1. During which years was the Underground Railroad most widespread?

2. Why was the Ohio River the center of activity?

3. Who supported abolitionist ideas?

4. What specific words were created/used and what did they mean?

5. Where is the Borderland?

6. Why did enslaved individuals want to go to Canada?

7. Why was the Great Dismal Swamp a good area to hide?

8. What role did Florida play in the Underground Railroad?

1.The Underground Railroad Era 1820-1860.

Explanation:

2.For many enslaved people the Ohio River was more than a body of water. Crossing it was a huge step on the path to freedom. Serving as natural border between free and slave states, individuals opposed to slavery set up a network of safe houses to assist escaped slaves seeking freedom.

3.The abolitionist movement spanned decades. Although slavery did not end peacefully, great Americans like William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher Stowe were some of the driving forces behind the anti-slavery movement.

5.The borderland ... included the southern halves of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, all of trans-Alleghany Virginia, and all but insignificant parts of Kentucky and Missouri.

6.Citizens of what soon became Canada were long involved in aiding fugitive slaves escape slave-holding southern states via the Underground Railroad. In the mid-1800s, a hidden network of men and women, white and black, worked with escaped slaves to help them to freedom in the northern U.S. and Canada.

7.The difficult conditions also made the swamp an ideal hiding place, not just for the formerly enslaved but also for free blacks, slaves who worked on the swamp's canals, Native Americans, and outcast whites such as criminals

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