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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.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 show exactly what a camera would have seen
  • C.To praise the British army
2.Photographs from Mathew Brady's studio showed dead soldiers after Civil War battles. Why did they shock people?
  • A.They were the first photographs of anything
  • B.Most Americans had never seen the real results of a battle
  • C.They showed the war had ended
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 Boston Tea Party
  • C.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
4.The painting Washington Crossing the Delaware was made in 1851, 75 years after the crossing. What does that tell you?
  • A.The painter was in the boat
  • B.The painter was not there and imagined much of the scene
  • C.It is a photograph of the event
5.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 believed westward expansion threatened their ways of life
  • C.He was paid by the railroad to sell tickets
6.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
7.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 New Deal
  • C.The Gold Rush
8.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

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Answer key — Songs and Paintings From American History

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  1. 1.To turn colonists against the British soldiers
  2. 2.Most Americans had never seen the real results of a battle
  3. 3.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
  4. 4.The painter was not there and imagined much of the scene
  5. 5.He believed westward expansion threatened their ways of life
  6. 6.Faith and the hope of freedom
  7. 7.The Harlem Renaissance
  8. 8.Ruby Bridges's

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