Brainpop-Underground Railroad

1. Which word indicates that travel on the Underground Railroad was done in secret?

• A Conductor

• B Underground

• C Railroad

• D Abolition

2. Which state was the most likely destination for a passenger on the Underground Railroad?

• A New York

• B. Georgia

• C Mississippi

• D Virginia

3. How did life differ in the North for people who had escaped slavery?

• a. Racism was rare

• b. There were fewer white people

• c. African Americans had equal rights

• d. Slavery was illegal

4. Which group opposed abolitionists?

• a. Quakers

• b. Slave owners

• c. African American northerners

• d. Fugitives from Slavery

5. Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth were both:

• a Born in the North

• b. White abolitionists

• c. Formerly enslaved

• d. Supporters of the Fugitive Slave Law

6. What does the story of Henry "Box" Brown demonstrate about the majority of passengers on the Underground Railroad?

• a. They avoided traveling by foot

• b. They traveled alone

• c. They settled in Philadelphia

• d. They took great risks to reach freedom

7. As a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman:

• a. Guided passengers from station to station

• b. Wrote essays against slavery

• c. Gave speeches about her experience in slavery

• d. Defended passengers in court

8. How did William Still contribute to our knowledge of the Underground Railroad?

• a. He founded an abolitionist newspaper

• b. He kept records of passengers he helped rescue

• c. He interviewed former slave owners after the Civil War

• d. He published a biography of Harriet Tubman

9. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was passed in response to:

• a. Harsh treatment of enslaved people by law enforcement

• b. Pro-slavery juries in Northern courts

• c. Northern laws that protected enslaved people

• d. The abolition of slavery by the federal government

10. The Underground Railroad _____ the Civil War.

• a. Continued until

• started after

• helped end

• d. was the main cause