5th Grade Social Studies Online Resources

Reconstruction

Westward Expansion
Abraham Lincoln The Oregon Trail
Abraham Lincoln Research Site Central Pacific Railroad
13th Admendment The Grandest Enterprise
14th Admendment All About the American West
15th Admendment Buffalo Soldiers
Reconstruction and It's Aftermath Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
A Plantation in Ruins Why are they called Buffalo Soldiers?
A Plantation in Ruins Video Clips Native Americans
Sharecropping Contract Ghost from The Past - Indian Removal Act
Slave to a Sharecropper Trail of Tears
Veto of the First Reconstruction Act History of the American West
Timeline of Reconstruction Immigration
Reconstruction and Rights Immigration to the United States
Industrial Revolution Story of Immigration
Rise of the Industrial Revolution Immigration in the 1900s
City Life in the late 19th Century Immigrating in 1905 - Eyewitness Account
Rural Life in the late 19th Century Ellis Island
Work in the late 19th Century Images from Ellis Island
Biographies of the Industrial Revolution

World War I
Industrial Revolution Facts and Fun Stuff Timeline of WWI
Technology in 1900 First World War
Inventors and Inventions WWI
First Flight The Great War and the Jazz Age

The Great Depression

 World War II
The Great Depression WWII Timeline
From the Great Depression to WWII WWII
Stock Market Crash WWII - Eyewitness to History
Crash of 1929 The Homefront
Great Depression Timeline Tale of Two Cites: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Great Depression Quiz Dwight D. Eisenhower
Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover Eleanor Roosevelt
The New Deal Adolf Hitler
  George Patton
Civil Rights

The Cold War Era
Civil Rights Timeline Cuban Missle Crisis
Civil Rights Videos - History Channel Korean War
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Korean War
Civil Rights Timeline - CNN Vietnam War
Civil Rights Era Vietnam War
Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and Demonstrations Fall of the Berlin Wall
Brown v. the Board of Education Cold War Museum
The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott  
Rosa Parks - Includes link to information on the Boycott  
Martin Luther King, Jr.