American Survey Timeline

By mandre54

  • "Star Spangled Banner"

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    Trail of Tears

    Around 100,000 American Indians were moved west under the Indian Removal Act, with an unknown amount of them perishing, an unforgivable amount.

  • "Slave Songs of the United States"

    It was the first collection of African American spirituals to be published.

  • "Allons a Lafayette"

    First Cajun commercial recording.

  • "God Bless America"

  • Marian Anderson Sings at the Lincoln Memorial

  • "This Land is Your Land"

  • "Folk Song U.S.A.: the 111 Best American Ballads"

    The significance of this work was that it was a collection of Ballads from all over the United States that much of the common people had never seen, giving this historic art form of America a new life.

  • "We Shall Overcome"

    First used by Guy Carawan to focus on the civil rights movement.