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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.George Catlin painted the Plains nations in the 1830s. Why did he say he painted them?
  • A.He wanted to show that no one lived on the Plains
  • B.He was paid by the railroad to sell tickets
  • C.He believed westward expansion threatened their ways of life
2.Jacob Lawrence painted a series of 60 panels in 1940 and 1941. What did they show?
  • A.The Boston Tea Party
  • B.The Gold Rush in California
  • C.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
3.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
4.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
5.In 1845 Frederick Douglass published the story of his own life. Why was it powerful evidence?
  • A.He had lived in slavery himself
  • B.It was written by a plantation owner
  • C.He had never seen slavery
6.Paul Revere's 1770 engraving shows British soldiers firing on calm colonists. Why did he show it that way?
  • A.To show exactly what a camera would have seen
  • B.To turn colonists against the British soldiers
  • C.To praise the British army
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 Harlem Renaissance
  • B.The Gold Rush
  • C.The New Deal
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

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  1. 1.He believed westward expansion threatened their ways of life
  2. 2.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
  3. 3.Most Americans had never seen the real results of a battle
  4. 4.It turned many Northern readers against slavery
  5. 5.He had lived in slavery himself
  6. 6.To turn colonists against the British soldiers
  7. 7.The Harlem Renaissance
  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.