Show:
Abolitionists
Underground Railroad - People
Underground Railroad - Codes
Transportation Advances
Inventors and Inventors
100
Black female abolitionist who was also a feminist and famous her "Ain't I a Woman" speech
Who was Sojourner Truth?
100
The most famous of the Underground Railroad conductors, an escaped enslaved woman also known as "Moses"
Who was Harriet Tubman?
100
This code word indicated a person who helped enslaved people find freedom
What is a conductor?
100
Originally, railroads were used to bring goods to this means of transportation
What are canals?
100
Inventor who improved on Elias Howe's sewing machine design - still the most common brand of sewing machines today
Who was Isaac Singer?
200
This African American abolitionist was a famed speaker and writer; we read his account about how his enslaver's wife taught him to read
Who was Frederick Douglass?
200
Enslaved married couple who escaped slavery by the wife impersonating a white male slave owner and her husband posing as her servant
Who were Ellen and William Craft?
200
This code word indicated a safe house or shelter for enslaved people who were fleeing slavery
What is a station?
200
Name three dangers involved in early railroads
What were accidents, frequent break downs, and fires from the embers that came from the smokestacks?
200
Inventor who created a lightweight steel plow - his company makes tractors and other farm equipment today
Who was John Deere?
300
White abolitionist to whom Sojourner Truth dictated her narrative
Who was Olive Gilbert?
300
Two men, one black and one white, who ran the Underground Railroad station in Delaware in the 1840s
Who were Samuel Burris and Thomas Garrett?
300
This visual code allowed enslaved people and their supporters to communicated without written or spoken words about how to escape slavery
What was the quilt code?
300
Sleek vessels with tall masts and huge sails that sped up trade between the U.S. and other countries
What are clipper ships?
300
Inventor of the telegraph
Who was Samuel Morse?
400
White male abolitionist who was an associate of Sojourner Truth
Who was Isaac Van Wagenen?
400
Ran the Detroit Underground Railroad using complicated signals and oaths along with his organization "African Mysteries"
Who was William Lambert?
400
This quilt code told enslaved people to travel north by following migrating birds, also told them when to travel and where to find water and food
What is "flying geese"?
400
Problem with early railroads that causes frequent collisions
What is one track for traffic going two ways, instead of a set of two?
400
Code made of dot and dashes developed for the telegraph
What is Morse code?
500
Sojourner Truth had this in common with Rosa Parks
What is speaking out against being mistreated on public transportation?
500
Enslaved man who mailed himself to freedom in 1848
Who was Henry "Box" Brown?
500
This quilt code told enslaved people to travel in a zigzag pattern to throw off pursuing slave hunters
What is "drunkard's path"?
500
British innovation in sea transportation that made the clipper ships seem slow and outdated
What were steamships?
500
Prior to this invention by an English family in 1829, horses and mules pulled railroad cars
What is the steam-powered locomotive?