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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 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
2.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 Harlem Renaissance
  • C.The New Deal
3.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 lived in slavery himself
  • C.He had never seen slavery
4.Photographs from Mathew Brady's studio showed dead soldiers after Civil War battles. Why did they shock people?
  • A.Most Americans had never seen the real results of a battle
  • B.They showed the war had ended
  • C.They were the first photographs of anything
5.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
6.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
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.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 show exactly what a camera would have seen
  • C.To turn colonists against the British soldiers

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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 Harlem Renaissance
  3. 3.He had lived in slavery himself
  4. 4.Most Americans had never seen the real results of a battle
  5. 5.The hardship of the Great Depression
  6. 6.It turned many Northern readers against slavery
  7. 7.The painter was not there and imagined much of the scene
  8. 8.To turn colonists against the British soldiers

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