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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.Faith and the hope of freedom
  • B.Thanks to the people who enslaved them
  • C.Instructions for planting cotton
2.Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) showed the cruelty of slavery. What effect did it have?
  • A.Nobody read it until 1950
  • B.It turned many Northern readers against slavery
  • C.It made slavery more popular in the North
3.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 was paid by the railroad to sell tickets
  • C.He wanted to show that no one lived on the Plains
4.British soldiers sang Yankee Doodle to make fun of the colonists. What did the Patriots do?
  • A.Banned the song in every colony
  • B.Sang it proudly as their own song
  • C.Sent it to the king as a gift
5.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
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.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
8.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

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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.It turned many Northern readers against slavery
  3. 3.He believed westward expansion threatened their ways of life
  4. 4.Sang it proudly as their own song
  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.Most Americans had never seen the real results of a battle

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