Spirituals
Oh Say Can You See
Folk Songs
Patriotic Music
4th Grade Grab Bag
100
These people sang spirituals while they worked in fields or while escaping to the North.
Who are slaves?
100
This man wrote the words to the Star Spangled Banner.
Who is Francis Scott Key?
100
This song includes the line "I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee."
What is Oh Susanna?
100
This is a song that could represent a country or a group of people.
What is an anthem?
100
Name one instrument that Stevie Wonder plays.
What are piano, harmonica, or drums?
200
In a code song, the name Moses really means this woman.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
Francis Scott Key was in this city when the anthem was written.
What is Baltimore?
200
This is the reason Clementine and her father went to California.
What is to find gold?
200
This lyric begins, "You're a Grand Old Flag...."
What is "You're a high flying flag"?
200
This is another name for a musical sentence.
What is a phrase?
300
This did not have real trains travelling on it, but people used it to escape to the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
The flag is currently hanging in a museum in this city.
What is Washington DC?
300
This kind of guy would probably sing Home on the Range when he got lonely.
Who is a cowboy?
300
This is what makes a song patriotic.
What is singing positive things about your country?
300
Sixteenth notes have this many sounds in a beat.
What are four?
400
The song Follow the Drinking Gourd was talking about this star or constellation.
What is the North Star or the Big Dipper?
400
These are defensive walls to protect a military fort.
What are ramparts?
400
Shoofly was most likely sung during what American war?
What is the Civil War?
400
Katherine Lee Bates was at the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado when she wrote the words to this song.
What is America the Beautiful?
400
Finish this lyric. Ding dong diggadigga dong, diggadigga dong...
What is the cat she's gone?
500
These were hung on people's porches to show slaves a safe house. They had patterns to give people clues and hints.
What are quilts?
500
The National Anthem was written during this war.
What is the War of 1812?
500
The way Clementine met her demise.
What is drowning?
500
This song was sung a lot after 9/11. Some people think it should be our national anthem.
What is God Bless America?
500
The distance between 2 notes with the same name, but 8 tones apart, is called this.
What is an octave?
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