1. Social Studies Unit 3: “Big Business and Big Cities”
Jeff Davis Elementary School
Fifth Grade

2. 5th Grade Social Studies Standards
SS5H3 The student will describe how life changed in America at the turn of the
century.
b. Describe the impact on American life of the Wright brothers (flight), George Washington Carver (science), Alexander Graham Bell (communication), and Thomas Edison (electricity).
d. Describe the reasons people emigrated to the United States, from where they emigrated, and where they settled.
SS5G2 The student will explain the reasons for the spatial patterns of economic activities.
Explain how factor such as population, transportation, and resources influenced industrial location in the United States between the end of the Civil War and 1900.
b. Locate primary agricultural and industrial locations since the turn of the 20th century and explain how factors such as population, transportation, and resources have influenced these areas.

3. 5th Grade Social Studies Standards
SS5E3 The student will describe how consumers and businesses interact in the United States economy across time.
b. Describe how people earn income by selling their labor to businesses.
c. Describe how entrepreneurs take risks to develop new goods and services to start a business.
SS5CG3 The student will explain how amendments to the U.S. Constitution have maintained a representative democracy.
Explain the purpose of the 12th and 17th amendments.
Explain how voting rights were protected by the 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, and 26th amendments.

4. Big Business and Big Cities
Vocabulary Preview

5. Lesson 1: The Rise of Big Business
Vocabulary
Corporation
Competition
Monopoly
Labor union
strike
Essential Questions:
How did inventions impact American life in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
EQ: Who are entrepreneurs? (Discuss the risks they take to develop new goods and services when they start a business.)

7. Thomas Edison
Watch Animated Heroes: Thomas Edison in Unit Folder!

8. Stocks and Shares

9. Stock Market

14. Description of the Cartoon Above
Political Cartoon illustrating John D. Rockefeller’s Monopoly of the Oil Business.

17. Watch Inventions and Industry and Big Business and Corruption in Unit Folder

19. Lesson 2: Immigration in America
Vocabulary
Persecution
Ethnic group
tenement
Essential Questions:
Why did people immigrate to the United States, from where did they come and where did they settle?

20. Study Guide

22. Angel Island Photo Gallery
Ellis Island Photo Gallery

23. Immigration

25. Ethnic Neighborhoods

26. Tenement Lifestyle

30. Lesson 3: Growing Cities
Vocabulary
stockyard
skyscraper
rapid transit
slum
settlement house
Essential Question:
How did factors such as population, transportation, and resources influence industrial location in the United States between the end of the Civil War and 1900?

31. Study Guide

40. Lesson 4: Time of Reform Essential Questions:
Vocabulary
progressives
muckraker
Essential Questions:
Why were progressives important to millions of people in the United States?
What is the purpose of the 12th and 17th amendments to the U. S. Constitution?

41. Study Guide

44. Women's Suffrage