Which of the following are characteristics of the Underground Railroad. Check all that apply. 1)It was a group of people who sec
retly helped enslaved people escape to the North. 2)It only operated in the North. 3)It was run by proslavery Southerners. 4)People who helped were called “conductors.”
The characteristics of the Underground Railroad are that of Option 1. and Option 4.
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by African-American slavesto escape into free states and Canada .
The Underground Railroad was a network of people, houses, and roads that led slaves from the South to the North to escape their masters and enjoy freedom in the North and in Canada. Conductors were people who led slaves from one house to another to evade Southern rangers who were looking for their masters' lost slaves.
Based from this information, statements 1 and 4 are characteristics of the Underground Railroad.
<span>"C. Private firms cut canals at key points and connected
rivers" and "D. Thanks to a web of waterways, boats could reach towns they
had never been able to reach before" are both correct, although roads were beginning to be used more as well. </span>
