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1. In what border state was Harriet born?
2. How did the expansion of cotton fields in the South affect young slaves living on the Easter Shore?
3. How old was Harriet when she escaped slavery?
4. Why did the Underground Railroad not stop in the United States but run all the way into Canada?
5. Define each of the terms:
a. Eastern Shore:
b. Fugitive Slave Act:
c. Bloodhound Act:
d. Underground Railroad:
1. After the Civil War, what was the focus of Harriet Tubman’s life?
2. Who did Harriet care for? For about how many years did she do this?
3. In terms of value to society and to her country, how does Tubman’s caregiver work in Auburn
compare with her other achievements?
1. If Harriet was born in 1822, how old was she when she made her first and last rescue?
2. In what country and state did Harriet collect most of her slave fugitives?
3. According to this log, what is the total number of slaves Harriet escorted to freedom?
4. According to the Document Note, what measures did Tubman take to avoid capture?
5. In terms of risk, number of people helped, or length of time spent, does this document
provide evidence of a great achievement? Explain.
2. Even as an early teenager, Tubman felt the need to help people around her. What heroic
action led to an injury that affected her for the rest of her life?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html
3. Observe the picture below, what types of obstacles do you see that Tubman and those she
helped had to face?
http://stufffromthelab.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/tubman_nps.
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4. Under the section Escape from Slavery and Abolitionism, what action did Tubman take to
counter the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850? Why would this action help the fugitives?
http://www.biography.com/people/harriet-tubman-9511430#escape-from-slaveryand-abolitionism&
5. How many slaves did Harriet Tubman save?
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awrbc4/d35.html
6. What did Harriet Tubman proudly point out to Frederick Douglass? Why do you think she was
so proud of this fact?
http://stufffromthelab.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/harriettubman/
7. Watch this video. How did Harriet Tubman “strike fear” into the slave owners?
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/harriet-tubman
8. Read through the timeline of Tubman’s life. Choose a year that you feel was the most
significant in her life and explain your choice.
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/hwny-tubman.html
9. "You'll be free or die a slave!" was a statement Harriet Tubman would make to a slave having
second thoughts during an escape. Although this seems like a violent threat, how was she
protecting herself and the other fugitives with her?
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/tubman/aa_tubman_rail_2.ht
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10. Watch this short video. Why was Harriet Tubman successful as a spy for the Union during
the Civil War?
http://www.biography.com/people/harriet-tubman-9511430/videos/harriettubman-union-spy-15036995841