The Underground Railroad was
a. the first transcontinental railroad.
b. an informal network of secret routes and safe houses run by abolitionists.
c. a nineteenth-century precursor to the modern subway system.
d. the only transportation open to black Americans, whether free or slave.
e. a railroad owned by mining companies.
ANS: B
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