Underground Railroad vocabulary

Treating other people poorly

• prejudice

• abolitionist

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• conductors

Owning someone as a slave

• conductors

• slavery

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

Running away to find freedom

• slave catchers

• slavery

• conductors

• fugitives

people who want to get rid of slavery forever

• Underground Railroad

• conductors

• slavery

• abolitionist

Runaway slaves could be returned to the South and people helping the slaves could be punished

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• fugitives

• abolitionist

• Fugitive Slave Act

People who caught runaway slaves

• fugitives

• conductors

• Emancipation Proclamation

• slave catchers

secret places that slaves could hide in as they were running away

• Emancipation Proclamation

• fugitives

• Underground Railroad

• conductors

People that helped lead escaped slaves to freedom

• fugitives

• prejudice

• conductors

• slavery

slaves escaping to freedom through the underground railroad

• Emancipation Proclamation

• passengers

• conductors

• fugitives

made it illegal to help slaves

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• passengers

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Fugitive Slave Act