The Underground Railroad
and
Levi Coffin
2. What is a conductor of the Underground Railroad? Click here.
3. What is an abolitionist? Click here.
4. When and where was Levi Coffin born? Click here.
5. What was the Emancipation Proclamation? Click here.
6. Why did Levi Coffin and his wife move away from North Carolina? Click here.
7. What was the name of the town in Indiana
where Levi Coffin lived (both names)?
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8. List some ways (at least 2) that Levi and Catherine hid the slaves. Click here.
9. What kind of successful business did Levi have? Click here.
10. The Coffins' home was given the title of
_____________________________
on
the path for slaves' freedom in the north and Canada.
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here.
11. In 1847, Levi and Catherine moved again. Where? Click here.
12. Harriet Beecher Stowe supposedly used the
Levi and Catherine Coffin in her
classic novel, ________________________________.
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here.
13. There were many other people that helped in the Underground Railroad.
List 3 and write one important thing about each of those people. Click here.
14. Follow the Drinking Gourd was a
famous song that the slaves sang. About what
were the words referring?
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAScoffin.htm
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/in2.htm
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/j1.html
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