Word List Underground Railroad 167 words

Underground Railroad Vocabulary Word List (167)

• A

  abolitionist, action, African Americans, aims, ambitious, anxiety, attempts

• B

  beatings, border, bravery

• C

  captive, capture, catch, caught, cause, caution, cellar, circumstance, clandestine, committed, compassion, Confederate, consequences, conspire, courageous, cruelly, cruelty

• D

  dangerous, dank, dark, darkness, dates, death, despair, desperation, detection, determination, discovery, distract, division, divisive, documentation, dramatic

• E

  emancipation, endanger, enforce, equality, escape, evidence, exhaustion, existence, exposure

• F

  failure, families, farms, fear, fence, fervor, focus, frantic, free, freedom, frighten, fugitive, furtive

• G

  goal, groups

• H

  help, hidden, historic, history, hope, horrifying, human, humane

• I

  ideal, illegal, implication, intense

• J

  jeopardy, judgments, justice

• K

  killing, kindness

• L

  law, legacy, legal, lethal, logistics, loss

• M

  Mason-Dixon line

• N

  necessity, need, network, nighttime, North, northward

• O

  objective, operation, organization, outbuildings, ownership

• P

  papers, peek, Pennsylvania, persistence, planning, plantation, prevention, prey, proof, protection, punishment

• Q

  quake, Quaker, query, quest, quiet

• R

  railroad, record, remembrance, reward, rights, risk, runaway

• S

  sacrifice, scared, secluded, secret, secretive, separation, setbacks, signal, silence, slave catcher, slavery, sneak, sold, souls, southern states, stations, stops, striving, successful, support, survival, suspect, suspicion

• T

  terrifying, threaten, trail, travel, trek, trial, trouble, tunnel

• U

  underground, unjust

• V

  victorious, vow

• W

  will, witness, woe, worry

• X

• Y

  yearn

• Z

  zeal