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Students investigate the Underground Railroad to determine the choices that people made. To help, to stay, to do nothing, to break the law to enforce the law, to feed runaways are some of the choices that made a difference. This difference is explore

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consumers, scarcity, consumption, delegates, volunteering

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capital resource, consumer, consumption, delegate, human resource, scarcity, volunteer, want, social studies
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3rd - 8th
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Social Studies & History
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