Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad


Question 1
Part A

What inference can be made based on the information in paragraph 3?

Responses

People working on the Underground Railroad cannot be relied on to keep it a secret.

Once they reach the North, persons escaping from slavery are given jobs on the Underground Railroad.

Southerners who oppose slavery set up the Underground Railroad.

Members of the Underground Railroad network are wiling to take great risks to help others to freedom.

Question 2
Part B

Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

Responses

“The network provided transportation, money, safe houses, and other resources to the travelers.”


“Details about the routes and the stops were only shared among a few people to protect the entire group.”


"In Southern states, people caught sheltering the travelers could be jailed up to six months and fined."

""As a reaction to the cruel institution of slavery, the Underground Railroad was formed in the early nineteenth century."