Social Studies Unit 3:

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Social StudiesUnit 3 Big Business and Big
Cities

• Jeff Davis Elementary School
• Fifth Grade

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5th Grade Social Studies Standards

• SS5H3 The student will describe how life changed
  in America at the turn of the
• century.
• b. Describe the impact on American life of the
  Wright brothers (flight), George Washington
  Carver (science), Alexander Graham Bell
  (communication), and Thomas Edison (electricity).
• e. Describe the reasons people emigrated to the
  United States, from where they emigrated, and
  where they settled.
• SS5G2 The student will explain the reasons for
  the spatial patterns of economic activities.
• Explain how factor such as population,
  transportation, and resources influenced
  industrial location in the United States between
  the end of the Civil War and 1900.
• b. Locate primary agricultural and industrial
  locations since the turn of the 20th century and
  explain how factors such as population,
  transportation, and resources have influenced
  these areas.

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5th Grade Social Studies Standards

• SS5E3 The student will describe how consumers and
  businesses interact in the United States economy
  across time.
• c. Describe how entrepreneurs take risks to
  develop new goods and services to start a
  business.
• SS5CG3 The student will explain how amendments to
  the U.S. Constitution have maintained a
  representative democracy.
• Explain the purpose of the 12th and 17th
  amendments.
• Explain how voting rights were protected by the
  15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, and 26th amendments.

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Big Business and Big Cities
Vocabulary Preview
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Lesson 1 The Rise of Big Business

• Vocabulary
• Corporation
• Competition
• Monopoly
• Labor union
• strike

What impact did new inventions have on America?
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Thomas Edison
Watch Animated Heroes Thomas Edison in Unit
Folder!
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Stocks and Shares
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Stock Market
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Watch Inventions and Industry and Big Business
and Corruption in Unit Folder
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Lesson 2 Immigration in America

• Vocabulary
• Persecution
• Ethnic group
• tenement

Why did immigrants come to America?
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Study Guide
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Angel Island Photo Gallery
Ellis Island Photo Gallery
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Immigration
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Ethnic Neighborhoods
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Tenement Lifestyle
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Lesson 3 Growing Cities

• Vocabulary
• stockyard
• skyscraper
• rapid transit
• slum
• settlement house

How did factors such as population,
transportation, and resources influence
primary agricultural and industrial locations?
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Study Guide
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Lesson 4 Time of Reform

• Vocabulary
• progressives
• muckraker

How did Progressives try to improve life in the
United States in the early 1900s?
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Women's Suffrage
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