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Revolutionary War - Activities

This section provides hundreds of online and printable American Revolution activities and resources.

Who is Your Founding Father?

Description: In this innovative game, students determine the "Founding Father" by evaluating the accomplishments of Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton on a significance scale of 1-10. As students evaluate each accomplishment, the "father" responsible for the accomplishment moves forward. For example, if a statement such as "How significant is it that this person wrote the Declaration Independence?" appears, and the student judges it "9," Thomas Jefferson would move forward nine steps.

Abigail Adams Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This online cloze reading exercise requires students to type the words from the word bank into the correct fields in the paragraph. It gives immediate feedback.

Abigail Adams Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 282 words; LEXILE LEVEL = 1010

Abigail Adams Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a biographical passage on Abigail Adams and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 282 words; LEXILE LEVEL = 1010

Alexander Hamilton Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This online cloze reading exercise requires students to type the words from the word bank into the correct fields in the paragraph. It gives immediate feedback.

Alexander Hamilton Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Alexander Hamilton Scavenger Hunt

Description: This scavenger hunt is designed for use with the Alexander Hamilton biography.

Alexander Hamilton - $10 Bill Coloring

Description: This is a beautiful coloring page featuring the Alexander Hamilton $10 bill.

Baron von Steuben Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 268 words; LEXILE = 810

Baron von Steuben Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.

Benjamin Franklin Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Benjamin Franklin Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight multiple choice and fill-in-the-blanks questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Benjamin Franklin Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 177 Words; LEXILE = 810

Benjamin Franklin Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Benjamin Franklin Cloze Reading

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Benjamin Franklin and Colonial Printing - Video

Description: This video describes Benjamin Franklin's colonial printing enterprise

Ben Franklin's Quarter

Description: This activity explains Franklin's preference for the wild turkey as America's national symbol and requires students to redesign the back of the quarter according to Franklin's wishes. Great Thanksgiving exercise!

The Franklin Shield

Description: This fun social studies activity requires students to create a Franklin family shield based on the many accomplishments of Benjamin.

Ben Franklin Discovers Electricity

Description: This is an historical account of Franklin's famous kite experiment.

The Last Conversation Between Ben and William Franklin

Description: This activity requires students to pen dialogues between William (Ben's loyalist son and royal governor of New Jersey) and Benjamin (a Patriot). Students should demonstrate their knowledge of Loyalist and Patriot sentiments through the dialogue.

Continental Army Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. Revolutionary War. George Washington. American Revolution. PASSAGE LENGTH: 396 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Continental Army Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 396 Words; LEXILE: 1110 This activity features a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions on Molly Pitcher (Lexile 1100). Answers are provided. *New - if you need an easier version of the Continental Army reading comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom and click "easier".

Continental Congress Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Conway Cabal Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. George Washington. Thomas Conway. Horatio Gates

Continental Congress Reading Comprehension

Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. *New - if you need an easier version of the Continental Congress reading comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom and click "easier".

Conway Cabal Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. * *New - if you need an easier version of the Conway Cabal reading comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom and click "easier".

Declaration of Independence Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This American Revolution/Revolutionary War resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 267 Words; LEXILE = 1110

Declaration of Independence Reading Comprehension

Description: This American Revolution/Revolutionary War resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 267 Words; LEXILE = 1110

The Four Dollar Declaration of Independence

Description: This fun story-writing prompt tells the story of a Philadelphia man who found an original copy of the Declaration of Independence behind an old painting that he bought for $4.00. The prompt challenges students to tell a similar tale of how they find a valuable historical artifact in an improbable place.

Federalist Papers Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage andseven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Federalist Papers Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.

Federalists versus Republicans Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Federalists versus Republicans Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 237 Words; LEXILE: 1210

George Washington Cloze Reading

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

George Mason Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This online cloze reading exercise requires students to type the words from the word bank into the correct fields in the paragraph. It gives immediate feedback.

George Washington Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

George Washington Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 173 Words; LEXILE = 810

George Washington Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 173 Words; LEXILE = 810

George Washington Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

George Washington Paralaugh

Description: Create a hilarious story about George Washington by adding nouns, verbs, and adjectives. This is the Mr. Nussbaum version of a mad lib.

George Washington $1 Bill Coloring

Description: This is a beautiful outline of a U.S. $1 Bill for students to color

Mt. Vernon Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions.

George Washington Myths Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and five multiple choice questions.

Washington Crosses the Delaware - What were the soldiers REALLY thinking?

Description: This fun activities allows students to have a bit of fun with Leutze's famous depiction of Washington crossing the icy Delaware River in 1776.

The Hessians Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. Perfect for American Revolution learning. PASSAGE LENGTH = 378 Words; LEXILE = 910 *New - if you need an easier version of the Hessians reading comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom and click "easier".

The Hessians Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. Perfect for American Revolution learning. PASSAGE LENGTH = 378 Words; LEXILE = 910

James Armistead Lafayette Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This online cloze reading exercise requires students to type the words from the word bank into the correct fields in the paragraph. It gives immediate feedback.

John Adams Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 448 Words; LEXILE: 1110

John Adams Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a biographical passage and seven multiple choice questions PASSAGE LENGTH: 448 Words; LEXILE: 1110 *New - if you need an easier version of the John Adams reading comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom and click "easier".

King George III Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This online cloze reading exercise requires students to type the words from the word bank into the correct fields in the paragraph. It gives immediate feedback.

A Signature to Remember - John Hancock

Description: This American Revolution/Revolutionary War activity tells the story of the iconic John Hancock signature on the Declaration of Independence and then challenges students to come up with their own, creative signature.

Marquis de Lafayette Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. *New - if you need an easier version of the Marquis de Lafayette reading comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom and click "easier".

Marquis de Lafayette Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Marquis de Lafayette Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This online cloze reading exercise requires students to type the words from the word bank into the correct fields in the paragraph. It gives immediate feedback.

Molly Pitcher Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a detailed passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 291 Words; LEXILE: 1010

Molly Pitcher Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 291 Words; LEXILE: 1010

Nathan Hale Reading Comprehension

Description: This activity features a short biographical passage followed by seven multiple choice questions. *New - if you need an easier version of the Nathan Hale reading comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom and click "easier".

Noble Train of Artillery Reading Comprehension (Henry Knox's miracle)

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 478 Words; LEXILE: 1010 * New - IF you need an easier version of the Noble Train of Artillery Reading Comprehension, scroll to the bottom of the page and click it.

Noble Train of Artillery Reading Comprehension (Henry Knox's miracle) - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 478 Words; LEXILE: 1010

Not Boring Jeopardy - American Revolution Edition

Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on the American Revolution. It's super fun for classrooms, individuals, or small teams, totally customizable. Uncheck "teams take turns" to make it more exciting for kids.

Sons of Liberty Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 373 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Sons of Liberty Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 373 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Thomas Paine Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

Thomas Paine Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Thomas Paine Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This online cloze reading exercise requires students to type the words from the word bank into the correct fields in the paragraph. It gives immediate feedback.

Thomas Jefferson Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 250 Words; LEXILE: 810

Thomas Jefferson Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 250 Words; LEXILE: 810

Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.

Thomas Jefferson $2 Bill Coloring Sheet

Description: This is a beautiful outline of the American $2 Bill featuring Thomas Jefferson. Perfect for coloring.

Tic Tac DOUGH - American Revolution Edition

Description: Modeled after the 1970s game show, TIC TAC Dough requires students to get 1,000 points, or, score "tic" and "tac" by choose a panel between 1-9 and answering multiple choice questions about the Revolutionary War. Behind each panel is a number panel, the word "tic", the word "tac" or the dreaded dragon. If a student picks the panel with the dragon, the game is automatically over - just like the real gameshow.

Phillis Wheatley Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 420 Words; LEXILE: 810

Phillis Wheatley Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 420 Words; LEXILE: 810

American Revolution Timeline - Online Game

Description: This fun and challenging game requires students to correctly order revolutionary war events along the timeline. Easy and Hard levels are available. Very fun, but very challenging.

American Revolution Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

American Revolution Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Battle of Bunker Hill Reading Comprehension - Printable

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions about the Battle of Bunker Hill. *NEW - If you need an easier version of this comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom of the page and click!

Battles of Lexington and Concord Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 482 words; LEXILE = 1210 Need an easier version? Scroll to the bottom of the page and select it.

Battle of Monmouth Courthouse Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 335 Words; LEXILE = 1210

Battle of Monmouth Courthouse Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 335 Words; LEXILE = 1210 *New - if you need an easier version of the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse reading comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom and click "easier".

Battles of New York Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 444 words; LEXILE = 1210

Battles of New York Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a detailed historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 444 words; LEXILE = 1210 * New - IF you need an easier version of the Battles of New York in 1776 Reading Comprehension, scroll to the bottom of the page and click it.

Battles of Lexington and Concord Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 482 words; LEXILE = 1210

Battle of Saratoga Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 423 Words; LEXILE = 1210 *New - if you need an easier version of the Battle of Saratoga reading comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom and click "easier".

Battle of Saratoga Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 423 Words; LEXILE = 1210

Turning Point - The Battle of Saratoga

Description: This activity requires students to understand how the Battle of Saratoga was the turning point in the war and to think of explain turning points in their own lives, in sports, or in the lives of literary characters.

Battle of Trenton Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 437 Words; LEXILE = 1010

Battle of Trenton Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH = 437 Words; LEXILE = 1010

Boston Massacre Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Boston Massacre Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 534 Words; LEXILE: 910 * New - if you need an easier version of the Boston Massacre reading comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom and click "easier".

Boston Massacre Power Point Presentation

Description: This 14-slide power point presentation explains all about the Boston Massacre and its causes and effects. Perfect for American Revolution learning.

Revolutionary War Decoding

Description: This activity requires students to decode the secret message by organizing events of the American Revolution into their correct time periods. Challenging!

Revolutionary War Flags

Description: This colorful sections describes the histories of nine different flags used in the Revolutionary War. It provides full-color pictures and flag outlines for students to print and color. Perfect for reports, trifolds, and presentations.

Propaganda in Revolutionary America

Description: This activity requires students to examine the famous Paul Revere hyperbolic engraving depicting the Boston Massacre before the Revolutionary War. How was Paul Revere’s depiction of the Boston Massacre different from what really happened?

Revolutionary Figures and Social Media

Description: This fun activity challenges students to create a static social media page about their favorite revolutionary figure. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Abigail Adams.

Revolutionary War Battles Power Point Presentation

Description: This 22-slide power point presentation explains all of the important Revolutionary War Battles including Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Brooklyn Heights, White Plains, Trenton, Saratoga, Charleston, Cowpens, Yorktown, and many others.

Revolutionary War Reading Comprehension - Printable Unit

Description: This is one of the top selling MrNussbaum resources on Teachers Pay Teachers. It contains reading comprehension passages and question sets for numerous Revolutionary War topics including the Stamp Act, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Battles of Saratoga and Yorktown and many more. 35 in all. Contains exercises for most of the This is a $12.00 value, free for you with your subscription.

Rivalries - England and France

Description: This American Revolution/Revolutionary War/French and Indian War activity explains the centuries-old rivalry between England and France that shaped America's early history and then challenges students to write about a rivalry in their life, or, in sports, movies, or literature.

Siege of Charleston Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 397 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Siege of Charleston Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 397 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Siege at Yorktown Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 548 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Siege at Yorktown Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 548 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Stamp Act Vitriol - Causes of the Revolutionary War

Description: This activity illustrates the famous Emblem of the Effects of the Stamp and requires students to make their own “dreaded” stamp that could serve as a protest to homework.

Stamp Act Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 338 Words; LEXILE: 910

Stamp Act Reading Comprehension

Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 338 Words; LEXILE: 910 *New - if you need an easier version of the Stamp Act reading comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom and click "easier".

Stamp Act and No Taxation Without Representation Power Point Presentation

Description: This 20-slide power point presentation explains all the initial causes of the American Revolution. It explains the Stamp Act, what taxes are, the birth of the Sons of Liberty, No Taxation Without Representation, and Parliament's response to the chaos in Boston. Perfect for American Revolution learning.

Taxation Without Representation Reading Comprehension

Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 194 Words; LEXILE: 810

Taxation Without Representation Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 194 Words; LEXILE: 810

Valley Forge Writing Prompt - Role Play as a Continental Soldier

Description: This activity requires students to play the role of a soldier camped during the dreadful winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge. Students must use their knowledge of the conditions and morale at Valley Forge to pen a letter to a friend or family member describing the misery.

Valley Forge Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 359 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Valley Forge Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 359 Words; LEXILE: 1110 NEW - For an easier version of this reading comprehension exercise, scroll to the bottom of the page and click it.

Benedict Arnold - the Ultimate Antagonist

Description: This social studies activity requires students to compare Benedict Arnold to their favorite antagonist from literature or the movies through written expression and drawing.

Benedict Arnold Reading Comprehension Exercise and Question Set

Description: This activity requires students to read a short biography and then answer ten multiple choice questions

Benedict Arnold Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This is an interactive reading comprehension exercise with a passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Remaking Benedict Arnold

Description: This prompt requires students to examine the life of Benedict Arnold and to write a letter than attempts to redeem him in American history. The prompt ENCOURAGES students to use hyperbole, perspective, and to downplay facts not favorable to Arnold in this argument. Use the Benedict Arnold biography for background information on the steps that led Arnold to reason.

Behind the Scenes of the Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 416 words; LEXILE = 1210

Behind the Scenes of the Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH = 416 words; LEXILE = 1210

Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 377 Words; LEXILE: 910

Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension (Grades 2-4)

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions.

Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Online (Grades 2-4)

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Main Idea Focus - Online

Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Details Focus - Online

Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Contextual Vocabulary Focus - Online

Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Boston Tea Party Point Presentation

Description: This 14-slide power point presentation explains all about the Boston Tea Party, monopolies, and the Intolerable Acts. Perfect for American Revolution learning.

The Secret Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence

Description: This American Revolution/Revolutionary War parody on the Declaration of Independence require students to fix the spelling, grammar, and punctuation of the "rough" draft of Thomas Jefferson's declaration.

Fort Ticonderoga Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

Fort Ticonderoga Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 466 Words; LEXILE = 1110

Freemasons Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions.

Freemasons Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH = 367 Words; LEXILE = 1010

Join or Die

Description: This activity explains Franklin's famous "Join or Die" woodcut and requires students to think of prominent logos of today's businesses and organizations (e.g. Target, Nike etc.) and (similarly) attempt to explain the symbolism behind the logos.

Second Continental Congress Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.

Second Continental Congress Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 305 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Seqeuncing Focus - Online

Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 377 Words; LEXILE: 910

The Underdog - Writing Prompt

Description: This prompt outlines describes the concept of the underdog and how the Americans were underdogs during the Revolutionary War. Students must write about a time when they were the underdog, or, about a character in literature, movies, or sports, that won as the underdog.

Crispus Attucks Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This online cloze reading exercise requires students to type the words from the word bank into the correct fields in the paragraph. It gives immediate feedback.

Crispus Attucks Reading Comprehension

Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 360 Words; LEXILE: 910

Loyalist Sentiments

Description: This page discusses the many reasons why some Americans remained loyalists during the Revolutionary War.

Revolutionary War Events Timeline

Description: This page provides a timeline and short descriptions of the events of the Revolutionary War from 1775-1783.

Famous Images in History Jigsaw Puzzle - Boston Massacre

Description: This awesome jigsaw allows students to make their own jigsaw pieces, or, allow the program to auto-cut pieces.

Famous Images in History Jigsaw Puzzle - Join or Die

Description: This awesome jigsaw allows students to make their own jigsaw pieces, or, allow the program to auto-cut pieces.

Famous Images in History Jigsaw Puzzle - Washington's Crossing

Description: This awesome jigsaw allows students to make their own jigsaw pieces, or, allow the program to auto-cut pieces.

The Worst Rule Ever - Royal Proclamation of 1763

Description: This fun prompt requires students to relate to how the colonists must have felt after the passage of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, by writing about the worst rule they've ever had to follow.

Halls of History - Online U.S. History Game

Description: Welcome to Halls of History! This game will test your visual knowledge of American history. There are seven sections to the game, five of which cover historical eras until the Civil War, and two of which cover famous people in American history. Click on each image in history to enlarge and inspect and then answer the question associated with it. When you are done with the game, you'll get a percentage score for each section.

Boston Tea Party Paragraph Paramedics

Description: Find and correct the spelling, punctuation, and usage errors in the paragraph. Click on the error and then type in the correction. Immediate feedback is given.

The Articles of Confederation Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and eight multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. You can also print out detailed results. PASSAGE LENGTH = 283 words; LEXILE = 810

The Glaring Weakness of the Articles of Confederation - Writing Prompt

Description: This prompt outlines the major weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and requires students to choose and explain the most "glaring" weakness.

Articles of Confederation Power Point Presentation

Description: This 11-slide power point presentation explains everything you need to know about the Articles of Confederation including its purpose, weaknesses, and accomplishments.

Picture Identification - How well do you know your Founding Fathers?

Description: This fun ID exercise challenges students to identify all eight of the founding fathers pictured.

Sybil Ludington Reading Comprehension - Printable

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 385 Words; LEXILE: 910

Sybil Ludington Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. You can also print out detailed results.

George Washington Correct-me Passage - Online

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about George Washington that has nine factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Fun with Acts and Taxes - Revolutionary War

Description: This activity requires students to imagine their school institutes unjust acts against them such as the Homework Act and Cafeteria Act similar to the Stamp Act, Townshend Act, and Intolerable Acts. It then requires students to fill in the details of such acts before coming up with one of their own.

Crispus Attucks Correct-me Passage - Online

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the life of Crispus Attucks that has eight factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Crispus Attucks Fact or Fiction

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Crispus Attucks passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. The program gives immediate feedback.

Crispus Attucks Fact or Fiction - Printable

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Crispus Attucks passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Crispus Attucks and Text Elements - Paragraph headings

Description: This printable activity requires students to match the five different headings to their correct paragraphs.

Virtual History Teacher - Crispus Attucks Test

Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about the life of Crispus Attucks. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. It's designed to reinforce the importance of elaboration. Students can use the Crispus Attucks biography for reference.

Crispus Attucks Activities Bundle - All of the Crispus Attucks Printable Activities on this site

Description: This bundle is FREE for subscribers to MrN 365. It includes all seven printable activities on Crispus Attucks available on mrnussbaum.com. It is also available on Teachers Pay Teachers for $2.25. Click this link to purchase from Teachers Pay Teachers.

Alexander Hamilton Correct-me Passage - Online

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the life of Alexander Hamilton that has eight factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Phillis Wheatley Activities Bundle - All the Phillis Wheatley Activities on this site.

Description: This bundle contains five printable activities on Phillis Wheatley in a single bundle. It is free for subscribers to MrN365.com. You can also buy it on Teachers Pay Teachers for $2.25

Phillis Wheatley Fact or Fiction

Description: These activities are interactive Fact or Fiction reading comprehension exercises that combine informational text with critical thinking questions. Students read a historical passage, then determine whether each statement is factual or fictional, using tools like text highlighting, annotation, read-aloud, and printable score reports to enhance engagement and understanding.

Phillis Wheatley Fact or Fiction - Printable

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Phillis Wheatley passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Phillis Wheatley Main Idea and Supporting Detail Sentences - Printable

Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are seven total sentences.

Alexander Hamilton Fact or Fiction - Online

Description: This fun activity requires students to read an Alexander Hamilton passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. It gives immediate feedback.

Alexander Hamilton Fact or Fiction - Printable

Description: This fun activity requires students to read an Alexander Hamilton passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Alexander Hamilton Main Idea and Supporting Sentences

Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are eight total sentences.

Alexander Hamilton Text Elements - Paragraph Headings

Description: This printable activity requires students to match seven different headings to their correct paragraphs.

Alexander Hamilton Writing Prompt: Settling the Score

Description: This prompt requires students to help Hamilton and Burr find a more productive way to settle their differences instead of staging a duel.

Not Boring Jeopardy - Founding Fathers Edition

Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on United States Founding Fathers. It's super fun for classrooms, individuals, or small teams, totally customizable. Uncheck "teams take turns" to make it more exciting for kids.

Alexander Hamilton Activities Bundle - All of the Hamilton Printable Activities on This Site

Description: This bundle includes all of the printable Alexander Hamilton activities on this site.

The Hutchinson Affair Reading Comprehension - Printable

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions.

Benjamin Franklin Fact or Fiction - Printable

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Benjamin Franklin passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Benjamin Franklin Fact or Fiction - Online

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Benjamin Franklin passage and then, to sort 12 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. It gives immediate feedback.

Benjamin Franklin Correct-me Passage

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the life of Ben Franklin that has ten factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Benjamin Franklin Topic Sentence and Supporting Details

Description: This activity requires students to determine which sentences belong in the paragraph with the given topic sentence. Then, they must order the sentences correctly to form the paragraph.

Benjamin Franklin Activities Bundle - All of the Printable Benjamin Franklin Activities on the Site

Description: This activity includes all of the printable Benjamin Franklin activities on the site.

Boston Massacre Fact or Fiction - Printable

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Boston Massacre passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Boston Massacre Fact or Fiction - Online

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Boston Massacre passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. The program gives immediate feedback.

Virtual History Teacher - Grading a Boston Massacre Test

Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about the Boston Massacre. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Boston Massacre narrative for reference.

Boston Massacre Activities Bundles - All of the Printable Activities on the Boston Massacre from mrnussbaum.com

Description: The package contains all of the printable Boston Massacre material on mrnussbaum.com

Boston Tea Party Correct-me Passage

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the Boston Tea Party that has eight factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Boston Tea Party Fact or Fiction - Online

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Boston Massacre passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. The program gives immediate feedback.

Boston Tea Party Fact or Fiction - Printable

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Boston Tea Party passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

The Tolerable Acts - Having Fun With the Intolerable Acts

Description: Students play the role as a member of Parliament who has serious concerns about the Intolerable Act. Instead, he or she argues that England should make immediate peace with the colonies by issuing a set of acts designed to reward them called the “Tolerable Acts.” Students must think of five acts that reward the colonists (such as Parliament erecting a statue of George Washington in front of Buckingham Palace).

Unfair Punishments - A Boston Tea Party Writing Prompt

Description: This writing prompts requires students to relate to the unfair punishments issued to the American colonists after the Boston Tea Party by detailing the most unfair punishment they've ever experienced, and the reasons why they were punished.

Virtual History Teacher - Grading a Boston Tea Party Test

Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about the Boston Tea Party. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Boston Tea Party narrative for reference.

The Battle of Newport Reading Comprehension - Printable

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

The Battle of Princeton Reading Comprehension - Printable

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Battle of Vincennes Reading Comprehension - Printable

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Battle of Brandywine Reading Comprehension - Printable

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

George Washington Activities Bundle - 15 Printable George Washington Activities from MrNussbaum.com

Description: This packet contains all 15 of the printable George Washington activities on MrNussbaum.com

Comparing and Contrasting Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Description: This activity requires students to compare and contrast Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Students must evaluate ten statements to determine if each is associated with Jefferson, Madison, or both.

Thomas Jefferson Activities Bundle -16 Printable Thomas Jefferson Activities from MrNussbaum.com

Description: This packet contains all of the printable Thomas Jefferson activities on MrNussbaum.com

Old North Church United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This is a beautiful coloring page that features an authentic 24 cent Old North Church postage stamp.

Alexander Hamilton United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This is a beautiful coloring page that features an authentic $5 Alexander Hamilton postage stamp.

George Washington United States Postage Stamp Version 1

Description: This awesome coloring sheet features America's first postage stamp.

George Washington United States Postage Stamp Version 2

Description: This awesome coloring sheet features George Washington on a United States postage stamp.

George Washington United States Postage Stamp Version 3

Description: This awesome coloring sheet features George Washington on a United States postage stamp.

Benjamin Franklin United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This is a beautiful coloring page that features an authentic Benjamin Franklin postage stamp, which happens to be the first postage stamp in American history.

James Madison on the $5,000 bill

Description: This fun activity requires students to modernize the old $5,000 bill with James Madison on it.

James Madison United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This is a beautiful coloring page that features an authentic $2 James Madison stamp.

Nathan Hale United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This stamp honors Nathan Hale, an American spy executed by the British in 1775.

Baron Von Steuben United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This stamp honors the hero of Valley Forge, Baron Von Steuben.

Martha Washington United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This stamp honors First Lady Martha Washington.

Patrick Henry United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This stamp honors Virginia politician Patrick Henry.

The Battles of Lexington and Concord United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This stamp honors the 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This stamp honors the improbable American victory at Saratoga during the Revolutionary War.

Betsy Ross and the Creation of the American Flag United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This stamp honors Betsy Ross and the creation of the American flag.

Sybil Ludington United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This beautiful coloring page features a postage stamp commemorating Connecticut's Sybil Ludington.

Boston Massacre United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This is a coloring page featuring Paul Revere's famous "Bloody Massacre" woodcut.

Boston Tea Party United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This is a coloring page featuring the 200th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party United States Coloring Page

The Battles of Lexington and Concord United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page Version 2

Description: This stamp honors the 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Ms. Information Games - Causes of the Revolutionary War

Description: Ms. Information is traveling the country trying to re-write history with her false information! Can you stop her? She has traveled to Philadelphia change the story of the events leading to the Revolutionary War. Use your knowledge of these causes to foil her plan once and for all!

Benjamin Franklin Digital Centers - by Computer Mice

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Ben Franklin in a single resource. Students can conduct research , fill out graphic organizers and Venn diagrams, write e-books with pictures, conduct interviews, determine fact or opinion, play games, and much, much more! If you're teaching about Ben Franklin, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

Paul Revere Digital Centers - by Computer Mice

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Paul Revere in a single resource. Students can conduct research , fill out graphic organizers and Venn diagrams, write e-books with pictures, conduct interviews, determine fact or opinion, play games, and much, much more! If you're teaching about Paul Revere, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

Thomas Jefferson Digital Centers - by Computer Mice

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Thomas Jefferson in a single resource. Students can conduct research , fill out graphic organizers and Venn diagrams, write e-books with pictures, conduct interviews, determine fact or opinion, play games, and much, much more! If you're teaching about Thomas Jefferson, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

Benedict Arnold Digital Centers - by Computer Mice

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Benedict Arnold in a single resource. Students can conduct research , fill out graphic organizers and Venn diagrams, write e-books with pictures, conduct interviews, determine fact or opinion, play games, and much, much more! If you're teaching about Benedict Arnold , you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

James Madison Digital Centers - by Computer Mice

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on James Madison in a single resource. Students can conduct research , fill out graphic organizers and Venn diagrams, write e-books with pictures, conduct interviews, determine fact or opinion, play games, and much, much more! If you're teaching about James Madison, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

John Adams Digital Centers - by Computer Mice

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on John Adams in a single resource. Students can conduct research , fill out graphic organizers and Venn diagrams, write e-books with pictures, conduct interviews, determine fact or opinion, play games, and much, much more! If you're teaching about James Madison, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

King George III Digital Centers - by Computer Mice

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on King George III in a single resource. Students can conduct research , fill out graphic organizers and Venn diagrams, write e-books with pictures, conduct interviews, determine fact or opinion, play games, and much, much more! If you're teaching about King George III, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

Patrick Henry Digital Centers - by Computer Mice

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Patrick Henry in a single resource. Students can conduct research , fill out graphic organizers and Venn diagrams, write e-books with pictures, conduct interviews, determine fact or opinion, play games, and much, much more! If you're teaching about Patrick Henry, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

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