Underground Railroad

What was the Underground Railroad?

• The first subway system in America

• A trade network through which people smuggled illegal goods

• A network that helped escaped slaves travel North to freedom

• A secret network of Union spies sent to monitor the South

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Why did escaped slaves travel to Canada?

• The climate was preferable.

• Canada was a free country beyond the range of slave catchers

• Canadians were more accepting of former slaves than US Northerners

• Canada provided easy access to trade routes back to Africa, where many former slaves wished to go

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Who was Harriet Tubman?

• A conductor for the Underground Railroad

• A Confederate spy

• A former slave who became a member of Congress

• The first former slave to successfully escape to Mexico

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What is an overseer?

• A boss of slaves

• A person who doesn't believe in slaves

• Someone who works for a government

• A person who doesn't believe in slaves

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What is an abolitionist?

• Children born into slavery

• People who thought slavery was wrong.

• People who sold others into slavery

• People who drove wagons on the plantation

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

• New York

• Georgia

• Mississippi

• Virginia

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Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth were both:

• born in the North

• white abolitionists

• formerly enslaved

• supporters of the Fugitive Slave Law

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How did enslaved people know where to go throughout the night?

• They had a GPS.

• They were told to follow the North Star.

• They knew how many steps to walk.

• They would follow the clouds.

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How did Henry "Box" Brown get himself out of work?

• He told the work boss he was sick.
• He just stayed home.
• He burned his hand with acid.

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Why was Henry's nickname Henry "BOX" Brown?

• He shipped his family north

• He hid in a box and was shipped to Philadelphia
• He destroyed any box he came across
• He sent a package to his family in the North

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