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What was the Underground Railroad?
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The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses
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About How many slaves escaped each year?
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About 1000 slaves
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People who helped slaves find the railroad
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shepherds
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What were guides known as?
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Conductors
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what was another name for Hiding places?
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stations
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What did Stationmasters do?
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hid slaves in their homes
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What were the escaped slaves refereed to as?
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passengers or cargo
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What were the Financial benefactors of the Railroad known as?
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Stockholders
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How many people did the south lose during the time of 1810 and 1850
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100,000 slaves lost
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What would the fugitives travel by?
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Train or boat
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What did Harriet Tubman do?
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Made 19 trips back to the South and helped free over 300 people
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Where does the underground railroad take place?
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In the south
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True or False?
The Underground railroad was an underground railroad |
False
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When was the underground railroad first operated?
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1787
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Who was Isaac T. Hopper and what did he do?
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A Quaker, began to organize a system for hiding and aiding fugitive slaves.
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Around how many people worked on the railroad by 1850?
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3,000
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Who were some of the best known people who provided help on the route?
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William Still, Gerrit Smith, Salmon Chase, David Ruggle, Thomas Garrett, William Purvis, Jane Grey Swisshelm, William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Lucretia Mott, Charles Langston, Levi Coffin and Susan B. Anthony.
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True or False?
Tubman was considered such a threat to the slave system that plantation owners offered a $40,000 reward for her capture. |
True
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True or False?
Stations were about 10 miles apart. |
False
They were about 20 miles apart from each other. |
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True or False?
Any person aiding a runaway slave by providing shelter, food or any other form of assistance was liable to six months' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine. |
True
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Who was Thomas Garret?
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The Delaware Station-Master
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What did Thomas Garret do?
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Paid more than $8,000 in fines and Calvin Fairbank served over seventeen years in prison for his anti-slavery activities
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Who was John Fairfield?
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One of best known white conductor
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What happened to John Fairfield?
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Was killed working for the underground railroad
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How many slaves did Harriet Tubman free?
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Approximately 300
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Why was it called the "Underground" railroad and just not a railroad?
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Because Underground means that no one knew about it except for the people involved in it
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If you were involved in the underground railroad, how many days a week would you work?
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6 days a week
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What recommendation did the Underground Railroad Advisory Committee make on August 11,1995?
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That the U.S. Congress authorize a national Underground Railroad Commission and fund a national initiative to support projects focusing on activities associated with the Underground Railroad.
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What recommendation did the Underground Railroad Advisory Committee make on August 11,1995?
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That all the alternatives identified as concepts A through E in this Special Resource Study be pursued with equal vigor and simultaneously as appropriate.
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What recommendation did the Underground Railroad Advisory Committee make on August 11,1995?
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That the National Capital Field Area Office of the National Park Service be authorized to coordinate Underground Railroad activities throughout the National Park Service.
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Where was Harriet Tubman
born? |
Plantation in Maryland
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What was Harriet Tubman's
real name? |
Araminta
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Why did Harriet Tubman
have strange sleeping spells? |
She was hit on the head by a heavy metal weight.
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What was Harriet Tubman's
favorite thing to do? |
Working outdoors
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Who was Harriet Tubman's master?
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Edward Brodess
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When did Harriet Tubman run
away from the plantation? |
1849
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What was the
Underground Railroad? |
A secret system of roads and houses that led slaves north to freedom.
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What was the Drinking Gourd?
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A Constellation
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What was Harriet Tubman's
job on the Underground Railroad? |
Conductor
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What was the secret password
that escaping slaves used on their journey north? |
Friend with friends
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When did Harriet Tubman die?
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1913
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What were some ways fugitive slaves traveled North?
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in boxes,covered by sacks,in a coffine
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Which of the following was a good reason for slaves to try to escape in winter?
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there were less bounty hunters searching in the winter
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What was a Station?
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a safe house for runaway slaves
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What is the Drinking Gourd?
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the Big Dipper
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What was the code for Canada?
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Heaven
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Why would runaway slaves "Follow the Drinking Gourd"?
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by following the Drinking Gourd slaves would find their ways to freedom
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Why were slaves free in Canada?
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in 1833, King William IV of Briton agreed to a bill that ended slavery in Canada
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What happened in 1850 that allowed bounty hunters to chase fugitive slaves into free states?
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the Fugitive Slave Act became law
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What was the Underground Railroad?
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an organized group of people that assisted fugitive slaves find their way north to freedom
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How were quilts used on the Underground Railroad?
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as coded maps
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