PBS Declarations Black Americans & Revolutionary War Worksheet

Keep students watching and writing the whole way through with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet for Declarations: Black Americans and the Revolutionary War (PBS, 2026). The 15 questions follow the video in the order it plays, so students record each answer as that moment happens on screen instead of reconstructing it afterward — which holds their attention and leaves them with an organized set of notes to study from later.

Built for US History, it is a natural fit for US History and American Revolution units (grades 6-12) covering the Declaration of Independence, Lord Dunmore's Proclamation, and Black soldiers, spies, and petitioners on both sides of the war, and Black History Month programming and African American history courses, plus AP US History classes working the gap between the Declaration's language and the practice of slavery. The film runs about 56 minutes, so the sheet is built to carry a multi-day study or a longer viewing block rather than a single sitting. Use it as a full-period viewing activity, a guided companion when you hand the room to a substitute, or a focused review at the end of a unit. A complete answer key is printed on the final page, so whoever is covering the class can run it with no preparation and no background knowledge. The 1-page layout is clean and low-ink, designed to print two-sided. Everything is laid out for a low-prep class period: hand out the page, press play, and let students do the rest. The questions stay in the order the video presents them, so students can follow along without losing their place. It prints cleanly in black and white, which keeps a full class set cheap to photocopy.

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