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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.Enslaved people sang spirituals. What did many of these songs express?
  • A.Instructions for planting cotton
  • B.Faith and the hope of freedom
  • C.Thanks to the people who enslaved them
2.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 never seen slavery
  • C.He had lived in slavery himself
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.George Catlin painted the Plains nations in the 1830s. Why did he say he painted them?
  • A.He was paid by the railroad to sell tickets
  • B.He wanted to show that no one lived on the Plains
  • C.He believed westward expansion threatened their ways of life
5.British soldiers sang Yankee Doodle to make fun of the colonists. What did the Patriots do?
  • A.Sang it proudly as their own song
  • B.Sent it to the king as a gift
  • C.Banned the song in every colony
6.Photographs from Mathew Brady's studio showed dead soldiers after Civil War battles. Why did they shock people?
  • A.They were the first photographs of anything
  • B.They showed the war had ended
  • C.Most Americans had never seen the real results of a battle
7.Paul Revere's 1770 engraving shows British soldiers firing on calm colonists. Why did he show it that way?
  • A.To praise the British army
  • B.To turn colonists against the British soldiers
  • C.To show exactly what a camera would have seen
8.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

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Answer key — Songs and Paintings From American History

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  1. 1.Faith and the hope of freedom
  2. 2.He had lived in slavery himself
  3. 3.It turned many Northern readers against slavery
  4. 4.He believed westward expansion threatened their ways of life
  5. 5.Sang it proudly as their own song
  6. 6.Most Americans had never seen the real results of a battle
  7. 7.To turn colonists against the British soldiers
  8. 8.The hardship of the Great Depression

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