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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. Whose camp did James Armistead work in as a spy?
  2. 2. Where did his reports help trap the British army?
  3. 3. Why was he still enslaved after the war?
2.Look at the source, then answer the questions.

Abigail Adams Writes to John Adams

From a letter Abigail Adams wrote on March 31, 1776, to her husband John Adams, who was in Philadelphia as a member of the Continental Congress. …in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.

  1. 1. What does the letter suggest about how laws treated women in 1776?
  2. 2. What does this letter not tell you?
  3. 3. Why did Abigail Adams send this request to John Adams in particular?

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Answer key — Evidence From the Revolution

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  1. 1.1. The camp of the British general Cornwallis. 2. At Yorktown in October 1781. 3. Virginia freed enslaved soldiers but not spies.
  2. 2.1. The laws were not generous to women, so she asked for a new Code of Laws that would be. 2. It does not tell you whether John Adams or the Congress did what she asked. 3. He was a member of the Continental Congress, which she supposed would make the new Code of Laws.

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