What did Clint Smith initially imagine the Underground Railroad to be?
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Life Skills
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9th Grade
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Hard
Veronica Richardson
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A vast network of steam engines and tunnels
A group of abolitionists working together
A metaphorical concept with no physical form
A series of safe houses across the South
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who is known as the Father of the Underground Railroad?
William Still
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Samuel Cartwright
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did the Underground Railroad use to describe its components?
Train infrastructure language
Maritime symbols
Agricultural metaphors
Military terminology
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How did Frederick Douglass want the Underground Railroad to be perceived?
As a covert and secretive endeavor
As a government-funded project
As a myth to scare slave owners
As a public and well-known operation
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the main purpose of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
To establish the Underground Railroad as a legal entity
To require the return of escaped slaves to their owners
To provide freedom to all escaped slaves
To abolish slavery in the northern states
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did William Still's records become?
A book known as The Underground Railroad Records
A collection of government documents
A series of newspaper articles
A novel
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What misconception did Clint Smith have about the number of people who escaped through the Underground Railroad?
He thought only a few hundred people used it
He believed millions of enslaved people escaped
He assumed it was mostly used by white abolitionists
He thought it was a failure and hardly used
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