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SC Social Studies Standards
5-3 The learner will demonstrate an understanding of major domestic and
foreign developments that contributed to the United States’ becoming a
world power.
5-3.4 Summarize the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and the rise of big
business, including the development of monopolies; long hours; low wages;
and unsafe working conditions on men, women, and children laborers; and
resulting reform movements.
5-3.5 Explain how building cities and industries led to progressive reforms,
including labor reforms, business reforms, and Prohibition.
5-3.6 Summarize actions by the United States that contributed to the rise of this
nation as a world power, including the annexation of new territory following
the Spanish-American War and the role played by the United States in the
building of the Panama Canal and in World War I.
EXTRA CREDIT IDEAS
Please be creative in your presentation of any extra credit project. Do NOT simply print something
off the computer and hand it in for extra credit. We want to see that you learned something, so put
the information into your own words. It is wrong to plagiarize someone else’s words! This list is a
mere suggestion…you are free to include any topic related to what we are studying in this unit.
A. Research the lives of these people or group of people made famous during this period of history.
Include personal background information, but focus on what their impact was on society.
Liliuokalani
Theodore Roosevelt
Buffalo Soldiers
Rough Riders
William McKinley
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
B. The following topics may be an interest to you and your classmates:
 Spanish-American War
 Yellow fever/Malaria
 16, 17, 18, 19th Amendments
 Blue Laws
 League of Nations
 Treaty of Versailles
 Lusitania and the USS Maine
 War gardens/ Victory gardens
 Poison gas/gas masks
 Tanks/submarines
C. Research these places that are important during this period of time:
 Hawaii
 Puerto Rico
 Cuba, San Juan Hill
 Panama Canal
 Alaska
SC Social Studies Standards
5-4 The learner will demonstrate an understanding of major domestic and
foreign developments that contributed to the United States’ becoming a
world power.
5-3.7 Summarize the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and the rise of big
business, including the development of monopolies; long hours; low wages;
and unsafe working conditions on men, women, and children laborers; and
resulting reform movements.
5-3.8 Explain how building cities and industries led to progressive reforms,
including labor reforms, business reforms, and Prohibition.
5-3.9 Summarize actions by the United States that contributed to the rise of this
nation as a world power, including the annexation of new territory following
the Spanish-American War and the role played by the United States in the
building of the Panama Canal and in World War I.
EXTRA CREDIT IDEAS
Please be creative in your presentation of any extra credit project. Do NOT simply print something
off the computer and hand it in for extra credit. We want to see that you learned something, so put
the information into your own words. It is wrong to plagiarize someone else’s words! This list is a
mere suggestion…you are free to include any topic related to what we are studying in this unit.
A. Research the lives of these people or group of people made famous during this period of history.
Include personal background information, but focus on what their impact was on society.
Liliuokalani
Theodore Roosevelt
Buffalo Soldiers
Rough Riders
William McKinley
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
B. The following topics may be an interest to you and your classmates:
 Spanish-American War
 Yellow fever/Malaria
 16, 17, 18, 19th Amendments
 Blue Laws
 League of Nations
 Treaty of Versailles
 Lusitania and the USS Maine
 War gardens/ Victory gardens
 Poison gas/gas masks
 Tanks/submarines
C. Research these places that are important during this period of time:
 Hawaii
 Puerto Rico
 Cuba, San Juan Hill
 Panama Canal
 Alaska