What is the term underground railroad?

Answer 1

Answer The term was used to describe the underground network of safe houses used to transport slaves out of the Southern slave-states to the free-states of the North during the Civil War period.

Answer 2

The underground railroad isn't actually a railroad, it's just a term that meant that their activities had to be carried out in secret. The passageway ranged from 14 different Northern states and through Canada. This passageway helped slaves escape.

Answer 3

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.

Answer 4

to provide safe passage for fugitive slaves to the North