Video Questions: Underground Railroad, pt 1

1.What were the difficulties for women in escaping from the south?
2 How many people made passage through the UndergroundRailroad?
3.Where were the first slaves brought in North America? The English colonies?
4.What sorts of images are used in the video to portray thecondition and experiences of slavery?
5.How many colonies allowed slavery prior to 1776?
6. Who would assist Africans as they attempted to escape slavery? Why?
7. Who else assisted Africans in escaping slavery and what were their conditions?
8. Where was the first legally free black community in North America?
9. What was the situation faced by slaves in the War for Independence?
10. What was the most important American export in the1840's?
11. What was the Mason Dixon Line and why was it important to slaves?
12. What obstacles did slaves face in trying to find the North?
13. What ways did Africans pass along information on how to find the North?
14. Who were the Abolitionists?
15. Why were Northerners skeptical about abolishing slavery ?
16. Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
17. Who was Frederick Douglass?
18. Why was it against the law for slaves to learn to read and write?
19. What did Frederick Douglass' writings do for the Abolitionist Movement?
20. Who was William Still?
21. Who was Henry Box Brown?
22. Who was Samuel Smith?
23. What was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
24. What were its implications for free blacksin the North?
25. How was the experience of blacks in Canada different than in the USA?
26. What positive effects did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 have on the Abolitionist Movement?