Freedom and Human Desire for Autonomy Quiz

To go where they wanted to go, get the fruits of their own work, form their own families, walk with dignity, look somebody in the eye as an equal human being, and have a share in making the world they lived in.

Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the Underground Railroad who ran away to freedom and went back 19 times to slave territory to help bring others to freedom.

The Emancipation Proclamation declared free the slaves not in the entire country, but in most of the Confederacy.

<p>200,000 blacks ran away from slavery to join the Union Army, while another million stayed behind, stopped working, and sabotaged the Confederate economy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They flocked to the Union Army, worked the land together in little plots, shared seeds, tools, and technology to create a vision of freedom.</p> Signup and view all the answers