Important people
Harriet Tubman helped people escape from this horrible system.
What is slavery?
This secret network helped enslaved people escape to freedom in the 1800s.
What is the Underground railroad?
Many people traveled during this time to avoid being seen.
What is night?
Freedom seekers were sometimes called this, like on a train?
What are passengers?
The Underground Railroad was a secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is fact?
This was the main method Harriet Tubman used to help people escape safely.
What is the Underground railroad?
Many freedom seekers traveled north to reach this country, where slavery had already been put to an end.
What is Canada?
Many people hoped to reach this country where slavery was illegal.
What is Canada?
A person guiding freedom seekers was called this.
What is a conductor?
Harriet Tubman helped guide enslaved people to freedom and is connected to routes used near the Niagara region.
What is fact?
This State is where Harriet Tubman was born.
Maryland
Virginia
Alabama
What is Maryland?
Enslaved people escaping to freedom on the Underground Railroad were often called this.
What are freedom seekers?(refugees)
Freedom seekers often traveled quietly through these natural areas.
What are forests or fields?
A safe house was called this using railroad language.
What is a station?
True or False:
The Salem Chapel BME played a part in assisting slaves during the underground railroad.
True
Harriet Tubman risked her life to help people escape so they could have this basic right.
What is freedom?
This term described safe houses where escaping enslaved people could hide and rest.
What are stations?
Most people traveled in this direction to reach freedom. (North, South, East or West)
What is North?
Secret words were used so plans would not be understood by this group.
Who are slave catchers/hunters?
Once enslaved people reached Canada, they could legally be captured and returned to the United States.
What is fiction?
What object hit Harriet Tubman in the head when she was a child?
What is a weight?
Helpers and freedom seekers used this kind of language so others would not understand their plans.
What is secret language?
What US states didn't support slavery during the time of the underground railroad?
a)Vermont
b)Maryland
c)Mississippi
d) Virginia
What is Vermont?
Songs, lanterns, or symbols were used to send these.
What are secret signals?
What nickname was given to Harriet Tubman?
Who is Moses?