GPS 5th Grade Social Studies Vocabulary

Civil War Uncle Tom’s Cabin John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry slavery states’ rights Fort Sumter Appomattox Court House Atlanta Campaign Sherman’s March to the Sea Gettysburg Abraham Lincoln Robert E. Lee Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson sharecropping Freedmen’s Bureau Jim Crow Laws cattle trails Black Cowboys of Texas Great Western Cattle Trail Chisholm Trail Wright Brothers (flight) George Washington Carver (science) Alexander Graham Bell 9ommunication) Thomas Edison (electricity) William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt Spanish-American War Panama Canal Emigrate World War I Germany Lusitania Jazz Age (Louis Armstrong) Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes) Baseball (Babe Ruth) automobile (Henry Ford) airplane (Charles Lindbergh) Great Depression New Deal Stock market Crash 1929 Herbert Hoover Franklin Roosevelt Dust Bowl soup kitchens Civilian Conservation Corps Work Progress Administration Tennessee Valley Authority Duke Ellington Margaret Mitchell Jesse Owens World War II Pearl Harbor Iwo Jima D-Day VE Day VJ Day Holocaust atomic bomb Hiroshima Nagasaki Roosevelt Stalin Churchill Hirohito Truman Mussolini Hitler Rosie the Riveter Tuskegee Airmen United Nations Iron Curtain communism Berlin airlift Korean War North Atlantic Treaty Organization Joseph McCarthy Nikita Khrushchev Cuban Missile Crisis Vietnam War Brown vs. Board of Education Civil Rights Act Montgomery Bus Boycott March on Washington Voting Rights Act civil rights activist Thurgood Marshall Rosa Parks Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination President John F. Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy technologies television space exploration Middle East Peace efforts collapse of Soviet Union Persian Gulf War War on Terrorism personal computer internet geographic physical features Grand Canyon Salton Sea Great Salt Lake Mojave Desert man-made places Chisholm Trail Pittsburg, PA Gettysburg, PA Kitty Hawk, NC Pearl Harbor, HI Montgomery, AL spatial patterns of economic activity industrial location dispersion global economic activity responsibilities of citizens freedoms Bill of Rights due process of law citizen’s rights Constitutional Amendments e pluribus unum motto monetary policy Great Depression G8 countries trade activities NAFTA technological advancements