Underground Railroad
True or false: The Underground Railroad was a series of train stations used by enslaved people to escape.
False
This vocabulary word means secret
Underground
This is the state where Harriet Tubman was born.
Maryland
This is the number of people (approximately) that she helped escape.
300
Name one of the items listed in the book that enslaved people were not allowed to do.
No pay, no escaping, no marriage, no reading or writing, no meetings.
This is the name given to a person who helped enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
Conductor
What does ramshackle mean?
falling apart
This was the skill Harriet's father taught her that helped her communicate in the woods with other escaping enslaved people.
Bird Calls
This name for money given when a person is captured was between $10,000 & $40,000 for Harriet Tubman
bounty
What type of figurative language is this?
"So far up the mountains looked like pieces of rock candy and the oceans looked like tiny cups of tea."
simile
These are 2 states that Cassie passed through as she followed Tubman's path.
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York
Wet, limp, cold, dirty - just a wet mess!
This was the skill her mother taught her that helped heal people.
herbs or nursing skills
When she was in later life, Harriet had a dream that included this, which Faith Ringgold made part of her book.
flying to freedom, circle of ladies in white
How did BeBe end up with baby Freedom?
Her mother died.
This is the time of day most traveled on the Underground Railroad.
Night
Antebellum is a word in 2 parts: ante meaning before, and bellum which means this.
War
When she was a young girl, she was hit in the head by a weight thrown at another. This caused what problem for her throughout her life?
blackouts or fainting
This job was unusual for a woman to hold during the Civil War, but nonetheless, Harriet Tubman held it.
Commander of troops - both men & women
This was one of the scary places that Cassie hid.
Cemetary, Funeral parlor, casket, attic
This is the final destination for most enslaved people who were escaping.
Canada
What vocabulary word means a small space that is walled off - where many runaways hid.
compartment
survival skills, hunting, swimming, how to navigate the woods
After she retired, how much was her war pension after serving as a spy and nurse in the Civil War.
$0 - she got no pension.
This is the meaning of "Shook the lion's paw."
escaped to Canada