Harriet Tubman
What was Harriet Tubman's childhood nickname?
Minty
This person took care of Frederick during his early years.
His grandmother, Betsy
As a girl, Clara Barton took care of her brother for 2 years after he ______________.
Fell off of a roof
Abraham Lincoln was born in a small log cabin in the backwoods of this state
Kentucky
“I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man’s work for less than a man’s pay.”
Clara Barton
Harriet Tubman is often compared to this Biblical figure (person from the Bible).
Moses
How did Frederick learn to read after his master's wife was told by her husband not to teach him anymore?
By paying poor white children to teach him
Clara's mother took her to a phrenologist, who recommended Clara do this in order to help with her extreme shyness
Teach school
What are some of the jobs (name at least 2) that Abraham Lincoln had before becoming Preseident of the United States?
“God’s time is always near. He set the North Star in the heavens; He gave me the strength in my limbs; He meant I should be free.”
Harriet Tubman
Harriett helped many slaves escape by using a series of routes and safe-houses called the __________.
Underground Railroad
After he escaped slavery and married his wife Anna, Frederick Douglass spent a few years in ___________ to avoid recapture.
Europe (England, Ireland)
During the Civil War, Clara Barton earned this nickname because of her courage in caring for wounded soldiers.
Angel of the Battlefield
Lincoln is famous for the speech which begins, “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
The Gettysburg Address
“When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven”.
Harriett Tubman
After the Fugutive Slave Act was passed, runaway slaves had to cross the border into ___________ in order to be free.
Canada
Frederick Douglass became a well-known in his efforts to end slavery, which is also known as ___________.
Abolition
Clara Barton is the founder of this humanitarian organization in the United States, which still helps people today.
The American Red Cross
Lincoln was a member of this political party, which opposed slavery and did not want the southern states to leave the union.
Republican party
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Frederick Douglass
Name 2 of the 3 jobs that Harriett Tubman performed during the Civil War?
Nurse / spy / commander for the Union Army
Frederick Douglass was an influential speaker and author of 3 ___________ (type of book) about his life.
Autobiographies
What event caused Clara Barton great unhappiness towards the end of her life?
She was accused by the ARC of mishandling/misuing money
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C., by a man named ____________.
John Wilkes Booth
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
Abraham Lincoln