History
Mission
Biography
American Civil War
Childhood
100
Who am I?
I am Harriet Tubman.
100
What were Harriet Tubman's accomplishments?
Harriet Tubman was an American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War (1861–65). She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom in the North along the route of the Underground Railroad. What were Harriet Tubman’s accomplishments?
100
A) What are some interesting facts about Harriet Tubman?
She was born into slavery in Maryland, Harriet Tubman escaped to freedom in the North in 1849 to become the most famous "conductor".
100
What did Harriet Tubman do with the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman is credited with conducting upward of 300 fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad from the American South to Canada. Her extraordinary courage, ingenuity, persistence, and iron discipline enabled her to lead enslaved people to freedom.
100
Fill in the blank.
As a child, I worked at the home of a planter named_____
James Cook
200
Fill in the blank.
I was an ____and____.
I was an American abolitionist and political activist.
200
Who as "conductors" in the Underground Railroad
A) Araminta "Minty" B) James Brown
C) Patrica Green D) None of above
Araminta
200
B. What are some interesting facts about Harriet Tubman?
The Underground Railroad
200
What did Harriet Tubman do in the Underground railroad?
With the help of the Underground Railroad, Harriet persevered and traveled 90 miles north to Pennsylvania and freedom.
200
True or False
I was born as a freed black person.
False
Tubman was born to enslaved parents.
Or
She was born enslaved.
300
Fill in the blank.
Harriet Tubman was an___________who became a ______ on the Underground Railroad, leading enslaved people to freedom before the Civil War, all while carrying a bounty on her head.
I was an escaped "enslaved woman" who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, leading enslaved people to freedom before the Civil War, all while carrying a bounty on her head.
300
What was Harriet's mission to freed colored people?
Freedom
300
What is Harriet Tubman's birth name?
Tubman was born Araminta "Minty" Ross to enslaved parents.
Originally named Araminta Harriet Ross, Tubman was nicknamed “Minty” by her parents. Araminta changed her name to Harriet around the time of her marriage, possibly to honor her mother.
300
What am I ?
Underground Railroad
300
What were Harriet Tubman's birthday and birthplace?
Birthday: March 1822
Birthplace: Dorchester County, Maryland
400
Fill in the blank.
I made_____mission to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.
13
400
What was Harriet's mission to lead the enslaved to?
The Underground Railroad and to free over 300 enslaved people.
400
True and False
Harriet is the eighth child and was born to Marie Pattison Brodess and Thomas Ross.
False
She was one of nine children born between 1808 and 1832 to enslaved parents in Dorchester County, Maryland. Her mother, Harriet “Rit” Green, was owned by Mary Pattison Brodess. Her father, Ben Ross, was owned by Anthony Thompson (Thompson and Brodess eventually married).
400
True or False
Harriet helped freed enslaved people?
True
400
True or False
Harriet was beaten and whipped by her father and mother as a child.
False
She was beaten and whipped by her various masters as a child.
500
Fill in the blank.
Tubman was an ____ in the movement for women's suffrage.
I was an activist.
500
What role did Harriet Tubman play in the Civil War?
Harriet Tubman fought the institution of slavery well beyond her role as a conductor for the Underground Railroad. As a soldier and spy for the Union Army during the Civil War, Tubman became the first woman to lead an armed military operation in the United States in what is known as the Combahee Ferry Raid.
500
True or False
Tubman’s early life was full of hardship. Mary Brodess’s son Edward sold three of Tubman’s sisters to distant plantations, severing the family. When a trader from Georgia approached Brodess about buying Rit’s youngest son, Moses, Rit successfully resisted the further fracturing of her family, setting a powerful example for her young daughter.
True
500
Explain why?
Answer may vary
500
Fill in the blank
A) Harriet suffered ___, _____, and spells of hypersomnia as a child.
B) Explain why.
A) Harriet suffered dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia as a child.
B) Early in life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate overseer threw a heavy metal weight intending to hit another enslaved person but hit her instead.