UGR and Aboltionist

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

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

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

• Conductor

• Underground

• Railroad

• Abolition

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

• New York

• Georgia

• Mississippi

• Virginia

Which group opposed abolitionists?

• Quakers

• Slave Owners

• African Americans in the North

• Fugitives from Slavery

Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth were both:

• Born in the North

• White Abolitionists

• Former Slaves

• Supporters of the Fugitive Slave Law

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

• Harsh treatment of enslaved people by law enforcement

• Pro-slavery juries in Northern Courts

• Northern laws that protected enslaved people

• The abolition of slavery by the federal government

What is an abolitionist?

• Someone who supports slavery
• Someone who wants to catch runaway slaves
• Someone who wants to end slavery
• Someone who wants to divide the North and South

People who helped slaves, took the chance of being arrested and jailed if they were caught. 

• True
• False

Who was Harriet Tubman?  

• She led many slaves to the Underground Railroad.  
• She started the Underground Railroad.  
• She died being a slave in 1913.  
• A woman born in Africa.