Patriotic Songs

I CAN identify patriotic songs and why they are

important.

What does it mean to be patriotic?

Patriotism = devoted love, support, and defense of ones country
National loyalty

How can we show our patriotism?

Displaying American flags
Celebrating patriotic holidays
Singing patriotic songs

Yankee Doodle

Written by Richard Shuckburg in the 1770s

State anthem of Connecticut

Pre-Revolutionary War
Sung by British military officers to mock the disheveled, disorganized
colonial Yankees

Yankees what people who live outside of the United States call Americans
Sung patriotically in the United States

America The Beautiful

Written by Katharine Lee Bates
Has been called an expression of patriotism at its finest
Shows appreciation and gratitude for the nations extraordinary physical
beauty

One of the most popular of the many American patriotic songs

The Star Spangled Banner

Written by Francis Scott Key in 1814
Written after watching Fort McHenry being attacked by the British
The national anthem of the United States

This Land is Your Land

Written by Woody Guthrie
Originally written as a protest anthem, but often misinterpreted as a patriotic
song

Lyrics express Guthries belief that the working class should have the same
rights as the rich

My Country Tis of Thee

Written by Samuel Francis Smith
Also known as America
Used as one of the national anthems of the United States before the
adoption of The Star-Spangled Banner

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Used by those in the Underground Railroad to encode escape instructions
and a map

These directions enabled fleeing slaves to make their way north from Mobile,
Alabama to the Ohio River and freedom

The Underground Railroad

Not a real railroad
A route that helped African American slaves escape from the South to find
freedom from in the North

It is a made up network, or connected group, of places called stations

What is slavery?
A slave is work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
Under the control of another person

The Underground Railroad

There would be people at each station who would help the slaves escape
slavery

Slaves would travel from station to station

It was TOP SECRET!

Red state = Slave state

Blue state = Free state

The Underground Railroad

Reached its height between 1850 and 1860
One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped by the
Railroad

Slavery officially ended in 1865

Swing Low Sweet Chariot

A traditional African American spiritual
Another song used by slaves in the Underground Railroad
Considered a coded song to help slaves escape to freedom