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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.Ruby Bridges's
  • B.Harriet Tubman's
  • C.Rosa Parks's
2.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 turn colonists against the British soldiers
  • C.To praise the British army
3.Enslaved people sang spirituals. What did many of these songs express?
  • A.Thanks to the people who enslaved them
  • B.Instructions for planting cotton
  • C.Faith and the hope of freedom
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.The painting Washington Crossing the Delaware was made in 1851, 75 years after the crossing. What does that tell you?
  • A.The painter was not there and imagined much of the scene
  • B.The painter was in the boat
  • C.It is a photograph of the event
6.Jacob Lawrence painted a series of 60 panels in 1940 and 1941. What did they show?
  • A.The Boston Tea Party
  • B.The Gold Rush in California
  • C.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
7.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.Nobody read it until 1950
  • C.It made slavery more popular in the North
8.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

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Answer key — Songs and Paintings From American History

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  1. 1.Ruby Bridges's
  2. 2.To turn colonists against the British soldiers
  3. 3.Faith and the hope of freedom
  4. 4.The Harlem Renaissance
  5. 5.The painter was not there and imagined much of the scene
  6. 6.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
  7. 7.It turned many Northern readers against slavery
  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.