"<span>d// all of the above" are correct regarding the Underground Railroad. Although there were indeed several established paths, many paths had to be improvised to elude capture.</span>
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In the last decade of the 19th century, African Americans suffered segregation, exclusion, discrimination and racism. The Civil War assured the freedom of around 4 million black people. Despite the adoption of the 14th amendment and being given legal rights to elect and be elected, black people faced huge social and political inequality.
In the South, state legislatures had passed a series of laws that impeded African Americans from participating in elections. Poll taxes and literacy tests were put in place and turned into formidable barriers for the black southern populations given their poverty and lack of education. Those were the Jim Crow laws.
In 1896, a landmark US Supreme Court decision upheld segregated but equal faciliities for different racial groups as constitutional, validating the Jim Crow laws. That was the situation of African Americans by the late 19th century.
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Answer: B. Bunker Hill
Explanation: The famous The Battle of Bunker Hill is described here. This battle was fought on June 17, 1775, at the siege of Boston. It was named after Bunker Hill, which was one of the strategic sites near Boston (Charlestown, Massachusetts) to preserve Boston Harbour. Specifically, patriotic forces besieged Boston and knowing that British troops would try to secure the surrounding hills, with a view to the aforementioned preservation of the port of Boston. In response, the Patriots sent 1,200 men to Bunker Hill to thwart the British intentions and win a great victory even though the patriotic soldiers were far less well trained than the British, who reported heavy losses.
