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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 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
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.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
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 Gold Rush
  • B.The Harlem Renaissance
  • C.The New Deal
5.Enslaved people sang spirituals. What did many of these songs express?
  • A.Instructions for planting cotton
  • B.Faith and the hope of freedom
  • C.Thanks to the people who enslaved them
6.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.They were the first photographs of anything
  • C.Most Americans had never seen the real results of a battle
7.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.Banned the song in every colony
  • C.Sent it to the king as a gift
8.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

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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.It turned many Northern readers against slavery
  3. 3.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
  4. 4.The Harlem Renaissance
  5. 5.Faith and the hope of freedom
  6. 6.Most Americans had never seen the real results of a battle
  7. 7.Sang it proudly as their own song
  8. 8.The hardship of the Great Depression

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