THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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conductors
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engineers
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -People known as “conductors” guided the fugitive enslaved people. Hiding places included private homes, churches and schoolhouses. These were called “stations, ” “safe houses, ” and “depots.” The people operating them were called “stationmasters.”
Detailed explanation-2: -These eight abolitionists helped enslaved people escape to freedom. These eight abolitionists helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
Detailed explanation-3: -The most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman, who escaped from slavery in 1849. Determined to help others, Tubman returned to her former plantation to rescue family members. Later she started guiding other fugitives from Maryland.
Detailed explanation-4: -Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad-Meet Amazing Americans | America’s Library-Library of Congress. After Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery, she returned to slave-holding states many times to help other slaves escape. She led them safely to the northern free states and to Canada.