The Two Harriet’s Heroines of the Civil War

What is an abolitionist?

• someone who was in favor of slavery

• someone who was well-educated

• someone who wanted to get rid of slavery

• someone who has escaped from slavery

How does the author compare Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe?

• They were both abolitionists.

• They were both African-Americans.

• They were both famous authors.

• They both worked for the Union Army.

Harriet Tubman’s work to improve the lives of African-Americans continued after the Civil War. What evidence from the passage supports this conclusion?

• “But Tubman was not content simply to live in freedom. She became active in the Underground Railroad Harriet Beecher Stowe had written about.”

• “In her 80s, Harriet Tubman opened a nursing home in her adopted hometown of Auburn, NY for older African-Americans.”

• “Just one year after her own escape, she returned to the South to rescue her sister and her sister’s two children. Then she returned once again for one of her brothers.”

• “During the Civil War, Tubman worked for the Union Army as a nurse and a cook. She also became a spy.”

Read the following sentences: “[Harriet Tubman] also became a spy. In one daring mission, she learned the position of the Confederate Army along the Combahee River in South Carolina and traveled on a gunboat with hundreds of Union Army soldiers as they freed about 750 slaves.” Based on this information, what can you conclude about Harriet Tubman?

• She was kind.

• She was generous.

• She was modest.

• She was brave.

What is this passage mostly about?

• two women named Harriet and their roles in helping to end slavery

• two women named Harriet and their lives during the Civil War

• how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book helped start the Civil War

• how Harriet Tubman led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad