Underground Railroad Vocabulary

people who fought to make slavery illegal

• enslaved

• fugitive

• conductor

• abolitionist

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

a person who works to bring about social or political change

• activist

• fugitive

• conductor

• abolitionist

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to direct or manage

• disguise

• devised

• conduct

• runaway

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

a person who helped to direct slaves along the Underground Railroad

• escapee

• activist

• runaway

• conductor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to act in a way that causes pain or distress to others

• cruelly

• gully

• lullaby

• injustice

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

to dress in a way to hide your identity

• annoyed

• disguise

• slave

• meager

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

the state of being owned or forced to work for another

• fugitive

• injustice

• enslaved

• whipped

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

people who have broken free from something

• enslaved

• escapee

• illegal

• activist

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to run from something, often from a dangerous situation

• muttered

• gully

• enslaved

• flee

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

a small valley or trench created by the action of water wearing away land

• gully

• inn

• hound

• scent

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4