The Underground Railroad Vocabulary Words
Across
- 2. religious songs sung by the slaves to lift their spirits and relay coded information
- 4. escaped slave and one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad; helped lead over 300 slaves to freedom
- 5. a secret network of people and places that helped runaway slaves get to freedom
- 6. a person who assisted in the planning and execution of an escape
- 7. those who owned slaves
- 8. a person running away to avoid being captured
- 10. law passed in 1850 requiring that escaped slaves be returned to their owners no matter where in the United States they were found
- 12. to make a difference in treatment or favor based on something other than individual merit
- 15. people who guided escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad
- 16. men who searched for escaped slaves
- 17. used by slaves to find their way north and to freedom
- 19. people who wanted to end slavery in the United States
- 21. the power to do what you want to and not be controlled by another
- 22. a person without freedom who is owned by another and is made to work for free
Down
- 1. slave states that did not secede from the United States.
- 2. people who allowed runaway slaves to hide in their homes
- 3. issued by President Lincoln, this document declared that slaves in rebel states were free
- 9. a person who made money by finding escaped slaves, capturing them, and returning to owners
- 11. to be set free from slavery
- 13. buying and selling of African American people for profit
- 14. after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed, thousands of slaves escaped to Canada where this law was ineffective
- 18. a free or enslaved person hired to assigned the job of labor-management of slaves on a particular farm
- 20. a place where fleeing slaves could seek food and shelter