Two (WWII)

• Overview of various interesting facts about WW2
• Introduction of weapons of mass destruction (atomic bomb)
• The emergence of two superpowers (Soviet Union and the U.S.)
• Communism vs. Democracy (birth of the Cold War)
• Split of Germany and its capital Berlin into East and West
• Establishment of the United Nations (U.N.)

Unit 11: An Anxious Nation: Creating a More Perfect Union (Cold War, Korean War, Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War, 9/11 & the War on Terror, and Election of 2008

The Cold War

• Causes and Effects of the Cold War
• Role of Communism
• The "Iron Curtain"
• U.S.-Soviet Relations during the Cold War
• Significance of important Cold War landmarks such as the Berlin Wall
• Key individuals during the Cold War, such as Presidents John F. Kennedy & Ronald Reagan, as well as Soviet leaders Joseph Stalin and Mikhail Gorbachev

The Civil Rights Movement

• Equal Rights for Minority Groups and Women
• Factors that contributed to the Civil Rights Movement
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Role of individuals like Rosa Parks, Sandra Day O' Connor, and Cesar Chavez, among many others
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Voting Rights Act of 1965

Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK)

• Factors that influenced Martin Luther King Jr.'s beliefs and values
• MLK's role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Letter from Birmingham Jail
• The historical significance of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech
• The enduring legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day (MLK Day)

The Korean War

• What caused the Korean War and why the Korean War is significant
• U.S. role in the Korean War
• Effects of the Korean War that persist to this day

U.S.-Soviet Arms Race

• Impact of the Hydrogen bomb
• U.S. Arms Race strategy
• Rise of Fallout Shelters

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Significance of Cuba's geography
• What led to the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Roles of the U.S., Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and the Soviet Union
• Election of President Kennedy and his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis
• How the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved

The Space Race

• Importance and historical significance of the U.S.-Soviet Space Race
• Impact of Sputnik
• The U.S. Space Program (NASA)
• First Moon Landing

Vietnam War

• Geography of Vietnam
• What caused the Vietnam War
• U.S. Involvement in Vietnam
• Role of the Draft Lottery
• Guerrilla Warfare
• President Johnson's and President Nixon's roles during the Vietnam War
• Effects of the Vietnam War
• The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial

First Persian Gulf War (1991)

• Factors that led to Operation Desert Storm
• Role of important individuals such as President George Bush, Colin Powell, and Saddam Hussein

September 11, 2001 (9/11)

• The historical significance of September 11, 2001
• Sequential breakdown of the events that occurred on September 11, 2001
• Why U.S. air space was shut down
• President George W. Bush's response to the attacks of 9/11
• The heroism of 9/11 rescue workers

War on Terror

• Why the U.S. entered Afghanistan
• U.S. Patriotism
• Role of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda
• The significance of individuals like Osama bin Laden
• Axis of Evil

Second Persian Gulf War (2003)

• Factors that led to Operation Iraqi Freedom
• The downfall and capture of Saddam Hussein
• Ensuing unrest in Iraq

A New Era

• The historical significance of various U.S. government leaders like Barack Obama, Madeleine Albright, and Hillary Clinton, among others
• Presidential Election of 2008
• Analysis of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election results
• How Kamala Harris became the first female and the first person of African American and Asian American descent to become the first Vice President of the United States

Unit 12: The United States Today: Out of Many, One (U.S. landmarks and government symbols, our role as U.S. citizens in civic affairs, American customs, traditions, and diversity)

Our Civic Duties & Responsibilities as U.S. Citizens

• Importance of participating in civic affairs (civic engagement)
• How civic duties and responsibilities differ from one another
• Examples of our civic duties and responsibilities, such as obeying the law and voting
• How to contact your elected representatives in state and federal government

American Culture

• Characteristics that define a culture, such as beliefs and values, the arts, as well as customs and rituals, among others
• The many contributions on American culture, from Asian and African influences to Native American, Latin American, and European influences

U.S. Landmarks

• Definition and traits of a landmark
• Famous American landmarks in the eastern U.S., central U.S., and western U.S.
• Significance of American landmarks such as Mount Rushmore, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Empire State Building, the U.S. Capitol, and many more!!

American Symbols

• Prominent American symbols from U.S. culture, society, government, and politics
• Why the donkey and elephant are symbols of the Democratic and Republican Parties
• How the bald eagle became our national bird and emblem of the U.S.

Leadership & Leadership Traits

• Breakdown of important leadership traits like honesty, dedication, humility, and courage, among others
• Examination of how certain leadership traits contributed to the rise of historically significant American leaders from the past, such as Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass, to current leaders, such as Nancy Pelosi and Jeff Bezos

American Spirit of Opportunity

• Meaning and analysis of the phrase "American Spirit of Opportunity"
• How we exemplify American Spirit and appreciate the Opportunity our democracy affords us as U.S. citizens

Here are the TEKS Standards that these incredible resources cover:

5.4C, 5.4D, 5.4E, 5.4G, 5.5A, 5.5B, 5.5C, 5.6A, 5.8A, 5.8B, 5.8C, 5.9A, 5.9B, 5.9N, 5.11B, 5.11C, 5.12A, 5.12B, 5.13A, 5.13B, 5.13C, 5.13D, 5.13E, 5.17A, 5.17D, 5.17E, 5.18A, 5.18B, 5.19B, 5.19C, 5.20B, 5.21B, 5.22A, 5.22B, 5.22C, 5.23A, 5.23B, 5.23C, 5.23D, 5.24B, 5.24C, 5.24D, 5.25B, 5.25D, 5.25E

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