5^th Grade Social Studies Final Study Guide May 2009

 

Feudal Japan

Vocabulary:

• Archipelago
• Defection
• Exclusion
• Figurehead
• Haiku
• Hermit
• Isolation
• Meditate
• Samurai
• Shogun
• Typhoon
• Kabuki
• Noh

 

Main Ideas:

1. What are the geographical features of Japan?
2. What were the roles of Japan’s early emperors?
3. How did Chinese culture influence Japan?
4. Describe Shinto beliefs and practices.
5. Where did Buddhism begin and how did it spread to Japan?
6. Describe some of the teachings of Buddha, including the “eightfold path”.
7. What is a samurai’s role in society?
8. What were the levels of Japanese society under the feudal system?
9. How do you write a haiku?

 

 

Westward Expansion before the Civil War

Vocabulary:

• Everglades
• Flatboat
• Irrigation canal
• Pack animal
• Paddle wheel
• Stockade

 

Main Ideas:

1. What challenges faced American travelers in the 1700s?
2. Why did people want to go west?
3. How did Daniel Boone help the westward movement?
4. Describe Lewis and Clark’s expedition, including the role of Sacagawea.
5. How did settlers and government push Native Americans off their homelands?
6. What improvements were made in transportation and how did these affect travel?
7. What is Manifest Destiny?
8. What was the significance of the Alamo?
9. Why did Texas have to wait to become a state?
10. Why was Oregon valuable to Americans?
11. Why did the US go to war with Mexico?
12. Why did Mormons settle the Far West?
13. How did the discovery of gold affect the Far West?

 

The Civil War

Vocabulary:

• Abolitionist
• Arsenal
• Blockade
• Compromise
• Draft
• Fugitive
• Prohibit
• Racist
• Ratify
• Rural
• Secede
• Strategy
• Tactic
• Urban

 

Main Ideas:

1. What is slavery?
2. What types of jobs did slaves perform?
3. What was the Missouri Compromise?
4. How did the Underground Railroad work?
5. What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
6. How and why was the Confederacy formed?
7. What were the advantages and disadvantages of the North and South in the war?
8. What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
9. What was the significance of the Union victory at Gettysburg?
10. What did Lincoln talk about in the Gettysburg Address?
11. Describe Lincoln’s vision for peace.
12. Why did John Wilkes Booth assassinate Lincoln?
13. What were the goals of the Freedman’s Bureau?
14. What was the significance of the Fourteenth Amendment?
15. Know the accomplishments of the following people:
• Robert E. Lee
• Stonewall Jackson
• Abraham Lincoln
• John Wilkes Booth
• Clara Barton
• Harriet Tubman
• Nat Turner
• Ulysses S. Grant

 

Westward Expansion after the Civil War

Vocabulary:

• Census
• Evaporation
• Graze
• Immigrant
• Precipitation
• Railroad ties

 

Main Ideas:

1. Describe life in a mining town and boomtown.
2. What was the importance of the transcontinental railroad for the U.S.?
3. What were some of the difficulties faced in constructing the railroad?
4. How did railroads help the settling of the West?
5. Why did ranchers move the route of their drive farther west?
6. Why did ranchers begin fencing their cattle?
7. What is the difference between the Great Plains and the Interior Lowlands?
8. What type of houses did people build on the Plains?
9. What were three inventions that helped farmers cope with the dry climate and lack of wood?
10. Why did Russia want to sell Alaska?
11. Why did Seward and others want to buy Alaska?