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Ducksters

Ducksters: American Revolution for Kids: The Stamp Act

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the The Stamp Act. A tax the Britain placed on the American colonies eventually leading the Revolutionary War.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: American Revolution for Kids: Valley Forge

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about Valley Forge. The place where George Washington and the Continental Army spent the winter during the Revolutionary War.
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Quia

Quia: Revolutionary War Battles

For Students 3rd - 8th
Match the descriptions with the battles in these three learning games to test your knowledge of Revolutionary War battles. [Java Required]
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Ducksters

Ducksters: American Revolution for Kids: Patriots and Loyalists

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about Patriots and Loyalists during the Revolutionary War. One side wanted independence while the other wanted to remain part of Britain.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: American Revolution for Kids: Glossary and Terms

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn the Glossary and Terms from the Revolutionary War including patriot, loyalist, colony, volley, whig, tory, and more.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: American Revolution for Kids: Fort Ticonderoga

For Students 3rd - 6th
Kids learn about the battles at Fort Ticonderoga during the Revolutionary War including the Green Mountain Boys and General John Burgoyne.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: American Revolution for Kids: Crossing the Delaware

For Students 4th - 6th
Kids learn about the Crossing of the Delaware which was a major turning point in the Revolutionary War. Take a quiz at the end to see what you learned?
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Revolutionary War

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews prominent events from the Revolutionary Era as well as famous individuals from the time.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: American Revolution Fact Finding Game

For Teachers 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an exciting group activity you can use to review the Revolutionary War while incorporating math.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Revolutionary Period 1764 1789

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource provides information about the Revolutionary Period in America.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Road to the Revolutionary War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the main events leading up to the Revolutionary War. Discussed are the Stamp Act, the French and Indian War, and the Boston Tea Party. Student assessment items are included.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: American Revolution: Free Labor in the American Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
An essay on the make-up of the Continental Army. Soldiers came from the craftsman and laborer class. Read about the effect of their fight on the "American Revolution."
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Quiz: The American Revolution for Kids

For Students 1st - 9th
History Questions: American Revolution Quiz, Test, and WebQuest
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History Teacher

Historyteacher.net: The American Revolution: Quiz (1)

For Students 9th - 10th
This 10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and covers facts pertaining to the American Revolution.
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History Teacher

Historyteacher.net: The American Revolution: Quiz (2)

For Students 9th - 10th
10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and tests your knowledge of events pertaining to the American Revolution.
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Stephen Byrne

History for Kids: North American History

For Students 2nd - 6th
History reference page for elementary students provides an overview of early American history from the age of Columbus through the Civil War and abolition of slavery. Includes links to teacher resources.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: American Revolution for Kids: Boston Massacre

For Students 4th - 6th
Kids learn about the Boston Massacre when British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men. Take a quiz at the end to see what you learned!
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Black Past

Black Past: Lafayette, James Armistead (1760 1832)

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography of James Lafayette reveals that he was a spy during the American Revolution. He fooled the likes of Benedict Arnold and General Cornwallis of Britain!
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History of American Wars

History of American Wars: Revolutionary War Weapons

For Students 9th - 10th
Following the French and Indian War the colonists needed to replenish their supply of weapons. Many things had to fall into place for they could rearm themselves.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Poet of the American Revolution: Philip Freneau

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
One poet, Philip Freneau, incorporated the new stirrings of European Romanticism and escaped the imitativeness and vague universality of the Hartford Wits. The key to both his success and his failure was his passionately democratic...
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Ohio State University

Osu History Teaching Institute: Revolutionary War Maps

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students will compare two Primary Source maps for Boston and the surrounding area looking at accuracy and detail. Students will decide which side has the advantage then use that information to analyze the advantages of good maps vs....
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PublicBookshelf Corporation

Public Bookshelf: Alexander Mc Dougall

For Students 9th - 10th
An article on the revolutionary political activities of Boston Son of Liberty Alexander McDougall. Taken from "Our Country", published in 1877.
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Negro in the Wars of the Nation

For Students 9th - 10th
African Americans have fought proudly for our country as far back as the Revolutionary War. Christian Fleetwood gives an account of the history of African-American soldiers in the Revolutionary War to the Civil War. He cites examples of...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Lexington [Pdf]

For Teachers 8th
"Lexington" is a one page, historical fiction, reading passage about soldiers fighting in the Revolutionary War. A soldier describes the feeling of being an American. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require...

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