5th Grade · Full-year course · 4 units
History
Week 1 is free. Tap Week 1. The reading and the problems are on that lesson. Weeks 2–36 open with a Life Academy plan ($35/month per student or $69/month per family (up to 4 students)).
Unit 1: Foundations
Weeks 1–9Week 1Early 1800s United States: map of states and territoriesWeek 2Market revolution: canals, cotton, and factoriesWeek 3Andrew Jackson and Indian Removal Act (1830) — the text and the TrailWeek 4Texas, Oregon, Mexican-American War — dates and maps, not slogansWeek 5California Gold Rush (1848–49): migration and Native/Mexican CaliforniansWeek 6Slavery as law and labor: Constitution's compromises and the cotton economyWeek 7Abolitionists: Douglass, Garrison, Tubman — documents, not mascotsWeek 8Women's rights: Seneca Falls (1848) Declaration of Sentiments excerptWeek 9Sectionalism: tariffs, territories, and the fugitive-slave crisis
Unit 2: Building fluency
Weeks 10–18Week 10Compromise of 1850 and Kansas–Nebraska — why 'balance' failedWeek 11Lincoln's election (1860) and secession — chronologyWeek 12Civil War (1861–1865): Union, Confederacy, major turning pointsWeek 13Emancipation as a war measure, then the 13th Amendment (1865)Week 14Gettysburg Address (1863): what it actually arguesWeek 15Home front: women, industry, and dissentWeek 16Reconstruction: 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments — the wordsWeek 17Backlash: Black Codes, violence, and the end of Reconstruction (1877)Week 18Midyear: 1830–1877 documents battery
Unit 3: Depth & application
Weeks 19–27Week 19Industrial United States: rail, steel, oil — facts of scaleWeek 20Immigration 1880–1920: who came, where they lived, nativism as a factWeek 21Labor and cities: hours, tenements, and reformersWeek 22Populists and Progressives: what they wanted in writingWeek 23Spanish-American War (1898) and overseas powerWeek 24World War I and the U.S. (1917–1918): reasons Congress declared warWeek 251920s: cars, radio, and the 19th Amendment (1920)Week 26Great Depression: unemployment as a number, New Deal as programsWeek 27World War II U.S. (1941–1945): Pearl Harbor, two theaters, home front
Unit 4: Mastery & showcase
Weeks 28–36Week 28Japanese American incarceration: Executive Order 9066 as a documentWeek 29United Nations (1945) and a bipolar Cold War previewWeek 30Civil Rights movement documents: Brown (1954), March on Washington (1963)Week 31Citizenship: how a bill, a court case, and an amendment differWeek 32Local civics: school board, city council, a real agenda itemWeek 33Primary anthology: five U.S. documents from this year's stackWeek 34Thematic essay: expansion, slavery, and unionWeek 35Oral defense: Reconstruction amendments in your own wordsWeek 36Grade 5 history portfolio: 1800–1965 timeline with sources