THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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A secret network of people and hiding places to help slaves escape to freedom.
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Rights protected by people.
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Not being controlled by someone.
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Forced to work without pay.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Americans had been helping enslaved people escape since the late 1700s, and by the early 1800s, the secret group of individuals and places that many fugitives relied on became known as the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was not underground, and it wasn’t an actual train.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Underground Railroad-the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War-refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage.
Detailed explanation-3: -6 Strategies Harriet Tubman and Others Used to Escape Along the Underground Railroad. From elaborate disguises to communicating in code to fighting back, enslaved people found multiple paths to freedom. From elaborate disguises to communicating in code to fighting back, enslaved people found multiple paths to freedom.
Detailed explanation-4: -The goal of most fugitive slaves was Canada, but some found freedom in Mexico and on the islands in the Caribbean Sea. After the Civil War, many returned to the United States.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.