LET’S PLAY JEOPARDY!! Who Was Harriet Tubman?

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$100 Question from Category 1 This was the item that Harriet took with her when she left her husband

$100 Answer from Category 1 A Quilt

$200 Question from Category 1 Packages, bundles, parcels

$200 Answer from Category 1 What were the names given to slaves that were escaping on the Underground Railroad.

$300 Question from Category 3 Union states were in this area.

$300 Answer from Category 1 What was the North? Union States

$400 Question from Category 1 DOUBLE JEOPARDY This was the document signed by Abraham Lincoln that finally gave all slaves their freedom.

$400 Answer from Category 1 What was the Emancipation Proclamation.

$500 Question from Category 1 A religious group that wore plain clothes, lived a simple life, and helped many slaves escape.

$500 Answer from Category 1 Who were the Quakers.

$100 Question from Category 2 Mr. Brodas, The Cooks, Miss Susan

$100 Answer from Category 2 People who “owned” Harriet.

$200 Question from Category 2 Married another person when Harriet escaped.

$200 Answer from Category 2 John Tubman

$300 Question from Category 2 Confederate states were in this area.

$300 Answer from Category 2 What was the South.

$400 Question from Category 2 Any person who thought slavery was evil and wanted to end it was given this title.

$400 Answer from Category 2 What was an abolitionist.

$500 Question from Category 2 Harriet pretended to do this in order to escape those who were after her.

$500 Answer from Category 2 What was read a book.

$100 Question from Category 3 DOUBLE JEOPARDY A person who was forced to do work and not given any pay for doing the job.

$100 Answer from Category 3 What was a slave.

$200 Question from Category 3 Some of the disguises that Harriet used to escape from the slave catchers.

$200 Answer from Category 3 What were she dressed like a man and wore fancy ladies clothes with a veil on her face.

$300 Question from Category 3 Two things that Harriet did to make sure she was always heading north.

$300 Answer from Category 3 Follow the North Star, check the moss on the north side of a tree, and watch the way the geese were flying in the spring.

$400 Question from Category 3 This item was used to protect Harriet’s identity.

$400 Answer from Category 3 What was a bandana.

$500 Question from Category 3 Along with Harriet, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony fought for these rights.

$500 Answer from Category 3 What were Women’s Rights?

$100 Question from Category 4 The pen of this animal is where Harriet hid for five days.

$100 Answer from Category 4 What is a pig?

$200 Question from Category 4 DOUBLE JEOPARDY The war in which Harriet became a spy.

$200 Answer from Category 4 What was the Civil War?

$300 Question from Category 4 Often put in a window to show the slaves a safe house.

$300 Answer from Category 4 What is a light?

$400 Question from Category 4 The nickname that was given to Harriet when she was young.

$400 Answer from Category 4 What was Minty?

$500 Question from Category 4 This act gave the slave catchers the legal right to go into the northern states to capture runaway slaves.

$500 Answer from Category 4 What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

$100 Question from Category 5 The name of Harriet’s mom and dad

$100 Answer from Category 5 Who were Ben and Old Rit?

$200 Question from Category 5 Harriet used herbs and roots for this purpose.

$200 Answer from Category 5 What was to make medicine.

$300 Question from Category 5 This was changed after Harriet was hit in the head. Why?

$300 Answer from Category 5 What was her name to show that she was growing up.

$400 Question from Category 5 With money she earned at the hotel, Harriet bought one of these.

$400 Answer from Category 5 What was a gun?

$500 Question from Category 5 DOUBLE JEOPARDY The reason for checking the teeth and muscles of a slave.

$500 Answer from Category 5 What was you could tell how old a slave was, and how strong they were.

Final Jeopardy Make a list of ten items that could be very useful to a slave traveling on the Underground Railroad.

Final Jeopardy Answer Answers will vary.