Important People
This woman helped slaves escape and followed the North Star to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This word means to get rid of something, like slavery.
What is abolish?
How does the author compare Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe?
They were both abolitionists
This woman wrote the famous book Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This word means a person in a story, like Tom in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
What is character?
What is this passage mostly about?
two women named Harriet and their roles in helping to end slavery
This president met Harriet Beecher Stowe and said she started the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This word means to make a smart guess based on information.
What is estimate?
Approximately how many slaves did Harriet Tubman help escape to freedom?
Harriet Tubman helped between 70 and 300 slaves escape to freedom.
These two women were famous abolitionists who helped end slavery in different ways.
Who are Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This word describes something that has a strong effect on people or history.
What is influential?
How was Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin influential in the period leading up to the Civil War?
Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was influential in the period leading up to the Civil War because it inspired readers to speak out against slavery; it angered people in the South, and historians believe it helped lead the Southern states to break away from the North a decade after its publication.
This cruel plantation owner in Uncle Tom’s Cabin ordered Tom to be beaten.
Who is Simon Legree?
This vocabulary word describes how Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe helped change history.
What is influential?
“But Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe are now recognized for their different but important roles in ending slavery in the United States of America.” Explain how each of the Harriets helped to end slavery. Support your answer using information from the passage.
Students should indicate that Harriet Tubman helped end slavery by leading slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad and serving in the Union Army as a spy during the Civil War. Harriet Beecher Stowe helped end slavery by writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which historians believe helped lead the Southern states to break away from the North, thereby causing the Civil War and the ultimate end to slavery with the Union’s victory.