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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. Whose tea was it?
  2. 2. Why did the colonists dump the tea?
  3. 3. What does this text not tell you about the people who dumped the tea?
2.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. Whose camp did James Armistead work in as a spy?
  3. 3. What does this text not tell you about his life after 1787?

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Answer key — Evidence From the Revolution

Set 3. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The East India Company's. 2. To protest a tax on tea passed by Parliament, where they had no representatives. 3. It does not tell you their names or how many of them there were.
  2. 2.1. Freedom was not given to everyone who served; he had to wait until 1787. 2. The camp of the British general Cornwallis. 3. It does not tell you what he did after he was freed.

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