Key Figures
She was known as the "Moses" of her people, helping hundreds escape slavery.
What is Harriet Tubman
These people led slaves from one safe place to another.
Who are "conductors"?
This direction was often symbolized in songs with words like “heaven,” or “home.”
What is North
Helping a runaway slave could result in this punishment.
What is a fine or imprisonment?
This famous African American abolitionist and former slave published The North Star newspaper.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Those escaping slavery
What is are "passengers"
This natural feature was often mentioned in spirituals because it could mask a person’s scent from hunting dogs.
What is water
This term described a slave who had escaped and was being sought by authorities.
What is a "fugitive"?
What happened to Harriet Tubman when she was 13?
What is a severe head injury
A safe place to rest or hide on the Underground Railroad.
What is a "station"?
This spiritual encouraged people to walk through rivers to avoid detection by bloodhounds.
What is "Wade in the Water"?
Under the 1850 law, runaway slaves could not do this in court.
What is testify on their own behalf
What is 70
Folks who hid enslaved people
Who are "station masters"
This song referred to the Big Dipper, which pointed freedom seekers toward the North Star.
What is "Follow the Drinking Gourd"?
This law made it illegal to help runaway slaves and required their return even from free states.
A: What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
When was Fredrick Douglas born?
"Drinking Gourd" was a code phrase referring to this star pattern used for navigation.
This biblical river, sung about in spirituals, often symbolized crossing into freedom.
What is the Jordan River?
This Supreme Court case said enslaved people were not citizens and had no rights.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?