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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.British soldiers sang Yankee Doodle to make fun of the colonists. What did the Patriots do?
  • A.Sent it to the king as a gift
  • B.Sang it proudly as their own song
  • C.Banned the song in every colony
2.Dorothea Lange's 1936 photograph Migrant Mother shows a tired mother and her children. What time does it reflect?
  • A.The wealth of the 1920s
  • B.The American Revolution
  • C.The hardship of the Great Depression
3.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 Gold Rush
  • B.The New Deal
  • C.The Harlem Renaissance
4.Norman Rockwell's 1964 painting shows a young Black girl walking to school between federal marshals. Whose story does it tell?
  • A.Ruby Bridges's
  • B.Harriet Tubman's
  • C.Rosa Parks's
5.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
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.The painting Washington Crossing the Delaware was made in 1851, 75 years after the crossing. What does that tell you?
  • A.The painter was not there and imagined much of the scene
  • B.The painter was in the boat
  • C.It is a photograph of the event
8.Enslaved people sang spirituals. What did many of these songs express?
  • A.Thanks to the people who enslaved them
  • B.Faith and the hope of freedom
  • C.Instructions for planting cotton

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Answer key — Songs and Paintings From American History

Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Sang it proudly as their own song
  2. 2.The hardship of the Great Depression
  3. 3.The Harlem Renaissance
  4. 4.Ruby Bridges's
  5. 5.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
  6. 6.To turn colonists against the British soldiers
  7. 7.The painter was not there and imagined much of the scene
  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.