Read the main ideas and key details from “Young Frederick Douglass.”

Select Main Idea 1 or Main Idea 2 to classify each key detail.

Key Detail
Main Idea 1

Douglass puts his education to good use throughout his life.

Main Idea 2

Douglass dedicates his life to helping black people achieve equality.

Douglass publishes an autobiography about his life.

Douglass puts his education to good use throughout his life. – Douglass publishes an autobiography about his life.
Douglass dedicates his life to helping black people achieve equality. – Douglass publishes an autobiography about his life.
He works in different government positions and establishes a newspaper.

Douglass puts his education to good use throughout his life. – He works in different government positions and establishes a newspaper.
Douglass dedicates his life to helping black people achieve equality. – He works in different government positions and establishes a newspaper.
He supports the Underground Railroad, which helps people held in slavery escape.
Douglass puts his education to good use throughout his life. – He supports the Underground Railroad, which helps people held in slavery escape.
Douglass dedicates his life to helping black people achieve equality. – He supports the Underground Railroad, which helps people held in slavery escape.
Douglass gives lectures about the abolitionist cause.
Douglass puts his education to good use throughout his life. – Douglass gives lectures about the abolitionist cause.