The Underground Railroad

According to the text, what helped show Black men and women the way from the slavery of the southern U.S. to freedom in the northern U.S.?

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  the U.S. Civil War

• the Underground Railroad

• the Union army

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  the gravestone of Harriet Tubman

What does the author describe in the text?

• where famous Underground Railroad stations were located

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  how slavery started in the United States

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  what U.S. railroads were underground before the Civil War

• how the Underground Railroad functioned

Harriet Tubman was courageous and hard-working. What evidence from the text supports this conclusion?

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  “White men might capture anyone who left. Then the whole group would be in danger.”

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  “After [Harriet Tubman] escaped slavery herself, she risked her life again and again to help hundreds of other enslaved Black men and women escape.”

• “The people who helped others escape slavery were called conductors. Harriet Tubman is one of the most famous conductors.”

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  “The railroad was so secret that each station along the way knew only about the house before it and the house after it.”

Based on the text, how could the Underground Railroad best be described?

• dangerous and difficult

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  easy and short

• cold and relaxing

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  long and wrong

What is this text mostly about?

• how railroads helped the North defeat the South in the U.S. Civil War

• a well-known legend about Harriet Tubman

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  a system that helped enslaved Black people escape to the North

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  laws that made it difficult for enslaved Black people to escape to the North

Read these sentences from the text.

Before the U.S. Civil War, it was illegal to help enslaved people escape because they were considered property. However, many people in the U.S. thought slavery was morally wrong. They were willing to put themselves at risk to help enslaved people escape.

As used in these sentences, what does the word “illegal” mean?

• confusing

• considered good

• against the law

• very correct