WorksheetsFollow the Drinking Gourd
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 4mins
What is a drinking gourd?
What does the drinking gourd in the sky look like?
Who taught a secret song to the enslaved people?
Old Hattie Mae
Peg Leg Joe
Young George
Isaiah
Why did Peg Leg Joe teach the enslaved people a song?
So they could get in trouble
So they could run away and be free
So they could work for him
So they could have fun
If people followed the drinking gourd, where would it take them?
North towards Canada
West towards California
East towards the Atlantic Ocean
South towards Mexico
What was the underground railroad?
a river
a train
a path of secret safe houses
a hole in the ground
Why did the enslaved people need to travel at night?
so they could pretend to be owls
so they could see better
so people couldn't see them
so they could run faster
What are some ways that the enslaved people were kept hidden on the underground railroad?
using a time machine
using a trap door to hide under a barn
hiding in a secret room behind a shelf
using a cloak of invisibility like in Harry Potter
