Underground Railroad

Choo-Choo Hotel: Check out one of the largest model train displays in the U.S. at the Choo-Choo Hotel in Chattanooga where you can even sleep in a Victorian railroad car! The model is 174 feet long and 33 feet wide with enormous detail including 1200 cars and 3000 feet of track. If you love miniatures, it’s worth the stop even if you don’t spend the night there! Rock City: Just south of Chattanooga, about 10-15 minutes off of I24, is Rock City. Be ready to spend at least a couple hours, so only…

was a voice for the African American people and creates work to show her political and culture beliefs. Ringgold’s future artwork was greatly affected by the people and culture she was exposed to in her childhood, as well as the racism, sexism, and segregation she dealt with in her everyday life. She continued to be active in expressing her culture to others and participated in a lot of Women and Black Feminist organizations. She was one of the first women to organize and fight to get the…

She did this by making sure her story got out there. She would also spy for the union army and is a famous conductor of the underground railroad. Many abolitionists looked up to her. Harriet Tubman was seriously so amazing. I feel that wife without her would be much different. She was so brave. She is the swellest woman…

Have you ever thought about what may have caused the Civil War? Considering all the options, I think two main causes of the Civil War would have been the Abolitionists and the Fugitive Slave Act. I think these two topics caused tension between the north and south colonies leading to the Civil War and everything it brought to the table. Abolitionists were a leading factor in the Civil War because of their braveness to stand up for what is right. They were not okay with the way slaves were being…

During the 19th Century, women started to realize their potential to help the nation. They wanted to get out of the old traditions forced on them and start a new era for women in America. The Civil War was one of the most gruesome wars America was ever involved in and women were a major part of the war on both sides. Women were involved on both sides of the war and thousands of women joined each side to volunteer as teachers, spies, factory workers, and nurses. Even though women did not have…

the resources we used to better understand that story? (List them in bullet point form and don’t forget field trips!) • Weaver Cemetery • Hills Chapel AME • Quilters Hall of Fame • The Geography of Resistance: Free Black Communities & the Underground Railroad by Cheryl Janifer LaRoche • Flossie Baily article • An Oral History of African Americans in Grant County • Lines of Color- Marion Lynching • Allen Temple AME & Reverend Gladden 10. Churches tend to be racially segregated because…

Harriet Tubman is a hero-past present and future.This means that Harriet was a legend and help 300 slaves to freedom and then took them to the underground railroad and then let them be free.Another thing is that Harriet was a memory of all the citizens in the state.The word hero means that like saving someone or maybe risking their lives to save someone,brave, and kind.One example of a hero is brave and like a helpful person to trusted on.Like Harriet she is trusted on and brave and then she…

Weapon development is a huge field in science, and because of that, people haven’t held back on their advancements in the field. For better or for worse, weapons are all around us now, and they have really shaped history up until now. One of the biggest times for weapon advancements is in war, and there have been plenty in the past. First, I am going to talk about weapons from the Civil War of America. Arguably the biggest advancement that still held up, the Repeater. Repeaters are a type of gun…

Abolitionism in the United States was the movement before and during the American Civil War to end slavery in the United States; it was a movement to end the Atlantic slave trade and set slaves free. At that time, most slaves were Africans, but thousands of Native Americans were also enslaved. In the 18th century, as many as six million Africans were transported to the Americas as slaves, at least a third of them on British ships to North America. Anti-slaveryactivist Harriet Tubman made…

the constitution, he has the right to peaceful protest and speech, but took it much farther than that. In fact, he should be considered a vigilante. Brown and his followers murdered five men in cold bold in Kansas, along with helping on the Underground Railroad, both illegal acts as well. Brown spent over two years forming a so called “army” to fight in Kansas, but only ended up getting about twenty men. Believing that this was enough, Brown attacked and seized the arsenal in Harpers Ferry,…