About this worksheet
Four events on the road to revolution open this 3-page 5th grade American history sheet. Students match the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the Declaration of Independence to lettered descriptions, such as colonists dumping 342 chests of British tea into the harbor. Two written questions follow. One asks what "No taxation without representation" meant to colonists, and the other asks students to side with the Patriots or the Loyalists in 1775. It fits C3 Framework indicators D2.His.14.3-5 and D2.His.4.3-5. The answer page gives the match letters and sample answers for both written questions.


