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Down1. The name of a network of trails, safe houses, andconductors that helped enslaved African Americans escape slavery2. A famous conductor on the Underground Railroadwho guided more than 300 African Americans to freedom4. The angular distance of a point north or south of thecelestial equator6. The projection of the Earth's equator into space9. A conductor on the Underground Railroad who wouldtravel from plantation to plantation teaching slaves the song 'Follow the Drinking Gourd'11. A branch of science that studies celestial objectsand the universe13. Another name for the North Star15. Another name for the Big Dipper

Across3. The distance of a point east of the First Point ofAries, measured along the celestial equator and expressed in hours, minutes, and seconds5. A river that freedom seekers would follow that cutsthrough Mississippi and Alabama7. Another name for the Big Dipper8. A system which lasted legally for hundreds of yearsin which African peoples and their descendants were enslaved10. Another name for the Big Dipper12. Abraham Lincoln's declaration which officiallyended slavery in the United States in 186314. Another name for the Little Dipper16. Another name for the Little Dipper

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Down1. The name of a network of trails, safe houses, andconductors that helped enslaved African Americans escape slavery (undergroundrailroad)2. A famous conductor on the Underground Railroadwho guided more than 300 African Americans to freedom (harriettubman)4. The angular distance of a point north or south of thecelestial equator (declination)6. The projection of the Earth's equator into space(celestialequator)9. A conductor on the Underground Railroad who wouldtravel from plantation to plantation teaching slaves the song 'Follow the Drinking Gourd' (peglegjoe)11. A branch of science that studies celestial objectsand the universe (astronomy)13. Another name for the North Star (polaris)15. Another name for the Big Dipper (bigbear)

Across3. The distance of a point east of the First Point ofAries, measured along the celestial equator and expressed in hours, minutes, and seconds (rightascension)5. A river that freedom seekers would follow that cutsthrough Mississippi and Alabama (tombigbeeriver)7. Another name for the Big Dipper (drinkinggourd)8. A system which lasted legally for hundreds of yearsin which African peoples and their descendants were enslaved (slavery)10. Another name for the Big Dipper (ursamajor)12. Abraham Lincoln's declaration which officiallyended slavery in the United States in 1863 (emancipationproclamation)14. Another name for the Little Dipper (littlebear)16. Another name for the Little Dipper (ursaminor)