Compléter Wordly Wise Book 5 - Lesson 10Version en ligne Wordly Wise Book 5 - Lesson 10 par Anthony L 1 pursued bondage reluctant occasions established yearned superior reassurances prohibited opposed liberating eluded numerous available donations 1 . Slavery had many defenders in the Congress of the 1850s . They based their attitude on the belief that the white race was to all others . 2 . Many slave owners claimed that their slaves were happy . The truth was that every slave to be free . 3 . While slave owners thought that there was nothing wrong in owning slaves . They argued that people had been living in for thousands of years . 4 . There was once some uncertainty regarding the year of Harriet Tubman's birth . It has not been that she was born in 1820 . 5 . Harriet Tubman wanted desperately to free as many slaves as possible . She her goal with a single - minded purpose . 6 . The former slave had wealthy friends who wanted to help her . They made money to her whenever she needed it . 7 . The money Tubman earned at various jobs paid for her own living expenses . To do her real work she relied on from her supporters . 8 . She returned to the South many times to help others escape . There were times when she was almost captured by reward hunters . 9 . The $40 , 000 reward for capturing her was a lure for those who hunted Tubman . No one ever received the rewards as she always capture . 10 . The Fugitive Slave Law was passed by Congress in 1850 . It anyone from helping a runaway slave . 11 . It took courage to belong to the Underground Railroad . The law against helping runaway slaves made most people to help Tubman and others like her . 12 . The Civil War tore apart many families . Brothers sometimes brothers , and fathers fought against sons . 13 . Tubman made many trips behind enemy lines . On these she tried to win slaves over to the Northern side . 14 . Slaves were taught to fear the Northern soldiers . Tubman won their trust and was able to offer them that they accepted . 15 . 1863 is a significant year in American history . In that year , President Lincoln signed an order all the slaves in the states fighting for the North .
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