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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.

The Boston Tea Party

An information text written for this worksheet. On the night of December 16, 1773, a group of colonists, some dressed as Mohawk people, boarded three ships in Boston Harbor. They dumped 342 chests of tea belonging to the East India Company into the water. They were protesting a tax on tea passed by Parliament in London, where the colonists had no representatives. In 1774 Parliament punished Boston by closing its harbor until the tea was paid for. Other colonies sent food and supplies to help the people of Boston.

  1. 1. Why did the colonists dump the tea?
  2. 2. Whose tea was it?
  3. 3. Why did Parliament close Boston Harbor in 1774?
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. Whom does Abigail Adams ask her husband to remember?
  2. 2. Why did Abigail Adams send this request to John Adams in particular?
  3. 3. How does she want the new laws to treat women?

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Answer key — Evidence From the Revolution

Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. To protest a tax on tea passed by Parliament, where they had no representatives. 2. The East India Company's. 3. To punish Boston until the tea was paid for.
  2. 2.1. The Ladies. 2. He was a member of the Continental Congress, which she supposed would make the new Code of Laws. 3. To be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.

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