Ellie Boggs’s Harriet Tubman Project With The Question’s And Answer’s
Question #1. What is the underground railroad?
The underground railroad was a SECRET system for the slaves to use to get to freedom- places where you weren’t allowed to own slaves.
At first, they would ESCAPE to the northern united states, but then the law changed and they had to go ALL the way to Canada for freedom.
Question #2. Why is it called the underground railroad?
The underground railroad wasn’t REALLY underground. In this case, underground means secret.
Question #3. When was the underground railroad used?
The underground railroad was used from around 1831 to 1865.
Question #4. Who needed to use the underground railroad?
The underground railroad was used by black people who were slaves in the
southern United States.
Question #5. How did the railroad work?
The railroad was made of trails that the RUNAWAY slaves could follow.
The trails lead to the free states or Canada.
Along the trails there were
safehouses, called stations, where slaves could hide, rest, and getsupplies.
Question #6. How did slavery work in the United States?
Around 400 years ago, white people started going to Africa, kidnapping
black people, and bringing them to America to sell them as slaves.
Theybrought them over to America on BOATS.
The conditions on the boats were SOBAD that sometimes a third of them died.
When they got to America, they were sold to white Americans.
Question #7. How did the American slave owners treat their slaves?
The slave owners treated the slaves TERRIBLY. Most slaves worked on cotton
plantations.
They worked very HARD for very long hours every day. Most of them lived in VERY bad conditions and weren’t given ENOUGH food.
The slaveowners often beat or whipped the slaves.
Question #8. Who was Harriet Tubman?
Harriet Tubman was a black woman in the United States. She was born a slave.
That is SO VERYBAD.
When she grew up, she escaped slavery.
After she escaped, she wanted to help other people escape too.
She worked on the underground railroad for around 10 years and helped to free over 100 slaves.
Question #9. Was Harriet Tubman married?
Harriet Tubman married John Tubman around 1844. He was a free black man, and he didn’t want to move north when she escaped slavery, so she moved without him.
Question #10. When was she born?
Harriet Tubman was born around March, 1820. We don’t know EXACTLY what year and date.
Question #11. How long did she live for?
She lived to be around 93 years old.
She died in 1913.
Question #12. How did she get epilepsy?
When she was 12, around 1832, she got in the way of an iron weight being
thrown at another slave. It hit her in the head and she almost died.
The injury left her with epilepsy, which causes seizures.
Question #13. When did Harriet Tubman escape from slavery?
She escaped in 1849.
Question #14. What are some other interesting and cool things about Harriet Tubman?
Fact #1. She was a spy in the civil war.
Fact #2. When Harriet Tubman was born, slavery was legal in the southern
states, but not in the north.
Fact #3. When Harriet Tubman was born, her name was Araminta Ross, or Minty
for short. She changed her name later.
Fact #4. When she worked as an underground railroad conductor, Harriet
Tubman was also given the nickname of Moses, because she freed her people
from slavery, like Moses freed his people.
Fact #5. Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery on her own when she was 30. She
DIDN’T want to leave her family in slavery AT ALL, so she went back and
freed them too.
Fact #6. Harriet Tubman freed other slaves by disguising herself as a man.
She would hide outside the slave quarters and make an owl hoot.
The slaves knew it was her so they would pack up their things and follow her to
freedom.
Fact #7. She died March 10, 1913
Fact #8. Harriet Tubman had 8 siblings
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