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Name: _______________________________________
Core _____
Frederick Douglas – CLOZE Reading Activity
Confederacy
North Star
father
offices
abolish
Lincoln
slave
writer
slavery
Haiti
first
former
Massachusetts
Civil
North
autobiography
Great
newspaper
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass (Feb. 7, 1817-Feb. 20, 1895) was an abolitionist,
orator and _____________________ who fought against slavery and for women's rights. Douglass was
the _____________________ African-American citizen appointed to _____________________ of
high rank in the U.S. government.
Douglass was born into slavery; his mother was a ___________________ and his
_____________________ was white. In 1838, he escaped slavery in Maryland and moved
__________________ to _____________________, where he soon became an international figure in
the fight against slavery. Douglass lectured extensively against _____________________ in the U.S.
and in _____________________ Britain. During the _____________________ War, Douglass met
with U.S. President Abraham ________________ many times, discussing Lincoln's efforts to
________________ slavery and the arming of ____________ slaves to fight the ________________.
In 1847, Douglass started an anti-slavery _____________________ called the _________________
__________________ (it was later called Frederick Douglass's Paper); it was published until 1860.
Douglass served as the assistant secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission (1871). He was later
appointed marshal (1877-81) and recorder of deeds (1881-86) of Washington, D.C. His last
government appointment was as the U.S. minister and consul general to ______________ (1889-91).
Douglass' _____________________, "Life and Times of Frederick newspaper," was published in
1882.
George Washington Carver
slave
orphaned
donated
1943
farmers
scientist
Missouri
child
college
rubber
peanuts
black
teach
farm
cotton
George Washington Carver (1865?-______________) was an American
_______________________, educator, humanitarian, and former _______________________. Carver
developed hundreds of products from _______________________, sweet potatoes, pecans, and
soybeans. His discoveries greatly improved the agricultural output and the health of Southern
_______________________. Before this, the only main crop in the South was
_______________________. The products that Carver invented included a
_______________________ substitute, adhesives, foodstuffs, dyes, pigments, and many other
products.
Carver was born in the state of _______________________ and was sickly as a
_______________________. He was _______________________ when he was young, and was
brought up by Moses and Susan Carver on their _______________________. He began school at age
12 and later attended Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, where he was the first black student. He
transferred to Iowa Agricultural College to study science, earning a Bachelor of Science degree (in
1894) and a Master of Science degree in bacterial botany and agriculture (in 1897). He then became
the first _______________________ faculty member at that _______________________.
Booker T. Washington convinced Carver to _______________________ at the Tuskegee Normal
and Industrial Institute for Negroes (now called Tuskegee University) in Alabama, USA, where Carver
headed the agricultural department for 50 years. Carver _____________________ his life savings to a
fund designed to encourage agricultural research.
Harriet Tubman
Tubman
Slavery
Underground
Brown
Civil
died
Championing
Maryland
300
spy
family
Southern
Moses
North
19
Union
rights
Araminta Harriet Greene _______________________ (1820 - 1913) devoted her life to fighting
slavery, helping slaves and ex-slaves, and __________________________ the rights of women. An
incredibly brave woman, she was known as the "________________ of her people."
Araminta Harriet Greene was born a slave in ___________________________. In 1844, Harriet
married John Tubman, who was a free man. She escaped ________________________ in 1849 and
traveled north. She then became a conductor for the Underground Railroad and helped slaves flee to
freedom in the __________________________ (both to Northern US states and to Canada).
The ______________________________ Railroad was a secret system of people of all races who
helped slaves escape to the North - it was not an actual railroad. Harriet Tubman made ________
dangerous rescue trips over 10 years, rescuing over _____________ slaves from Southern states.
Among the people she saved were many members of her ________________.
Mrs. Tubman helped John _______________ recruit soldiers for his raid on Harpers Ferry (1859).
She worked as a nurse, scout, and a ___________ for the _________________ during the US
_____________________ War (in South Carolina). She continued to help rescue
___________________________ slaves during the war.
After the war, she lived in Auburn, New York, where she founded the Harriet Tubman Home for
Aged Negroes and worked for the voting _______________ of blacks and women. Harriet Tubman
_______________ on March 10, 1913.
Across
3. a man who kept watch over and directed the
work of slaves on a plantation
5. number of states in the Union in which
slavery was legal before the Civil War
10. Moses to her people
12. the state of being owned as property by a
slaveholder
13. role Harriet Tubman played for the Union
during the Civil War
14. to buy, sell and transport slaves for profit
15. someone running away or fleeing from the
law
Down
1. __________________Railroad, the secret
kind
2. a person who helped to lead slaves to freedom
4. a safe house in which runaway slaves could
hide as they traveled north
6. name of Frederick Douglas's newspaper
7. Hunter who hunted for fugitive slaves
8. the President during the Civil War and author
of the Emancipation Proclamation
9. an abolitionist who provided a safe house to
protect runaways
11. the leg of the Triangular Trade in which
Africans were shipped to the Americas to be
sold as slaves