Fact or Fiction: Underground Railroad

Multiple Choice

Slaves needed others, like Harriet Tubman, coming to their plantation to help them make their escape.

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Most slaves planned and carried out their own escapes, usually alone.

Multiple Choice

The Underground Railroad did not exist in the South. Slaves rarely received help until they reached a free, northern state.

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Multiple Choice

Slaves made quilts that had specific symbols – or codes – that helped slaves escape. Slaves used the quilts since many of them were illiterate.

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People in the 1800s made quilts. Sometimes these quilts had symbols in them, but they were not secret codes that helped runaway slaves.

Multiple Choice

Many slaves escaped from the Deep South.

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Because runaway slaves could not expect any help until they got to a free state, it was more difficult for slaves in the Deep South like Alabama and Louisiana to make it to freedom.

Multiple Choice

Only a small minority of people in the North worked on – and even supported – the Underground Railroad.

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Multiple Choice

Many conductors for the Underground Railroad were free black Americans.

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Multiple Choice

A large percentage of slaves escaped on the Underground Railroad.

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We don't have an exact number, but as many as 100,000 slaves escaped on the Underground Railroad between 1800 and 1865.