Routes
People
Protests
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
Who organized the Underground Railroads?
Abolitionists
100
Who is the most widely known African American abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass
100
What did john brown do
he conducted a raid to free and arm slaves (was executed when he failed)
100
What were conductors?
A person who guided slaves to freedom
100
Was the Underground Railroad a real railroad?
No
200
Where in America did these routes occur?
The south to all the way to Canada and a few towards Mexico.
200
Who challenged African Americans to rebel and overthrow slavery?
David Walker
200
what was the liberator
the liberator was the most famous anti slavery newspaper.
200
What does emancipation mean?
freedom
200
Were the routes dangerous?
Yes
300
how were stations established in the underground railroad?
by word of mouth
300
Who wrote the newspaper, The Liberator, which wrote about antislavery and called for the immediate freeing of slaves?
Who wrote the newspaper, The Liberator, which wrote about antislavery and called for the immediate freeing of slaves? William Lloyd Garrison
300
What was uncle tom's cabin?
it was an anti slavery novel (written by Harriet Beecher Stowe)
300
What were pilots?
What were pilots? A person that went to slave states to find slaves seeking freedom
300
About how many slaves were saved in the Underground Railroad
About 100,000
400
what were the people who ran the stations called
what is conductors
400
What did the Grimke Sisters do to help free slaves?
They used their inheritance to buy slaves to let them free
400
What was frederick douglass's north star?
What was frederick douglass's north star? it was a newspaper that had idea about universal emancipation and better treatment of colored people.
400
What were stations?
A safe place in the Underground people
400
TRIPLE JEOPARDY!!! Who was considered to be the President of the Underground Railroad?
Levi Coffin
500
when did the underground railroad start
before he 1800s
500
What religious group was in the Abolitionist Movement?
What religious group was in the Abolitionist Movement? Quakers
500
in what state had some of the first organization of protesters against slavery
What is pennsylvania
500
What were runaway slaves called?
Passenger
500
Name three ways conductors hid the slaves?
Name three ways conductors hid the slaves? Passages, basements, cellars and hidden compartments in cupboards
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