What was the Underground Railroad?
A. The secret railroad built through the Kansas and Nebraska
territories
O
B. The first railroad line connecting the South and the North
O
C. The secret movement that helped runaway slaves find safety in
Canada
D. A tunnel that ran below the border of Missouri and Kansas

C

Explanation:

It wasn't really a railroad but a secret passage. This fact takes out A and B. Than D it wasn't a tunnel either. IT was a pathway that had houses along the road who helped blacks escape so they survived.

according to the quotation from booker t. washington's 1895 atlanta compromise speech.

in the great leap from slavery to freedom . . the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands . . we shall prosper . . as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor.

washington believed that  hard work had its own kind of dignity.

explanation:

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