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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 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 Harlem Renaissance
  • C.The Gold Rush
2.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
3.Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) showed the cruelty of slavery. What effect did it have?
  • A.It made slavery more popular in the North
  • B.It turned many Northern readers against slavery
  • C.Nobody read it until 1950
4.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 wealth of the 1920s
  • C.The American Revolution
5.Photographs from Mathew Brady's studio showed dead soldiers after Civil War battles. Why did they shock people?
  • A.They showed the war had ended
  • B.Most Americans had never seen the real results of a battle
  • C.They were the first photographs of anything
6.In 1845 Frederick Douglass published the story of his own life. Why was it powerful evidence?
  • A.It was written by a plantation owner
  • B.He had lived in slavery himself
  • C.He had never seen slavery
7.Jacob Lawrence painted a series of 60 panels in 1940 and 1941. What did they show?
  • A.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
  • B.The Gold Rush in California
  • C.The Boston Tea Party
8.Enslaved people sang spirituals. What did many of these songs express?
  • A.Faith and the hope of freedom
  • B.Thanks to the people who enslaved them
  • C.Instructions for planting cotton

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Answer key — Songs and Paintings From American History

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.The Harlem Renaissance
  2. 2.He believed westward expansion threatened their ways of life
  3. 3.It turned many Northern readers against slavery
  4. 4.The hardship of the Great Depression
  5. 5.Most Americans had never seen the real results of a battle
  6. 6.He had lived in slavery himself
  7. 7.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
  8. 8.Faith and the hope of freedom

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