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Grade 5 American Revolution Investigations
Welcome to Grade 5 American Revolution Investigations
Becoming A Detective - What's the American Revolution?
A. Would the American Revolution have succeeded without Connecticut?
1. Provisions
2. People
Arnold, Benedict
Bissell, Israel or Isaac Bissell?
Deane, Silas
Denslow, Martin
Ellsworth, Oliver
Hale, Captain Nathan
Howard, Nathaniel
Humphreys, General David
Huntington, General Samuel (First President of Congress)
Knowlton, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas
Ludington, Sybil
Putnam, General Israel
Sherman, Roger
Trumbull, Jonathan
Webb, Joseph Jr.
Wolcott, Oliver
3. Events
Attack on Danbury and The Warning
Battle of Ridgefield
Burning of New London
Culper Spy Ring
George Washington in Connecticut
Lebanon Green
4. Documents
A. Images of Lexington & Concord, 1775 (Amos Doolittle)
B. Payment to Israel Putnam
C. George Washington's Writings to Continental Congress, November 1778
D. Nathaniel Hayden Jr., Provisions List, 1780
E. Letter from Henry Knox to George Washington, 1782
B. Who is missing from traditional accounts of the American Revolution?
1. What can we learn from images about the people of the American Revolution?
2. Who lived in Colonial America and make predictions.
3A. Native Americans
3B. African Americans
3C. Women
4. "Missing Persons" Reflection
C. How does each battle shape the outcome of the Revolutionary War?
1. Choose a quote (battle) from the 20 quotes and make predictions
2. Battle Research
3. Battle Reflection
To Learn More . . .
Grade 5 American Revolution Investigations
4. "Missing Persons" Reflection
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