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Underground Railroad Codes

Authored by Deborah Muldawer

History

6th - 8th Grade

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Underground Railroad Codes
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1.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match each definition with the best answer.

Fugitive enslaved people transported by Underground Railroad workers

Agent

Canada

Canaan

Fugitives that were Expected

Baggage

Coordinator who plotted courses of escape and made contacts

Abolitionist

Person who demanded an immediate end to slavery

Bundles of Wood

2.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match each term with the best possible answer.

Large manors in which slaveowners lived

Field Hand

Used to alert other slaves that an escape attempt was anticipated.

Plantations

Enslaved people who did chores like cooking, cleaning, and watching children.

House Servant

Enslaved people who picked crops, usually cotton or tobacco

Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus.

Large farms where enslaved people worked

Big House

3.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match each of the following phrases to the best meaning.

A reminder that tracking dogs

could not follow the scent of fugitives through the water.

The river bank makes a mighty good road.

A visual clue for escapees left by an Underground Railroad worker famous for his wooden leg.

The river ends between two hills.

The Ohio River and its tributaries.

The dead trees will show you the way.

A reminder that moss grows on the north side of dead trees; fugitives would know which way to walk

When the great big river meets the little river.

The Tombigbee River in Mississippi.

Left foot, peg foot.

4.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match each of the following terms to the best possible answer.

Early spring, a particular time of year good for escaping.

Stockholder

A password used to signal arrival of fugitives with an Underground Railroad Conductor

When the sun comes back and the first quail calls.

Someone who gave money, clothing, or food to The Underground Railroad

A friend with friends

A warning that bounty hunters were nearby

The Wind Blows from the South Today

A password used by fugitives traveling alone to indicate they were sent by the Underground Railroad

A friend of a friend sent me

5.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match each term to the best possible answer,

Canada

River Jordan

People who encouraged enslaved people to escape and escorted them

Promised Land

Keeper or Owner of a Safe House

Station Master

Ohio River

Station

Place of safety and temporary refuge, a safe house

Shepherds

6.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match each of the following terms with the best possible answer.

Leaders of and spokespersons for The Underground Railroad

Patty Roller

Fugitives that were expected

Preachers

Harriet Tubman

Parcel

Bounty hunter that was hired to capture runaway enslaved people

Operator

Person who helped freedom seekers as a conductor or agent

Moses

7.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the terms listed below with the best possible answer.

Secret Departure

Gospel Train

Canada, freedom

Jumping off Place

Escaping enslaved people hidden under produce in a wagon

Load of Potatoes

Place of shelter for fugitives

Heaven

The Underground Railroad

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