U.S. History Workbook for Grades 5-8: 1877 Through Modern America

Make modern U.S. history finally connect for middle schoolers—with a workbook that shows how America changed from 1877 to the modern era.

This engaging U.S. history workbook helps students in grades 5–8 understand how industrialization, immigration, reform, war, civil rights, technology, and political change transformed the United States from the end of Reconstruction through 2020.

Rather than treating modern history as a long list of presidents, wars, and dates, this book helps students see how events connect. Clear readings, maps, timelines, primary sources, and hands-on activities show how one era grew out of another: from the rise of big business and expanding cities to the world wars, the Great Depression, the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the challenges of a new century.

What’s inside:

• 12 full chapters covering The New South and the Color Line; The West Transformed; Industry, Invention, and Big Business; Immigrants and the Growing City; Workers, Reformers, and the Progressive Era; America Steps onto the World Stage; Boom, Bust, and the New Deal; World War II; The Cold War; The Civil Rights Movement; War, Watergate, and a Changing America; and America in a New Century
• Short, focused readings anchored by a Key Question
• 120 key vocabulary terms with student-friendly definitions and fill-in practice
• Maps, timelines, charts, comparison activities, and graphic organizers that help students visualize where and when events happened
• Historical-thinking activities that ask students to examine evidence, compare viewpoints, identify cause and effect, and evaluate how historians know what they know
• 12 primary-source and evidence studies, including Justice Harlan’s dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, the Dawes Act, congressional testimony from an industrial worker, Jacob Riis on tenement life, Rose Schneiderman after the Triangle fire, Woodrow Wilson’s war message, Franklin Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address, Executive Order 9066, the Army-McCarthy hearings, Lyndon Johnson on voting rights, Barbara Jordan on impeachment, and modern federal data
• Comprehension checks with multiple-choice and written-response questions
• Sort-and-classify activities that help students compare events, viewpoints, causes, consequences, policies, and historical change
• A different puzzle or challenge in every chapter, including crosswords, code breakers, sequencing activities, matching challenges, and other skill-based puzzles
• Writing prompts with planning organizers, supporting-evidence boxes, vocabulary practice, and self-checks
• End-of-chapter quizzes, a cumulative Final Review Challenge, and a complete Answer Key
• History notes pages for recording important people, events, evidence, and ideas

Great for homeschool history, middle school social studies, co-ops, classroom supplements, independent study, sub plans, summer review, and students who learn best by reading, thinking, and doing.

High-contrast black-and-white maps, diagrams, historical images, and illustrations throughout. Every activity can be completed using the information and sources in the book, no internet research or special preparation required.

Book 4 in the U.S. Social Studies Workbooks for Middle School series.

• Print length ‏ : ‎ 156 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1647905249
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1647905248
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
• Reading age ‏ : ‎ 10 - 14 years
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.36 x 11 inches