Important Dates
The year the first slaves arrived in America.
What is 1619?
The most famous conductor.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Letter written by Abraham Lincoln to Robert E Lee.
What is a primary source?
Mailed himself to freedom in a box.
Who is Henry Box Brown.
The year the Missouri Compromise was passed.
What is 1820?
Purpose of Underground Railroad.
What is to free slaves?
A slave trader’s biography.
What is secondary source?
Nicknamed Moses.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
No more slaves could be purchased from Africa after this year.
What is 1808?
Stops on the Underground Railroad.
What are stations?
Wikipedia article on slavery.
What is a secondary source?
Gave the Gettysburg Address.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
The year six states formed the confederate states.
What is 1861?
The country with the northern most stop.
What is Canada?
Chains from a slave ship.
What is primary source?
Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The year Virginia passed slave codes.
What is 1705?
He helped run the Underground Railroad and established an anti-slave catcher militia.
Who is John Brown?
Poem written by Robert Frost about slavery.
What is secondary source?
Wrote the newspaper the Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?