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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

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1.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
2.Paul Revere's 1770 engraving shows British soldiers firing on calm colonists. Why did he show it that way?
  • A.To turn colonists against the British soldiers
  • B.To praise the British army
  • C.To show exactly what a camera would have seen
3.Jacob Lawrence painted a series of 60 panels in 1940 and 1941. What did they show?
  • A.The Gold Rush in California
  • B.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
  • C.The Boston Tea Party
4.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
5.Norman Rockwell's 1964 painting shows a young Black girl walking to school between federal marshals. Whose story does it tell?
  • A.Rosa Parks's
  • B.Ruby Bridges's
  • C.Harriet Tubman's
6.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 hardship of the Great Depression
  • C.The American Revolution
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 not there and imagined much of the scene
  • C.The painter was in the boat
8.In 1845 Frederick Douglass published the story of his own life. Why was it powerful evidence?
  • A.He had never seen slavery
  • B.He had lived in slavery himself
  • C.It was written by a plantation owner

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Answer key — Songs and Paintings From American History

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  1. 1.Most Americans had never seen the real results of a battle
  2. 2.To turn colonists against the British soldiers
  3. 3.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
  4. 4.The Harlem Renaissance
  5. 5.Ruby Bridges's
  6. 6.The hardship of the Great Depression
  7. 7.The painter was not there and imagined much of the scene
  8. 8.He had lived in slavery himself

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