Guam
5th Grade
State Standards
Standard 5: Economics - Students learn about the concepts of production, distribution, and consumption of goods and resources.
5.5.1: Explain the causes of the establishment of slavery in North America, the harsh conditions of the Middle Passage and slave life, and the responses of slaves to their condition.
5.5.2: Describe how the different economies and cultures of the North and South contributed to the growing importance of sectional politics in the early 19th century.