The Underground Railroad

What was the Underground Railroad?

• Secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape into free states/areas

• The first train ever built in the USA

• An underground route that was secretly used to smuggle goods in and out of the U.S.

• A railroad with a train only used by African Americans.

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What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

• This act increased taxes.

• This act gave freedom to all slaves in the U.S.

• This act made Ohio a state.

• This act made it illegal to help runaway slaves.

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What is an abolitionist?

• Someone who had at least 100 slaves on a plantations.

• Someone who wanted higher taxes.

• Someone who wanted slavery to end.

• Someone who believed slavery was necessary.

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What was Harriet Tubman famous for?

• She was an abolitionist and also an escaped slave.

• She was an escaped slave that later became the vice president of the U.S.

• She was the first African American Slave to become free in the state of Ohio.

• She was the 17th President of the U.S.

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Who was known as the "President of the Underground Railroad?"

• William Still

• Levi Coffin

• Elijah Anderson

• Thaddeus Stevens

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What was the code name for the people who guided the fugitive enslaved?

• leaders

• station masters

• conductors

• magicians

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The Underground Railroad stopped during the Civil War.

• True

• False

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Why was it dangerous on the Underground Railroad?

• There were polar bears everywhere!

• There were pirates everywhere!

• Sometimes people sent dogs after the enslaved people!

• There were no more safehouses.

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Harriet Tubman relied on __________, dressing as a man, an elderly woman, or a middle class free African American.

• costumes

• magic

• invisibility

• disguises

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One of Tubman's strategies was to operate the Underground Railroad in the....

• summer when the sun would come up earlier.

• winter when longer nights allowed her to cover more ground.

• spring when there was taller grass to hide in.

• fall when wild animals started to hibernate.

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