Module 10: Rebuilding a Nation (1850-1900)-Social Studies 5 - Course Guide


Module Overview:


Module Materials:

  • Pencils
  • Crayons or colored pencils
  • Notebook
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Highlighter
  • Markers
  • Blank paper

Module Objectives:

Lesson # Lesson Title Objective(s)
1 America in 1850
  1. Identify the locations and major geographical features of the states that existed as of 1850.
2 Slavery Divides a Nation
  1. Explain the central role of the expansion of slavery in causing sectionalism in the pre-Civil War United States.
  2. Identify the states that allowed slavery and those that didn't in the United States as of 1850.
3 Unrest Grows
  1. Explain the significance of events that led to the American Civil War.
  2. Explain the cause-and-effect relationships between events that led to the American Civil War.
4 A Country at War
  1. Map the major battles of the American Civil War.
  2. Identify the events and outcomes of major battles of the Civil War.
5 Life During the Civil War
  1. Identify the roles played by the key figures in the Civil War.
  2. Infer how scientific discoveries and technological innovations impacted life during the Civil War.
  3. Design a plan for a museum exhibit about the American Civil War.
6 Reconstruction
  1. Connect the outcome of the Civil War to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
7 The Golden Age of Invention (1870-1900)
  1. Identify the accomplishments of inventors of the late 1800s.
  2. Investigate how inventions of the late 1800s changed the lives of Americans.
8 More People Come to America
  1. Analyze the effects of immigration and migration on the United States in the late 1800s.
9 Changes in Industry and Business
  1. Describe the impact of the free enterprise system, mass production, and specialization on the American economy of the late 1800s.
10 More States Join the Union
  1. Identify (on a map) the states that joined the United States between 1863 and 1900.
  2. Infer how the continued expansion of the United States impacted Indigenous peoples.

Module Key Words:

Key Words
United States
geography
abolition
slavery
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Abraham Lincoln
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Pottawatomie Massacre
John Brown's Raid
secession
Confederate States of America
Confederacy
Union
Civil War
Clara Barton
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Reconstruction
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
suffrage
George Washington Carver
Alexander Graham Bell
Golden Age of Invention
Ellis Island
immigration
Gilded Age
New South
big business
Transcontinental Railroad
Western Expansion
Chief Joseph
Brigham Young

Module Assignments:

Lesson # Lesson Title Page # Assignment Title
1 America in 1850 4 1850s Geographical Features Worksheet
2 Slavery Divides a Nation 4 Free and Slaveholding States in 1850 Worksheet
3 Unrest Grows 6 Cause/Effect Paragraph Assignment
4 A Country at War 4 Map It Out Worksheet
5 Life During the Civil War 5 Civil War Museum Assignment
7 The Golden Age of Invention (1870-1900) 5 Invention Paragraph Assignment
8 More People Come to America 5 Cause and Effect Worksheet
10 More States Join the Union 5 Growth by Color Worksheet


Learning Coach Notes:

None

Module Guiding Questions:

When a student starts a lesson ask them questions to check for prior knowledge and understanding and to review concepts being taught. At the end of the lesson ask the questions again to see if their answer changes.

Lesson Title Question

Module Video Questions:

When a student watches a video take time to ask them questions about what they watched. Suggested questions for the videos in this module are listed here. Suggestion: Have the student watch the entire video first all the way through. Then have them watch the video a second time, as they watch it pause the video and ask the questions.

Lesson Title Video Question

Module Suggested Read Aloud Books:

Take time to read to your student or have them read aloud to you. Read a different book each day. While reading the book point out concepts being taught. You may purchase these books or find them at your local library. Suggested things to discuss while reading the book:

  • What is the main idea?
  • What are three things new you learned?
  • How does this book relate to what you are learning about?

# Book Author Lexile Level


Module Outing:

Take some time to apply what your student is learning to the real world. Suggested outings are below.

# Outing