Harriet Tubman – Flashcards

American abolitionist. Born a slave on a Maryland plantation, she escaped to the North in 1849 and became the most renowned conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading more than 300 slaves to freedom.

A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North

Dairy of ones travels

a sudden short attack

A war between people of the same country.

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders

Nickname made by northerners of the Fugitive Slave Act that were opposed to it.

Harriet Tubman led the ___________ during the Civil War and helped liberate more than 700 slaves in South Carolina.

one of the first black units in the US Armed Forces. Earned place in history at Fort Wagner

goods that have been imported or exported illegally