Harriet Tubman's Life Trivia Quiz

Answer: Horace Mann

William Still and Thomas Garrett were station masters. She worked with Thomas Garrett in Wilmington, Delaware and William Still in Philadelphia. She helped Charles Nalle escape from custody in 1860. This was Tubman's first public act of freeing a black person. She never worked with Horace Mann, who was the man who created the concept of high school.

Answer: She did all these things.

She visited Boston, Massachusetts, in 1860. While she was there she did all the things mentioned. She visited Ralph Waldo Emerson's house, met Louisa May Alcott's family, and had tea with Horace Mann's wife. She also attended the New England Anti-Slavery Society Conference. While in Boston she also did some public speaking.

Answer: Harriet Garrison

She took on the pseudonym Harriet Garrison when she spoke in public. This was a precaution she took to ensure that she could still spread her messages, while still protected from being caught and sent back to the South. She got the name from William Lloyd Garrison, whom she admired greatly.

Answer: A maid

She worked as a maid. She had worked in this capacity as a child. By the time she was five she was doing household chores at the plantation where she lived. She was later sent out to other plantations to help. Later she was assigned to work in the fields.

Answer: True

Congress made it illegal to help runaway slaves in 1850. It was only after this that she went back to help slaves escape. The act passed by Congress was called the Fugitive Slave Act. It made any federal marshal or official who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave liable to pay $1,000, and said that officials now had a duty to arrest anyone suspected of being a runaway with only a sworn testimony of ownership.

Answer: Charles Nalle

She helped Charles Nalle escape from the custody of US marshals in a court house. He was supposed to be sent back to the South. Nalle was arrested by US Deputy Marshall John W. Holmes and Henry Wale, a slave catcher from Stevensberg, Virginia. He escaped to Niskayuna and stayed in a secret location until it was safe to return.

Answer: Nurse, cook, scout and spy

She worked for the Union army as a nurse, cook, scout, and spy. She was not paid by the army for these services she provided. As a nurse she found a cure for a disease. She helped deliver clothes and supplies. She took control of the Christian Commission House in Beaufort that was set up by YMCA to distribute clothes, food and books to Union soldiers. She taught recently freed black women household tasks such as sewing, washing and baking.

Answer: Pies and root beer

She made pies and root beer. She sold it to soldiers to make money. She did this because she was not paid by the Union army for her services. She did receive money from the government, but that money was for the building of a "wash house."

Answer: True

As a nurse she found a cure for a disease called dysentery. The disease was common among the soldiers. Common symptoms included diarrhea. The cure came from boiled water lilies and geraniums.

Answer: 20

They were married in 1888. He was a soldier and he was 20 years younger than her. She met him while guiding a group of black soldiers in South Carolina.
They were married until she died on March 10, 1913 from pneumonia.