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The system of escape routes and hiding places for runaway slaves was called the Underground Railroad.?
True.
What was the Underground Railroad-?
The Underground Railroad was used to help slaves in the U.S. escape to states that were free, or to Canada. The railroad was a system of safe houses and secret routes.
Who is the Underground Railroad?
The Underground Railroad was not a person or a railroad, it was a network of secret routes that allowed slaves to escape to free states in the mid 1800s, created by Harriet Tubman.
How did Abolitionists fix the tracks on the Underground Railroad?
The Underground Railroad wasn't a literal railroad, so there were no tracks. It was a metaphor for the routes that escaped slaves took on their journey North.
Was a system of routes that escaping slaves followed to freedom?
The Underground Railroad
The network of escape routes out of south for enslaved people was the?
The Underground Railroad
What Network of secret routes that allowed slaves to escape to the north?
Underground Railroad
What is the symbolic meaning of the underground railroad's name?
The underground railroad was named for the slaves' method of escape to freedom. "Underground" means the movement was secret and intentionally took place below the awareness of public officials and most members of society. The "railroad" designation took its name from the code for safe houses, which were called "stations" or "depots," and the participating abolitionists, who were called "station masters." In many respects, the underground railroad resembled a real railroad operation in that there were fixed routes, conductors, stations or depots, and a final destination. The underground railroad was the support network for slaves' freedom train.
What system used secret routes to help slaves?
the pony express The Underground Railroad.
What was the system of escape routes for southern slaves known as?
They were collectively known as the underground railroad.
Is the 1800s Underground Railroad Under the ground?
No, its called the underground railroad because they were "hidden".
What were slaves escaping on the railroad called?
underground railroad
