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Authority Figures
Before
Bodies of Water
Far
First
Human Needs (food,
clothing, shelter)
Jobs
Landforms
Last
Left
Natural Resources
Near
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Needs and Wants
Next
Over
Purchasing
Right
Rules
Self-producing
Today
Tomorrow
Trading
Under
Voting
Weather
Yesterday
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Kindergarten
Dates, Places, Events
Constitution Day
Independence Day
President’s Day
Veterans Day
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Dates, Places, Events
San Jacinto Day
Independence Day
Veterans Day
Constitution Day
Terms
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Past
Present
Future
Calendar Time (days, weeks, months, and years)
Cardinal Directions
Goods and Services
Markets
Choice
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People
Christopher Columbus
George Washington
Jose Antonio Navarro
Stephen F. Austin
People
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Sam Houston
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther King Jr.
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Garrett Morgan
Richard Allen
Benjamin Franklin
Francis Scott Key
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Terms
Historical and present times
Past, present, and future
Primary sources
Map elements (title, orientation, legend/map keys)
Natural resources
Natural hazards
Settlement patterns
Urban, suburban, rural
Physical environment
Human modification
Income
Goods and services
Earning, spending and saving money
Producing and consuming
Functions of government
Governmental services
Tax
Symbols (state and national birds, U.S. and Texas
Flags, and Uncle Sam)
2nd Grade
Dates, Places, Events
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Veterans Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Thanksgiving
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Thurgood Marshall
Irma Rangel
John Hancock
Theodore Roosevelt
Amelia Earhart
W.E.B. DuBois
Robert Fulton
George Washington Carver
Paul Revere
Abigail Adams
World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs)
Navajo Code Talkers
Sojourner Truth
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Terms
Past, present, and future
Year, decade, and century
Climate, landforms, natural resources, and natural
hazards
Compass rose, grid system, symbols
Earning, spending, saving and donating money
Scarcity
Free market
Supply and Demand
Profit
Declaration of Independence
U.S. Constitution
Bill of Rights
“consent of the governed”
Civic responsibility (obeying laws, serving the
community, serving on a jury, and voting)
Red Cross
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3rd Grade
Dates, Places, Events
Deserts, mountains, wetlands, and plains
Volcanoes, hurricanes and earthquakes
Rocky Mountains, the Mississippi River and Austin
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People
Pierre-Charles L’Enfant
Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Franklin
Daniel Boone
Christopher Columbus
The Founding Fathers
Juan de Onate
Henry Ford
Mary Kay Ash
Wallace Amos
Milton Hershey
Sam Walton
Helen Keller
Clara Barton
Ruby Bridges
Military and first responders
Hector P. Garcia
James A. Lovell
Harriet Tubman
Juliette Gordon Low
Todd Beamer
Ellen Ochoa
John “Danny” Olivas
The Four Chaplains
Kadir Nelson
Tomie dePaola
Phillis Wheatley
Carmen Lomas Garza
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Bill Martin Jr.
Jonas Salk
Maria Mitchell
Cyrus McCormick
Bill Gates
Louis Pasteur
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4th Grade
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Terms
Annexation
Division of Labor
Free enterprise system
Geographic tools (grid system,
legends, symbols, scales, and
compass rose)
Immigration
Mass production
Migration
Political, population and economic
regions
Population distribution
Specialization
Supply and demand
Three branches of government
Urbanization
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Dates, Places, Events
Bill of Rights
Catholic missions
Cattle industry
Celebrate Freedom Week
Cinco de Mayo
Civil War
Declaration of Independence
Dust Bowl
Fiesta San Antonio
Geographic Regions of Texas (Mountain
and Basins, Great Plains, North Central
Plains, and Coastal Plains) including their
landforms, climate, and vegetation
Great Depression
Juneteenth
Landmarks of Texas (6 flags over Texas,
the San Jacinto Monument, the Alamo,
and various missions)
Meusebach-Comanche Treaty
Mexican War of Independence
Oktoberfest
Reconstruction
Red River War
Spindletop
Strawberry Festival
Texas Independence Day
Texas Revolution
The Battle of San Jacinto
The Battle of the Alamo
The Runaway Scrape
The Texas Declaration of Independence
U.S. Constitution
U.S.-Mexican War
World War II
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People
Adina de Zavala
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Alabama-Coushatta
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American Indian groups in Texas and 
North America
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Ann Richards
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Anson Jones
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
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Audie Murphy
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Barbara Jordan
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Bessie Coleman
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Cabeza de Vaca
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Caddo
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Carlos Espalier
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Charles Goodnight
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Chelo Silva
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Clara Driscoll
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Cleto Rodriguez
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Comanche
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David Crockett
Enrique Esparza
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Francisco Coronado
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Gail Borden
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George Childress
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Henry B. Gonzalez
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Identify leaders in government
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U.S. senators, local U.S.
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representatives, and Texans who
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have been president)
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James A. Baker III
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James Bowie
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John Tower
Jose Antonio Navarro
Jose de Escandon
Jose Francisco Ruiz
Joseph Glidden
Juan Antonio Padilla
Juan N. Sequin
Julius Lorenzo Cobb Bledsoe
Jumano
Karankawa
Kickapoo
Lipan Apache
Lizzie Johnson
Lorenzo de Zavala
Lydia Mendoza
Martin de Leon
Michael DeBakey
Millie Hughes-Fulford
Mirabeau Lamar
Pattillo Higgins
Placido Benavides
Raul A. Gonzalez Jr.
Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la
Salle
Richard King
Sam Houston
Sam Rayburn
Scott Joplin
Sidney Sherman
Stanley Marcus
Stephen F. Austin
Susanna Dickinson
Texas Rangers
Vicente Filisola
Wallace Jefferson
William B. Travis
Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo
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Terms
13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence
Division of labor
Founding Fathers
Free enterprise system
Geographic tools (grid systems, legends,
symbols, scales, and compass rose)
Immigration
Industrialization
Manifest Destiny
Mass production
Migration
Monarchy
Patriot
Plantation system
Preamble
Representative government
Sectionalism
Slavery
Specialization
States’ rights
Supply and demand
Three branches of government
U.S. Constitution
Urbanization
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5th Grade
Dates, Places, Events
2008 presidential election
50 states and their capitals
American Progress
Boston Tea Party
Civil Rights Movement
Civil War
Columbus Day
Constitution Day
French and Indian War
Great Depression
Great Plains
Independence Day
Industrial Revolution
Labor Day
Landform, climate and vegetation regions (Great Plains, Rocky
Mountains, and Coastal Plains)
Louisiana Purchase
Mayflower Compact
Memorial Day
Mississippi River
Mount Rushmore
Paul Revere’s Ride
Political, population, and economic regions
Reconstruction
Regions (Northeast, the Midwest, and the Southwest)
Rocky Mountains
Space program
St. Augustine
Ten largest urban areas
The Statue of Liberty
Transcontinental Railroad
Veterans Day
Virginia House of Burgesses
War of 1812
War on Terror
White House
World Wars
Yankee Doodle
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People
442nd Regimental Combat Team
Alexander Graham Bell
Anne Hutchinson
Benjamin Franklin
Cesar Chavez
Charles Pinckney
Colin Powell
Dwight Eisenhower
Eli Whitney
Franklin D. Roosevelt
George Mason
George Washington
George Washington Carver
James Madison
Jane Addams
John Adams
John Deere
John Smith
John Wise
Lewis and Clark
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nathan Hale
Neil Armstrong
Roger Sherman
Roger Williams
Ronald Reagan
Rosa Parks
Samuel Adams
Susan B. Anthony
The Sons of Liberty
The Wright Brothers
Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson
Tuskegee Airman
Uncle Sam
William Bradford
William Penn
*Words in bold are “Including” words