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1. Explore the page that is tagged below. In at least two paragraphs that are about ten sentences a piece to answer the following questions: 1. When the "railroad" started? 2. Why did the "railroad" begin? 3. Who traveled the railroad? 4. Where were the routes that could be taken on the railroad? 5. What were so occurrences that happened on the railroad? pathways.thinkport.org : use this webpage and the pages that are connected to it to answer the following questions. 2. Look at each of the maps of three different routes that could occur be taken on the "railroad" uses these maps to either decide what route you would take to freedom, where you would look for a runaway slave, or how you would help the efforts of the "railroad" . Use mapquest to make you journey results based on the decisions made from the map. 3. Look at one of the supporters of the "railroad" and write a paragraph (4-8 sentences) about them. Later you will work this person into your journal entry. Quakers http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/speccoll/quakersandslavery/commentary/organizations/underground_railroad.php Frederick Douglass http://freedomcenter.org/content/frederick-douglass Harriet Tubman http://freedomcenter.org/heroes/harriet-tubman 4. Look at the laws that were supported by individuals who were against the "railroad" and there efforts to end the railroad. Compromise of 1850 http://www.ushistory.org/us/30d.asp Fugitive Slave Law http://www.nationalcenter.org/FugitiveSlaveAct.html 5. Watch the video to gain you last bits of information on the Underground Railroad. 6. Use all the information that you have gained through the webquest in order to create your own journal entry(or entries) about your time on the Underground Railroad. |
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land- Harriet Tubman