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Understanding Timelines

A Grade 5 social studies worksheet on reading and interpreting timelines, focusing on historical events and chronological order.

Grade 5 Social studies HistoryReading a Timeline
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D2.His.3.3-5D2.His.4.3-5

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historytimelineschronologysocial studiesgrade 5
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Understanding Timelines

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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Use the timeline provided to help you answer the questions.

Look at the timeline below showing important events in US history.

1776Declaration of Independence1787US Constitution Signed1803Louisiana Purchase1861Civil War Begins1920Women's Suffrage

1. What event happened in 1803?

2. How many years passed between the signing of the US Constitution and the beginning of the Civil War?

3. Which event occurred first on the timeline?

a

Louisiana Purchase

b

Declaration of Independence

c

Civil War Begins

d

Women's Suffrage

4. The event of Women's Suffrage happened in the year  .

5. The US Constitution was signed   years before the Louisiana Purchase.

6. The Civil War began before the Declaration of Independence.

T

True

F

False

7. If a new event, the invention of the telephone, happened in 1876, where would you place it on the timeline relative to the other events?