Underground Railroad Video Questions

1) What is the term Underground Railroad symbolic of?

2) What was life like for an enslaved Africans? Describe in detail.
3) Before the North was safe for slaves where did slaves flee to?
4) Why did the Seminole Indians welcome former slaves? What did
they add to the tribe?
5) What is Fort Moussa and why is it important?
6) What is the Mason-Dixon Line? Why did slaves want to get north of
it?
7) What does To Follow the Drinking Gourd mean? List the meanings
of the different lyrics.
8) Why did William Lloyd Garrison have such a strong reaction to
hearing Douglass speak?
9) Who is William Still and why was he important? Why would he and
his family be willing to risk so much to help fugitive slaves?
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Why are Stills written records so important?

11)
What is the Fugitive Slave Law? How is it damaging to the
abolitionist movement? How did it force the Underground Railroad
to change?
12)
Describe the life of Harriet Tubman? Why did she choose to
help others escape to freedom putting her own life in danger?
13)
Describe the role black churches played in the Underground
Railroad.
14)
How did the focus of the Underground Railroad change after
the Emancipation Proclamation was passed?

Write a two paragraph essay: Why was the Underground

Railroad important? How did it fight slavery? Was it successful or
not? Give evidence to back up your answer.

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