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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 Harlem Renaissance
  • B.The Gold Rush
  • C.The New Deal
2.Enslaved people sang spirituals. What did many of these songs express?
  • A.Thanks to the people who enslaved them
  • B.Instructions for planting cotton
  • C.Faith and the hope of freedom
3.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
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.Jacob Lawrence painted a series of 60 panels in 1940 and 1941. What did they show?
  • A.The Gold Rush in California
  • B.The Boston Tea Party
  • C.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
6.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
7.In 1845 Frederick Douglass published the story of his own life. Why was it powerful evidence?
  • A.He had lived in slavery himself
  • B.He had never seen slavery
  • C.It was written by a plantation owner
8.The painting Washington Crossing the Delaware was made in 1851, 75 years after the crossing. What does that tell you?
  • A.It is a photograph of the event
  • B.The painter was in the boat
  • C.The painter was not there and imagined much of the scene

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Answer key — Songs and Paintings From American History

Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.The Harlem Renaissance
  2. 2.Faith and the hope of freedom
  3. 3.Sang it proudly as their own song
  4. 4.The hardship of the Great Depression
  5. 5.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
  6. 6.He believed westward expansion threatened their ways of life
  7. 7.He had lived in slavery himself
  8. 8.The painter was not there and imagined much of the scene

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