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GRADE 5 SOCIAL STUDIES - UNITED STATES HISTORY
Unit 5: The Civil War
Time: 6 Weeks
Hook ideas here!
Universal
Generalizations
People from different
regions may have
different ideas or
goals, which can lead
to conflict.
Line ideas here!
Unit Understandings
Social Studies Pacing Guide
Developed 2005
Revised 2012
Sinker ideas here!
Student-Friendly TEKS
Resources
Topics/Content
Unit Questions
Unit 5 Literature Connections
Conflict between the
North and South
increased as a result
of economic
differences.
concepts:
sectionalism, economic
differences, geography
(4) History. The student
understands political, economic,
and social changes that occurred
in the United States during the
19th century. The student is
expected to:
(E) identify the causes of the Civil
War, including sectionalism, states’
rights, and slavery, and the effects
of the Civil War, including
Reconstruction and the 13th, 14th,
and 15th amendments to the U.S.
Constitution;
Economic Issues

Differences in
Geography

Plantation economy in
the South

Industry in the North

Tariff issues
vocabulary:
plantation, industry,
immigrant
Did different ways of life
make conflict between the
North and South
unavoidable?
Essential Resources:
History Alive! America’s Past,
Lesson 18 – The Causes of the
Civil War.
Text, Ch. 14, pp. 464-465
Research Databases Concepts
Supplemental Resources
Leveled Text (Expanding &
Preserving the Union) p. 109116
Overview of Sectionalism
Lesson Plan: Causes of Civil
War
Thinking Maps Ideas
5.4E, 5.4E
-National Geographic Reading
Expeditions Series (ESL books)
-Benchmark Education Series
(ESL books)
Instructional Considerations: HA Lesson 18 strongly supports 8th grade.
People may have very
strong opinions about
issues that affect their
way of life.
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The North and South
had differing views
over the issue of
slavery, which divided
the country before the
Civil War.
(4) History. The student
understands political, economic,
and social changes that occurred
in the United States during the
19th century. The student is
expected to:
concepts:
(E) identify the causes of the Civil
War, including sectionalism, states’
Slavery

Economic necessity in
the South

Abolitionists in the North

Fugitive Slaves

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Resisting Slavery
vocabulary:
fugitive, slave code,
Was slavery an economic
or moral issue?
Essential Resources:
History Alive! America’s Past,
Lesson 18 – The Causes of the
Civil War.
Text, Ch. 14, pp. 466-475
Research Databases Concepts
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abolitionism, slavery
rights, and slavery, and the effects
of the Civil War, including
Reconstruction and the 13th, 14th,
and 15th amendments to the U.S.
Constitution;
Underground Railroad
Supplemental Resources
Lesson Plan: Conflict of North
and South
Thinking Maps Ideas
5.4E
(USH 7C)
-National Geographic Reading
Expeditions Series (ESL books)
-Benchmark Education Series
(ESL books)
Instructional Considerations: HA Lesson 18 strongly supports 8th grade.
The failure of
compromise may
make conflict
necessary.
The failure of
compromise led to
the division of the
North and South and
the beginning of the
Civil War.
concepts:
compromise, states rights,
secession, civil war
(4) History. The student
understands political, economic,
and social changes that
occurred in the United States
during the 19th century. The
student is expected to:
(E) identify the causes of the Civil
War, including sectionalism, states’
rights, and slavery, and the effects
of the Civil War, including
Reconstruction and the 13th, 14th,
and 15th amendments to the U.S.
Constitution;
Failure of Compromise

Slavery in the territories

Compromises to
preserve balance in
Congress

Growing political
differences

Secession and War
vocabulary:
free state, slave state,
Confederacy,
Could there ever be a
compromise over the issue
of slavery?
Essential Resources:
History Alive! America’s Past,
Lesson 18 – The Causes of the
Civil War.
Text, Ch. 14, pp. 476-487
Lesson Plan: Failure to
Compromise and Civil War
Supplemental Resources
Leveled Text (Expanding &
Preserving the Union) p. 117124
(USH 8B)
Lesson Plan: Failure to
Compromise
-National Geographic Reading
Expeditions Series (ESL books)
-Benchmark Education Series
(ESL books)
Instructional Considerations: HA Lesson 18 strongly supports 8th grade.
Winners in a conflict
usually impose their
will on the losers.
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The victory of the
North led to several
amendments
designed to insure
the rights of African
Americans.
(4) History. The student
understands political, economic,
and social changes that occurred
in the United States during the
19th century. The student is
expected to:
concepts:
amendment, segregation
(E) identify the causes of the Civil
War, including sectionalism, states’
rights, and slavery, and the effects
Civil War Amendments

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

Segregation in the South
vocabulary:
sharecropping
Did the Civil War bring the
ex-slaves to full equality as
Americans?
Essential Resources:
Lesson Plan: Civil War
Amendments
Supplemental Resources
Leveled Text (Expanding &
Preserving the Union) p. 125132
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of the Civil War, including
Reconstruction and the 13th, 14th,
and 15th amendments to the U.S.
Constitution;
Text, Ch. 14, pp. 519-521
-National Geographic Reading
Expeditions Series (ESL books)
-Benchmark Education Series
(ESL books)
Instructional Considerations:
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