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Underground Railroad
Ohio Standards
Question | Answer |
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fugitive slave escaping on the Underground Railroad | passenger |
owner of a plantation who has complete control over slaves | Master |
person who could go to the North capture, and return a slave to his/her master and receive a reward | slave catcher |
person who is against slavery | Abolitionist |
person who is helping a fugitive slave on the Underground Railroad | conductor |
required Northerners to help arrest fugitive slaves. Blacks had no right to a trial by jury. Those who helped runaway slaves could be fined $1,000 and be jailed for 6 months. | Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 |
safe place where a fugitive slave could rest | station |
secret organization that helped slaves escape from Southern United States plantations to Canada or other places of safety before the abolition of slavery | Underground Railroad |
slave who is running away from the plantation and his/her master | fugitive |
very large farm in the South where slave labor is used for agricultural products such as tobacco, cotton, indigo | plantation |
A book describing the horrors of slavery that convinced many Northerners to be anti-slavery | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Group who wrote newspapers against slavery | Anti-Slavery Society |