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African Music, Spirituals, and the Roots of American Sound

African Cultural Innovations and Heritage in Early America

4th Grade·Social Studies·US-MD-SS

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Trace the influence of African polyrhythms, call-and-response singing, spirituals, and the banjo on American music.

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African Cultural Innovations and Heritage in Early America

4th Grade · Social Studies · US-MD-SS

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Explore how African agricultural innovations, culinary arts, music, language, and intellectual achievements profoundly shaped early American culture and society.

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6/7.8.2.eMaryland Social Studies Standards · 4th Grade

Identifying shifts in human systems and place created by the cultural contributions of enslaved Africans and free Black populations in North America.