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5th Grade Social Studies
Unit 1-Studying History
What is History?
How do historians study the past?
Unit 2-Three Worlds Meet
How were the worlds of America, Africa, and Europe alike and different?
How and why did the three worlds meet?
How did Europeans, American Indians, and Africans view the meeting of their three worlds?
Unit 3-Colonization and Settlement
How did the push and pull factors of migration influence the settlement of different colonial regions in North America?
How did the geography of North America affect settlement patterns and the economic, political, and cultural development of different colonial regions?
How did cultural differences and similarities between Europeans and American Indians influence their interactions?
Unit 4-Life in the Colonies
How did economic activities contribute to the significant differences among the colonial regions?
How did colonial political experiences influence how colonists viewed their rights and responsibilities?
How did the institution of slavery affect colonial development and life in the colonies?
Unit 5-Road to Revolution
How did economic issues and political experiences and ideas affect the relationship between Great Britain and the colonies?
Why were some colonists unhappy with British rule after the French and Indian War?
How and why did people in different colonial regions unite against Great Britain?
Unit 6-The American Revolution
How did the colonists justify their right to rebel?
In what ways was the American Revolution a war of ideas?
How did people influence the course of the war?
Unit 7-A New Nation
How effectively did the Framers of the Constitution resolve the problems the nation encountered under the Articles of Confederation?
What role did compromise play in constructing the Constitution?
How did the Framers address the issues of governmental power and individual rights?
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