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The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a railroad. It was a secret network of people and safe places that helped enslaved people escape to freedom in the northern United States and Canada before the Civil War.
Escapes were dangerous. People traveled mostly at night, following the North Star. They hid in barns, cellars and secret rooms in the homes of "conductors" who risked fines and prison to help them.
Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery herself in 1849, returned to the South about thirteen times and guided around seventy people to freedom. She later said she "never lost a passenger."
The Underground Railroad shows how ordinary people, Black and white, worked together to resist an unjust system.
Vocabulary: network — use clues to define it: ________________
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Free Grade 5 English worksheet (Common Core RI.5.4): analyze text structure, word meaning and author’s purpose in "The Underground Railroad". Skill: Word choice, structure and point of view. Level: Grade 5 — also suits Year 6 (UK).
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Word choice, structure and point of view.
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