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Songs and Paintings From American History is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on how art, music and writing reflected their times, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D2.His.5.3-5. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Songs and Paintings From American History

D2.His.5.3-5

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1.In 1845 Frederick Douglass published the story of his own life. Why was it powerful evidence?
  • A.He had never seen slavery
  • B.It was written by a plantation owner
  • C.He had lived in slavery himself
2.Dorothea Lange's 1936 photograph Migrant Mother shows a tired mother and her children. What time does it reflect?
  • A.The hardship of the Great Depression
  • B.The American Revolution
  • C.The wealth of the 1920s
3.The painting Washington Crossing the Delaware was made in 1851, 75 years after the crossing. What does that tell you?
  • A.The painter was in the boat
  • B.The painter was not there and imagined much of the scene
  • C.It is a photograph of the event
4.Jacob Lawrence painted a series of 60 panels in 1940 and 1941. What did they show?
  • A.The Boston Tea Party
  • B.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
  • C.The Gold Rush in California
5.Norman Rockwell's 1964 painting shows a young Black girl walking to school between federal marshals. Whose story does it tell?
  • A.Harriet Tubman's
  • B.Rosa Parks's
  • C.Ruby Bridges's
6.Photographs from Mathew Brady's studio showed dead soldiers after Civil War battles. Why did they shock people?
  • A.Most Americans had never seen the real results of a battle
  • B.They were the first photographs of anything
  • C.They showed the war had ended
7.In the 1920s Black writers, musicians and artists made Harlem, in New York City, a center of the arts. What is this called?
  • A.The New Deal
  • B.The Gold Rush
  • C.The Harlem Renaissance
8.George Catlin painted the Plains nations in the 1830s. Why did he say he painted them?
  • A.He believed westward expansion threatened their ways of life
  • B.He wanted to show that no one lived on the Plains
  • C.He was paid by the railroad to sell tickets

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Answer key — Songs and Paintings From American History

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  1. 1.He had lived in slavery himself
  2. 2.The hardship of the Great Depression
  3. 3.The painter was not there and imagined much of the scene
  4. 4.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
  5. 5.Ruby Bridges's
  6. 6.Most Americans had never seen the real results of a battle
  7. 7.The Harlem Renaissance
  8. 8.He believed westward expansion threatened their ways of life

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.His.5.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.