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why was canada so popular for American runaway slaves to travel to? |
- Everyone was equally free - No slave catchers from America were allowed into Canada- any slave that entered Canada was a free man - Thriving black communities just across the border |
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True or False: The Revolution allowed many slaves or free blacks to escape and join the Union army during 1863 |
false, the Civil War |
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Abraham Lincoln (did or did not) support the Underground Railroad. |
did not |
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Abolitionists would organize meetings, read speeches, wrote anti-slavery books, wrote anti-slavery phamphlets/newspapers, signed petitions, formed abolitionist societies, and boycotted goods made with slave labor, during the 1880s. |
false, 1800s. |
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What were ways that run away slaves found their way to the North. |
- moss - little dipper - big dipper - north star |
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The main idea of the ______ Amendment was to abolish slavery forever in America. |
13th |
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Around __________ slaves escaped on the Underground Railroad during the 1800s. |
100,000 |
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what were ways underground railroad workers kept their efforts a secret |
- hid slaves in secret rooms - hid slaves in secret tunnels - carried them to wagons with hidden bottoms - had a system of codes to communicate |
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true or false: Most runaway slaves would be caught in traps, or snare set up for them. |
true |
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Some states where they might also want to escape to would be ______ or _________. |
ohio, Indiana |
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When slaves were hoping to reach the underground railroad, they stowed away, on _____, _____, or _______. Others would travel by_____. |
boats, trains, wagons, foot |
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Most of the people helping the slaves on the underground railroad were ______ blacks, or former ________ that had escaped. |
free, slaves |
