1820
1. What was
Harriet’s full name and nickname?
2. In what state was the plantation of her master Edward Brodess in
Dorchester County situated?
3. What was her mother’s name? her
father’s name?
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1825
4. What was her first job?
5. Why did she have to move to Brodess?
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1833
6. What serious problem did Harriet have?
7. What consequences did that incident
have on her life?
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1840
8. How old was her father when he was
manumitted?
9. Why couldn’t she benefit from the
same treatment?
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1844
10. Who was John Tubman ?
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1849
11. What
happened to her owner,
Brodess?
12. What consequences did that have on three
of her sisters, Linah, Soph and Mariah Ritty?
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September 17
13. What did Harriet and her brothers, Ben and Henry, do?
14. Did Ben and Henry stay ? Why?
15. What was The Cambridge Democrat and what did they do?
16. Where did Harriet go ? And who
helped her?
17. Why did she change her name to Harriet ?
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1850
18. After the passing of the
Fugitive Slave Law as part of the Compromise of 1850what did she do?
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December 1850
19. Why was that an important date?
20. How many people were concerned?
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1851
21. What happened to her husband?
22. Why did she decide to change the route of the Underground
Railroad to Canada.
23. Where did she establish her basis for working?
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1858
24. What she called “General Tubman”? Who called her so?
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1859
25. What happened to John Brown ?
26. Who was the US Senator, William H Seward? And what role did he play in Harriet’s life?
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1860
27. What was her last mission?
28. Why couldn’t she save her sister?
29. Who became the
new President of the United States?
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1861
30. What roles did Harriet play during
the American Civil War?
31. How did Harriet help General David
Hunter during the war?
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1863
32. When Tubman lead an assault during the
Civil War in the Combahee River Raid, how many slaves were set free?
33. What important law was passed to set the slaves free ?
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1865
34. Where did Tubman go at the end of the War?
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1869
35. What changed in Harriet’s life ?
36. Where did they make their decision official?
37. Who wrote the first biography on
Harriet’s life ? What was its life?
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1873
38. Why did Tubman borrow money?
39. What happened to that money?
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1874
40. Who was Gertie?
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1880
41. What
happened to Tubman’s
house ?
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1886
42. What’s the
title of the second
biography on Harriet’s life?
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October 18, 1888
43. What happened to her husband?
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1898
44. What role
did Tubman play in the
women’s rights?
45. Why did Tubman undergo brain surgery
at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital?
46. Why did she refuse anesthesia and
what did she do instead?
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1903
47. What happened to Tubman’s property?
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1908
48. What’s the name of the institution
that was created on her property?
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1913
49. How did Harriet Tubman die ?
50. How was she buried?
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C 1820 – Harriet Ross Tubman, born Araminta ((her nickname was “Minty” ) Ross, was born a slave in the plantation of Edward Brodess in Dorchester County, Maryland. Her mother was Harriet “Rit” Green owned by Mary Pattison Brodess; and her father was Ben Ross owned by Anthony Thomson.
1825 – Young Araminta was hired out to other households. Her first outside job was as a nursemaid where she was violently and frequently beaten when she let the baby cry. She was then hired to set muskrat traps. Because of the nature of the job she fell ill and was sent back to
Brodess.
1833 – Araminta was severely injured in the head with a heavy metal weight aimed at a runaway slave. After the injury she started having seizures which affected her for the rest of her life. She started having premonitions and vivid dreams, she said that God communicated with her.
1840 – Her father, Ben Ross, was manumitted when he turned 45 years old. She found out that her mother’s owner’s will stipulated that she and her children be manumitted when they reached 45 years old. Brodess refused to honor his mother’s will.
1849 – Harriet fell ill. Her owner, Brodess, died leaving the plantation in a dire financial situation. Three of her sisters, Linah, Soph and Mariah Ritty, were sold.
September 17 – Harriet and her brothers, Ben and Henry, escaped from the Poplar Neck Plantation. Ben and Henry had second thoughts and returned to the plantation. The newspaper The Cambridge Democrat published a $300 reward for the return of Harriet and her two brothers. Harriet travelled 90 miles to Pennsylvania, a free state, using the Underground Railroad.
She changed her name to Harriet in honor of her mother and took her husband’s last name, Tubman.
1850 – Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law as part of the Compromise of 1850. Started working with Quaker abolitionist Thomas Garrett and Frederick Douglass.
December 1850 – Using her connections in the Underground Railroad, Harriet took her first trip to guide a family in their journey to freedom. Her niece, Kessiah, her husband, John Bowley, and their two children were freed from the bondage of slavery.
1851 – Returned for her husband but he refused to leave. He stayed in Dorchester County with his new wife Caroline.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made Tubman re route the Underground Railroad to Canada. For the next six years her base of operation was in North Street, St. Catherines, Ontario.
1858 – Tubman met John Brown. She helped recruit supporters for the Harper’s Ferry attack. Brown called her “General Tubman”.
1859 – Harper’s Ferry Raid. John Brown was executed in December.
Abolitionist and US Senator, William H Seward, sold Tubman a piece of land on the outskirts of Auburn, New York for
$1,200. It became her home for the rest of her life.
1860 – She took her last mission to rescue her sister. When she arrived she found
out that she had died. Instead she took the Ennals family.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States.
1861 – Beginning of the
American Civil War. Tubman worked as a cook and nurse in South Carolina and Florida.
Tubman helped General David
Hunter recruit former slaves for a regiment of African American soldiers. She
served as a spy and scout under the command of Col. James Montgomery.
1863 – Tubman became the first woman to lead an assault during the Civil War in
the Combahee River Raid where 700 slaves where set free.
President Abraham
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation setting slaves in the Confederacy free.
1865 – End of the Civil War. Tubman returned home to Auburn, New York.
1869 – Harriet Tubman married Nelson Davis, 22 years younger than her. They were married in the Presbyterian Church.
Sarah Hopkins Bradford
published a biography of Tubman, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. She got $1,200 from its publication.
1873 – Tubman borrowed money from a friend to buy gold. Before the exchange
Tubman was attacked and her money stolen.
1874 – The couple adopted a baby girl named Gertie.
1880 – Tubman’s house in Auburn was destroyed by fire.
1886 – Bradford published a second biography, Harriet, the Moses of her People.
October 18, 1888 – Husband Nelson Davis died.
1898 – Tubman became involved in women’s suffrage giving speeches in Boston, New York and Washington.
Unable to sleep, Tubman
underwent brain surgery at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital. She refused
anesthesia and instead chewed on a bullet just like she had seen soldiers do
when they had a leg amputated.
1903 – Tubman donated her property to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
in Auburn to be converted into a home for the “aged and indigent colored
people”.
1913 – Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia, she was 93. She was buried with military honors at Fort
Hill Cemetery in Auburn, New York.
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