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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.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.Harriet Tubman's
  • C.Ruby Bridges's
2.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
3.Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) showed the cruelty of slavery. What effect did it have?
  • A.It turned many Northern readers against slavery
  • B.It made slavery more popular in the North
  • C.Nobody read it until 1950
4.Enslaved people sang spirituals. What did many of these songs express?
  • A.Faith and the hope of freedom
  • B.Instructions for planting cotton
  • C.Thanks to the people who enslaved them
5.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 praise the British army
  • C.To turn colonists against the British soldiers
6.Dorothea Lange's 1936 photograph Migrant Mother shows a tired mother and her children. What time does it reflect?
  • A.The American Revolution
  • B.The wealth of the 1920s
  • C.The hardship of the Great Depression
7.In 1845 Frederick Douglass published the story of his own life. Why was it powerful evidence?
  • A.He had never seen slavery
  • B.It was written by a plantation owner
  • C.He had lived in slavery himself
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

Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Ruby Bridges's
  2. 2.Sang it proudly as their own song
  3. 3.It turned many Northern readers against slavery
  4. 4.Faith and the hope of freedom
  5. 5.To turn colonists against the British soldiers
  6. 6.The hardship of the Great Depression
  7. 7.He had lived in slavery himself
  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.