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This year 5th grade will be using the Catholic Textbook Project textbooks to support the teaching of Social Studies.
Unit 1: Native American Unit
We have gotten started on the Vocab and Early Peoples!
Vocab:
Bering Strait
Ice Age
glacier
irrigation
migrate
artifact
archaeology
mesa
drought
empire
pyramid
slavery
surplus
tribute
Tenochtitlan
Early Peoples:
Mound Builders
Anasazi
Aztec
Maya
Inca
Vocab:
tribe
clan
league
reservation
longhouse
wampum
Iroquois Confederacy
compromise
pueblo
adobe
kiva
kachina
hogan
prairie
lodge
teepee
travois
powwow
jerky
technology
potlatch
totem pole
shaman
People of North America:
Eastern Woodlands
Plains People
People of the Southwest Desert
Northwest Coast Peoples
Our Current topic is above this text. Below this text are the topics we will cover or have already covered.
Chapter 2
What happened after Europeans learned of this "New World"? With the history of a strongly Catholic Europe (losing touch with the Faith soon), European countries are out to explore, settle, and evangelize this "new land and peoples". However, as goes with the story of Man since the Fall of Adam and Eve, so drives some of the desires of men to get and think what they want not always remembering the dignity of each human person.
Chapter 4: France in the New World
The Founding of New France (pgs 69-75)
Why did the King of France want to take part in the New World?
Who discovered the St. Lawrence Waterway?
Who established the settlement of Quebec?
What was the name of the league that was made up of 5 tribes?
What did the French call the area we call Canada?
The Cross in the Wilderness (pgs 75-81)
The French Missionaries ministered to which tribes?
What were the French Missionaries called and why?
What was New Amsterdam?
What did Henry Hudson discover?
Was was another name for Kateri Tekawitha?
New Lands for King Louis (pgs 82-89)
What were Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette known for?
What did Fr. Marquette do to help Joliet?
What did La Salle name the lands he founded for France?
What is the current name for La Salle's "Paris of the New World"?
Chapter 5: England Comes to America
A Pirate's Life (pgs 91-99)
Who also thought they could reach the Indies by sailing west?
Who was Queen Elizabeth's "dragon"? What did he do as an explorer?
How did Virginia get its name?
Sir Walter Raleigh sponsored 2 colonies, both where?
Who was the 1st English child to be born in America?
A Land where Tobacco is King (pgs 99-105)
How did John Smith save Jamestown?
Who was Pocahontas? How did she help Jamestown colonists?
How did John Rolfe help save the Virginia colony?
Who married Pocahontas? Why was this union important?
Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay & The Founding of New England (pages 106-111)
What was the Mayflower Compact?
When did the Mayflower reach America (year)?
Name 2 colonies founded by the Puritans (out of 4)?
Name the war that almost destroyed Massachusetts.
Name the 4 original New England States.
Our Lady's Haven & Other Colonies
Who founded Maryland and why?
Who was Maryland secretly founded for and who did they say it was founded for?
What was New York City's original name?
Why did William Penn found a colony?
Chapter 6
6.1 Queen Anne and King George Go to War (pgs 121-128)
What was the name of the 1st Settlement in Florida by Spain?
Why did King Philip II of Spain establish settlements in Florida?
When were the Florida missions established?
Who where the Charlestonians?
Why did the Charlestonians seek to destroy the missions in Florida?
What did the Charlestonians do to the Indians in the missions of Georgia and Florida?
What caused the War of Jenkins' Ear?
Why did Governor Dinwiddie send George Washington to Fort Duquesne?
6.2 The French and Indian War
Why was the French and Indian War so important to the history of North America?
Who was William Pitt? What did he do for the French and Indian War?
Where was the decisive victory to turn the French and Indian War to the Colonists Favor? (What was the name of the plain?)
What was the name of the Indian chief who tried to drive the British out of the regions between Lake Superior and the Mississippi River?
Chapter 7: If This Be Treason...
7.1
Why did the colonists protest the Stamp Act?
What powers did Parliament say it had in the Declaratory Act?
List two things that Samuel Adams did.
What were the committees called that organized the fight against the British in the colonies?
Why did the Bostonians dump tea into Boston harbor?
7.2
Name one thing Parliament did to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party
What was the First Continental Congress? Where did it meet and why?
In what two Massachusetts towns were the first battles of the Revolution fought?
Chapter 8: The Revolutionary War
8.1-2
Name the 2 men who seized the British Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain in 1775.
What was the name of the battle in New York, at the beginning of the Revolution, that the Americans lost while inflicting great losses on the British?
Whom did the Continental Congress appoint as head of the army of the United Colonies?
What was the name of the pamphlet that convinced many Americans to fight for independence from Great Britain? Who wrote this pamphlet?
On what day and year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
Why did so many Americans remain loyal to the British king during the Revolution? What did Patriots call these Loyalists?
Chapter 9: How We Got Our Constitution
9.1
1. What was the first constitution of the United States called?
2. How many representatives did each state send to Congress under this constitution?
3. Name two powers the Congress had under this constitution.
4. Name two weaknesses of this constitution?
9.2
1. Which states wanted all states to have equal representation in Congress, the large or the small states?
2. What was the name of the plan favored by the small states? What was the name of the plan favored by the large states?
3. What was the name of the compromise that settled the dispute between the large and small states?
4. Why was George Washington so important to the constitutional convention?
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