LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
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A network of secret routes and safe houses starting in theNorth and leading to the South.
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A network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States.
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A network of well-known routes and safe houses used American Indians escaping persecution.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Underground Railroad was a secret network of abolitionists (people who wanted to abolish slavery). They helped African Americans escape from enslavement in the American South to free Northern states or to Canada. The Underground Railroad was the largest anti-slavery freedom movement in North America.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Underground Railroad was a network of people working to take enslaved people from the southern United States to freedom in the northern U.S. and Canada. The Underground Railroad was the network used by enslaved black Americans to obtain their freedom in the 30 years before the Civil War (1860-1865).
Detailed explanation-3: -The Underground Railroad refers to a network of secret routes and hiding places for runaway slaves to escape to freedom in the 19th century. Abolitionists and other people sympathetic to the plight of slaves would help guide people in the middle of the night to free states and Canada.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Underground Railroad was established to aid enslaved people in their escape to freedom. The railroad was comprised of dozens of secret routes and safe houses originating in the slaveholding states and extending all the way to the Canadian border, the only area where fugitives could be assured of their freedom.