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Skills available for District of Columbia fifth-grade social studies standards
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- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Civil War K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Civil War
- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Enslavement and Resistance K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Enslavement and Resistance
- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Inquiry in American History K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Inquiry in American History
- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Reconstruction and the Early Struggle for Equality K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Reconstruction and the Early Struggle for Equality
- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): The Long Civil Rights Movement K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): The Long Civil Rights Movement
- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): War and Conquest in the West K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): War and Conquest in the West
- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): World War II and Postwar US K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): World War II and Postwar US
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5 Reconstruction and the Early Struggle for Equality
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5.37 Evaluate the impact of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments on the lived experiences of formerly enslaved persons in the South, including the promise and shortcomings of each amendment.
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5.38 Analyze the early political successes of the Reconstruction era, including the election of approximately 2,000 Black Americans to local, state and national office.
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5.39 Explain the grassroots efforts by Black Americans to gain access to the American economy, political institutions, and social equality.
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5.4 Analyze the lived experiences of Black citizens after the Civil War and how laws passed after the end of slavery, such as the "Black Codes," impacted Black Americans' ability to work, vote and move in public spaces.
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5.41 Explain how white supremacist groups founded in the aftermath of emancipation, such as the Ku Klux Klan, enacted terror against Black people and also Jewish, Catholic, Latinx and Asian American communities.
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5.42 Evaluate the reasons for and impact of the Great Migration.
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5.43 Analyze the rise in Black art, music, literature, businesses and queer culture in the Black Renaissance period including but not limited to Harlem and DC (e.g., Black Broadway).