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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.British soldiers sang Yankee Doodle to make fun of the colonists. What did the Patriots do?
  • A.Banned the song in every colony
  • B.Sent it to the king as a gift
  • C.Sang it proudly as their own song
2.Paul Revere's 1770 engraving shows British soldiers firing on calm colonists. Why did he show it that way?
  • A.To praise the British army
  • B.To show exactly what a camera would have seen
  • C.To turn colonists against the British soldiers
3.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 New Deal
  • B.The Gold Rush
  • C.The Harlem Renaissance
4.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
5.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
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 American Revolution
  • C.The hardship of the Great Depression
7.George Catlin painted the Plains nations in the 1830s. Why did he say he painted them?
  • A.He was paid by the railroad to sell tickets
  • B.He believed westward expansion threatened their ways of life
  • C.He wanted to show that no one lived on the Plains
8.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 made slavery more popular in the North
  • C.It turned many Northern readers against slavery

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Answer key — Songs and Paintings From American History

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  1. 1.Sang it proudly as their own song
  2. 2.To turn colonists against the British soldiers
  3. 3.The Harlem Renaissance
  4. 4.Most Americans had never seen the real results of a battle
  5. 5.The Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities
  6. 6.The hardship of the Great Depression
  7. 7.He believed westward expansion threatened their ways of life
  8. 8.It turned many Northern readers against slavery

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