Table of Contents Letter to the Student..................................... 5 Letter to the Family...................................... 6 Georgia Correlation Chart................................ 7 Pretest................................................ 11 Georgia Performance Standards Chapter 1 Historical Understandings.................... 29 Lesson 1 The Civil War..................... 30 SS5H1.a-e Lesson 2 Reconstruction................... 36 SS5H2.a-c Lesson 3 Turn of the Century................ 40 SS5H3.a-d Lesson 4 World War I...................... 44 SS5H4.a Lesson 5 Postwar America.................. 48 SS5H4.b Lesson 6 The Great Depression and the New Deal 52 SS5H5.a-c Lesson 7 World War II...................... 56 SS5H6.a-f Lesson 8 The Cold War Era................. 62 SS5H7.a-c; SS5H8.a Lesson 9 Modern Culture................... 68 SS5H8.b-d Lesson 10 Recent Developments.............. 74 SS5H9.a-b Chapter 1 CRCT Review..................... 78 Chapter 2 Geographic Understandings.................. 81 Lesson 11 United States Features............. 82 SS5G1.a-b Lesson 12 Industrial Locations................ 86 SS5G2.a Lesson 13 Economic Activity................. 90 SS5G2.b-c Chapter 2 CRCT Review..................... 94 Duplicating any part of this book is prohibited by law. 3
Georgia CRCT Coach, GPS Edition, Social Studies, Grade 5 Chapter 3 Government and Civic Understandings......... 97 Lesson 14 Citizens Rights................... 98 SS5CG1.a-d Lesson 15 Representative Democracy......... 102 SS5CG2.a-b; Chapter 3 CRCT Review.................... 106 SS5CG3.a-b; SS5CG4 Chapter 4 Economic Understandings.................. 109 Lesson 16 Basic Economic Concepts......... 110 SS5E1.a-f Lesson 17 Major Institutions................. 114 SS5E2.a-c Lesson 18 Consumers and Businesses........ 118 SS5E3.a-c Lesson 19 Spending and Saving............. 122 SS5E4 Chapter 4 CRCT Review.................... 126 Posttest.............................................. 129 Glossary............................................. 145 Notes................................................ 153 4 Duplicating any part of this book is prohibited by law.
5 Postwar America SS5H4.b When World War I ended, life improved. Factories went into high gear and produced products to satisfy a growing demand. Many Americans worked in factories. Their wages gave them buying power. The American economy was booming. This period is called the Roaring Twenties. Improved Standard of Living The United States became the richest country in the world. Returning soldiers went back to work. Factories turned from making tools of war to making goods like cars, radios, and cosmetics. Product after product was made by mass production. In mass production, the parts of a product are identical and the order in which the parts are assembled is always the same. Products are mass produced in factories. Mass production makes products cheaper. Necessities such as clothing and shoes were much more affordable and did not have to be made at home. Items that were once luxuries were now within reach of the average working person. Other than clothes and shoes, working people could now afford items such as cars and household appliances like washing machines, refrigerators, and vacuum cleaners. These goods had once been luxuries that only the well-to-do could afford. As people bought an increasing amount of goods, business profits soared, and so did workers wages. Automobiles and Airplanes Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company and created the modern assembly line that is still used in factories today. He created the first mass produced automobile, the Model T. He was awarded 161 U.S. patents in his lifetime. By 1927, Ford had sold 15 million Model T cars. Gas stations, tire shops, repair shops, and motels seemed to pop up everywhere. People s lives changed, too. Now they could travel almost anywhere quickly and easily. 48 Duplicating any part of this book is prohibited by law.
Lesson 5: Postwar America Model T Fords were mass produced. Planes made for the war began to deliver mail after 1918. People began to pay to travel with the mail. After WWI, factories mass produced airplanes. Until the 1950s, plane travel was not widespread. Charles Lindbergh was a pilot who was famous for being the first to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. He flew from New York to Paris in 1927 in The Spirit of St. Louis. He was soon one of the first celebrities of the modern age. Radio, Talkies, and the Jazz Age Mass production made radios common and affordable. Radio was revolutionary. Until radio, people got their news and entertainment from reading materials such as newspapers, magazines, and books. They also attended theater and movies. However, radio was live and could be heard in the home. Listeners had favorite dramatic and comedy shows. Americans also listened to news and talk shows. Families gathered around the radio, as families do today around television. In the early 1920s, many people went to the movies. During that time, movies had music, but you couldn t hear the actors speaking to each other. You read what they were saying on the screen. In 1927, the first full-length feature movie with sound, The Jazz Singer, was made. Movies with sound were called talkies. Movies became even more popular when talkies were released. When people talk about popular culture in the 1920s, they call it the Jazz Age. Jazz was first created on plantations. After slavery, it lived on in New Orleans. Radios quickly spread jazz all over the country. Duplicating any part of this book is prohibited by law. 49
Georgia CRCT Coach, GPS Edition, Social Studies, Grade 5 Louis Armstrong was a jazz trumpeter and singer who helped make jazz popular. His form of jazz centered on improvising, or making up the song on the spot. He was also in many films and was one of the most well-known African American performers in the world. Harlem Renaissance By the 1920s, African Americans began to prosper in some parts of the U.S. for the first time. People whose grandparents had lived through slavery became educated and had good jobs. In the New York neighborhood of Harlem, African American culture blossomed between 1920 and 1940. The Harlem Renaissance happened in music, dance, politics, literature, and art. The poet Langston Hughes was one of the best-known Harlem Renaissance writers. His poems portrayed African Americans in a proud and hopeful light. List some of the important products that began to be mass produced after World War I. Choose one and write about how it might have affected people s lives in the 20th century. 50 Duplicating any part of this book is prohibited by law.
Lesson Practice DIRECTIONS Circle the letter next to the best answer for each question. 1. Which of the following did NOT help make more useful and better quality products available? A. mass production B. standardization C. the Harlem Renaissance D. credit and installment payments Many consumer goods such as cars, radios, cosmetics, and household appliances were more readily available to working-class people in the early 1900s. This increased the demand for workers and for better products to be produced. 2. The Harlem Renaissance had an impact in the United States on A. poetry, jazz music, and dance. B. classical music, television, and radio. C. mass production and women s suffrage. D. the Nineteenth Amendment. 3. The first mass-produced automobile was the A. Mercury Cougar. B. Toyota Tercel. C. Ford Model T. D. Ford F-10. African Americans who were the children and grandchildren of slaves began to prosper for the first time after World War I. Duplicating any part of this book is prohibited by law. 51