G February 2009

Profile of Harriet Tubman

video lesson

First watch the video at: http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&vid=b3f6868a-806d-

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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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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