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Evidence From the Revolution is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on using letters and accounts as evidence about the Revolution, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D2.His.16.3-5. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Evidence From the Revolution

D2.His.16.3-5

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Read each source, then answer the questions.

1.Look at the source, then answer the questions.

James Armistead Lafayette, Spy

An information text written for this worksheet. James Armistead was an enslaved man in Virginia. In 1781 he volunteered to serve under the Marquis de Lafayette, a French general fighting for the Americans. Pretending to be a runaway, he worked in the camp of the British general Cornwallis and sent back reports on British plans. His reports helped Washington and Lafayette trap the British army at Yorktown in October 1781. After the war he was still enslaved, because Virginia freed enslaved soldiers but not spies. In 1787, after Lafayette wrote a letter praising his service, the Virginia legislature freed him. He took the name James Armistead Lafayette.

  1. 1. What does his story suggest about the freedom the Revolution promised?
  2. 2. What does this text not tell you about his life after 1787?
  3. 3. Where did his reports help trap the British army?
2.Look at the source, then answer the questions.

Winter at Valley Forge

An information text written for this worksheet. In December 1777 George Washington's Continental Army camped for the winter at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The soldiers built more than 1,500 log huts. Many of them had no shoes, few blankets and too little food. Nearly 2,000 soldiers died that winter, most of them from disease. In February 1778 Friedrich von Steuben, an officer from Prussia, arrived and soon began drilling the soldiers to march and fight together. In June 1778 the army marched out of Valley Forge better trained than when it arrived.

  1. 1. What did Friedrich von Steuben do?
  2. 2. What does this text not tell you about the soldiers' own feelings?
  3. 3. Why did so many soldiers suffer that winter?

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Answer key — Evidence From the Revolution

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  1. 1.1. Freedom was not given to everyone who served; he had to wait until 1787. 2. It does not tell you what he did after he was freed. 3. At Yorktown in October 1781.
  2. 2.1. He drilled the soldiers to march and fight together. 2. It does not tell you what the soldiers themselves thought or wrote about the winter. 3. Many had no shoes, few blankets and too little food.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.His.16.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.