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February 2009
Profile of Harriet Tubman video lesson First watch the video at: http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&vid=b3f6868a-806d4841-abec-c05f96579cc5 Comprehension Questions: 1. What did Harriet Tubman encourage her family to do? 2. What did Harriet Tubman like to do with the young children in her family? 3. In what year did she die? 4. Was her niece able to go to her great aunt’s funeral? Why or why not? 5. By what nickname was Harriet Tubman known? 6. When and where was she born? 7. How many times did she make the dangerous journey from South to North bring slaves to freedom? 8. How many slaves did she free? 9. What was the escape route called? 10. How did they travel? 11. Where did she hide her fugitives during the day? 12. Where was the end of the line and why? 13. What did she do during the Civil War? 14. What did the slaves do for the Union soldiers? 15. Why did Harriet stay in the camps with the soldiers? 16. What did Harriet keep in her basket? 17. Why did she carry a gun? 18. Why did she give paregoric to the babies 19. Where did she live the rest of her life after the war? 20. What did she do in New York? 21. How much was her pension from the Congress? 22. What does Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad represent today?
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February 2009
Answers: 1. To study, be religious and be cleanly 2. To sit on the front porch and listen to the children’s stories 3. 1913 4. No, she was quarantined in the house with scarlet fever 5. the Moses of her people 6. About 1820 in Maryland 7. 19 times 8. 300 slaves 9. The Underground Railroad 10. At night through dangerous terrain such as swamps and rivers 11. caves, graveyards, churches, barns and attics of friendly people 12. Canada because of bounty hunters roaming the North looking for escaped slaves 13. worked as a spy, led a Union soldiers through Southern plantations and encouraged the slaves to abandon their work 14. Brought them food 15. to nurse them when they were sick (both Union and Rebel soldiers) 16. a gun on the bottom, pillows and sometimes a baby 17. to protect everyone with her 18. to keep the babies from crying 19. Auburn, New York 20. Sold vegetables from her garden using the money to help others 21. At first $8, then raised to $25 and ended at $20 22. Lasting symbol of freedom