Drill 14 · Multiple Choice · Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance
AP African American Studies: Abolitionism, the Underground Railroad, and the Civil War — Drill 14 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
Practice AP African American Studies exam questions on abolitionism, the Underground Railroad, Black soldiers in the Civil War, and freedom commemoration. These AP exam prep questions cover Harriet Tubman, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, Juneteenth, and the strategies of the antislavery movement.
The following combines two accounts by Harriet Tubman, as preserved in biographical records. The first describes her own 1849 escape from slavery in Maryland; the second, delivered at a women's suffrage convention in 1896, reflects on her years as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
“When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven. I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home, after all, was down in Maryland, because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there. But I was free, and they should be free.”
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
Sources: Harriet Tubman, recollection of her 1849 escape, as recorded by Sarah H. Bradford in Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1869); and remarks at a women's suffrage convention, New York, 1896.