What does a student learn in StateAlabama,GradeGrade 5,SubjectSocial Studies?

Students learn how the United States changed at home during the early 1900s, including new laws, workers' rights, and the country's entry into World War I.

Students learn what caused the economy to collapse in the 1930s, how ordinary families survived the Great Depression, and what government programs Franklin Roosevelt put in place to help.

Students learn why World War II started, who fought in it, and how it changed the world. They look at key events, major leaders, and what the war meant for the United States and other countries.

Students examine how World War II changed everyday life inside the United States, from factory work and rationing to civil rights tensions and the return of soldiers after the war ended.

Students study how World War II reshaped countries, borders, and daily life around the world in the 1940s and 1950s. They look at what changed for ordinary people far beyond the battlefield.

This standard covers U.S. history from the 1970s to the present. Students examine major events, people, and shifts in American life across the past five decades.

Students learn how factories grew larger and farms became more productive in the early 1900s, and what made both possible. Think assembly lines, new machines, and railroads connecting goods to markets across the country.

Students learn how inventors and business leaders in the early 1900s changed everyday American life, and which Alabamians played a part in those changes.

Students learn how Alabama shifted from a farming economy to an industrial one around 1900, when iron and steel mills, textile factories, and lumber operations grew into major sources of work and wealth across the state.

Students learn why American cities grew quickly around 1900, including why Birmingham became a major industrial city. The focus is on jobs, factories, and the pull of city life that drew people away from farms.

Students learn about political changes in the early 1900s when reformers pushed to make government more honest and responsive. The lesson covers national shifts alongside specific reforms that reshaped Alabama's laws and leadership.

Women fought for the right to vote long before it became law in 1920. Students learn how Alabama women organized, petitioned, and campaigned for suffrage in the years leading up to the Nineteenth Amendment.

Alabama rewrote its state constitution in 1901, partly due to pressure from the Populist Movement. The new rules, like literacy tests and poll taxes, made it harder for Black citizens and poor white farmers to vote.

Students learn how Alabama reformers in the late 1800s worked to end the practice of leasing prisoners to private companies as cheap labor. Julia Tutwiler led much of that fight and pushed for more humane treatment inside prisons.

Students learn about the Progressive Era, a period in the early 1900s when reformers pushed to fix problems like unsafe workplaces, child labor, and corrupt government. They study how those efforts played out nationally and in Alabama.

Students learn how new laws, community leaders, and organizations worked to open up schools and expand access to education across Alabama during the early 1900s.

Students learn how labor unions and reformers pushed for laws that limited working hours, raised wages, and made factories safer for workers and children.

Students learn who Helen Keller was and what she accomplished. Despite being deaf and blind, she became a writer and activist who pushed for better treatment and greater opportunities for people with disabilities.

Students examine why millions of people moved to the United States or relocated within it during the early 1900s. They look at what pushed people to leave home and what pulled them toward new cities, states, and regions like Alabama.

Immigrants arrived in America through different entry points, and each experience varied. Students compare what it was like to arrive through places like Ellis Island on the East Coast versus Angel Island on the West Coast, looking at how inspections, wait times, and treatment differed by location.

The Great Migration was the movement of millions of Black Americans from the rural South to Northern cities in the early 1900s. Students identify the economic hardships and racial violence that pushed people to leave, and the factory jobs and greater freedoms that pulled them north.

Students learn why World War I started, including the alliances and rivalries that pulled nations into conflict, and what changed afterward, from redrawn borders to the conditions that shaped the rest of the twentieth century.

Students learn why the U.S. joined World War I after years of staying out, tracing the international events that pushed the country in, from submarine attacks to alliances pulling nations into conflict.

Students name the countries that fought on each side of World War I and find them on a map. The Allied side included France, Britain, and Russia; the opposing Central Powers included Germany and Austria-Hungary.

Students learn how Alabamians served in World War I, including soldiers in the 167th Infantry Regiment. They look at what those men did overseas and how their service shaped the state's connection to the war.

Students find Alabama's military training camps, ammunition depots, and the Port of Mobile on a map and explain how each one supported the U.S. war effort during World War I.

Students learn about Alabamians who shaped American culture in the 1920s and 1930s, from musicians and artists to athletes and film figures, and how their work connected to the Harlem Renaissance and the rise of jazz.

Farmers in Alabama faced a triple hit in the early 1900s: growing the same crop year after year wore out the soil, a small beetle called the boll weevil destroyed cotton plants, and falling prices meant even a good harvest barely paid the bills.

Students explain why the U.S. economy collapsed in 1929. They look at the risky borrowing, overproduction, and speculative investing of the 1920s that made the stock market crash likely.

The Great Depression hit Alabama hard. Students learn how job losses, falling farm prices, and rising tensions between workers and employers shaped daily life across the state and the country after the economy collapsed in 1929.

Students learn what caused the Dust Bowl, a massive drought and dust storm crisis that destroyed farmland across the Great Plains in the 1930s, and which states and communities were hit hardest.

Students examine what President Roosevelt did during the Great Depression, including jobs programs, banking reforms, and relief efforts, and decide whether those government actions helped ordinary Americans get back on their feet.

Students identify the leaders and reformers who shaped New Deal programs in the 1930s, including Alabama political figures who pushed for change during the Great Depression.

Students identify specific New Deal programs that brought jobs, built public works, and gave financial relief to Alabama families during the Great Depression.

Students explain why the U.S. joined World War II and describe what American forces, factories, and allies did to help defeat Germany, Italy, and Japan.

Students compare how life differed under totalitarian governments, where one leader held total control, and democratic governments, where citizens had a voice. This sets up why the Allied and Axis powers ended up on opposite sides of the war.

Students learn how American soldiers fought in World War II, including the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of Black pilots who flew combat missions in Europe, and the Alabama servicemen who earned the Medal of Honor for exceptional courage in battle.

Students learn why events like Pearl Harbor, D-Day, and the atomic bomb were turning points in World War II, and what the Holocaust and the internment of Japanese-Americans reveal about the human cost of the war.

Students learn how people in Alabama supported World War II, from factory workers and farmers who supplied the military to soldiers who fought overseas.

Students learn how Alabama factories, shipyards, and military bases supplied troops during World War II, from building planes and ships to training soldiers on home soil.

Students find and label specific military bases and prisoner-of-war camps across Alabama on a map, places like Redstone Arsenal, Tuskegee Army Air Field, and Camp Rucker that were central to the state's role in the war.

Women and Black Alabamians took on factory jobs, military support roles, and other work that had been closed to them before the war. Students explain how those new opportunities changed daily life and shaped what people expected after the war ended.

After World War II, the U.S. economy boomed and everyday life shifted fast. Students learn how more families bought homes and cars, new suburbs spread across the country, and popular culture changed through television and music.

Students identify real Alabamians, such as artists, athletes, and musicians, who shaped American culture from the years after World War II through the 1970s.

After World War II, fewer Alabama families farmed the land, and more people moved into cities and towns. Students describe what drove that shift and how it changed everyday life across the state.

Students trace the major events of the Civil Rights Movement, from bus boycotts and sit-ins to landmark marches, and learn which organizations pushed for change and what each one did.

Students learn how civil rights activists pushed for change through protests, court cases, and organizing, and what those efforts actually changed in daily life for Black Americans.

Students trace the timeline of civil rights events in Alabama and across the country, then explain how protests, laws, and turning points in one place shaped what happened somewhere else.

Students learn about the Alabama men and women who marched, organized, and spoke out during the Civil Rights Movement, from well-known leaders to the everyday people who made their work possible.

Students learn how people in Alabama tried to block or slow the Civil Rights Movement, from local officials who enforced segregation to groups that used threats and violence to stop protesters from gaining rights.

Students learn about Alabamians, including Rosa Parks and Fred Shuttlesworth, who pushed for equal rights in the years after World War II. Their actions shaped the broader Civil Rights Movement across the country.

Students explain why the U.S. tried to stop communism from spreading after World War II. They also find countries like the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba on a map.

The Cold War was a decades-long standoff between the U.S. and Soviet Union after World War II. Students learn how that rivalry shaped U.S. decisions at home and abroad, from military spending to foreign conflicts like Korea and Vietnam.

Students learn why the U.S. entered the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and how soldiers and citizens from Alabama took part in those conflicts.

Students explain how the Space Race pushed the U.S. and Soviet Union to develop new rockets and spacecraft, and how Alabama's Redstone Arsenal and Marshall Space Flight Center were central to getting Americans into space.

Students trace where and why the U.S. military has fought overseas since 1980, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that followed the September 11 attacks.

Students research how Alabama's industries and businesses fit into the wider national and global economy from the 1970s to today, then report what they find.

Students pick a side on whether modern technology (like the internet or smartphones) has done more good or harm, then back up that opinion with facts and reasons.

Students identify laws and political milestones, both national and in Alabama, that expanded civil rights after 1970. Think voting access, disability protections, and legislation that widened equal treatment under the law.