Which of the Following Statements About the Underground Railroad Is

question 14

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about the Underground Railroad is LEAST accurate?

• A)Many slaves escaped by pretending to be whites.
• B)Both black and white southerners assisted the Railroad's operations in the South.
• C)The Railroad operated in such secrecy that slaveholders had no awareness of its existence.
• D)Although the number cannot be established precisely,tens of thousands of slaves may have escaped along the Railroad.

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Significance Level

A threshold within hypothesis testing that determines whether to reject the null hypothesis, often denoted by alpha (α) and representing the probability of a Type I error.

Kilometres

A unit of length in the metric system equal to 1,000 meters, commonly used to measure distances between geographical locations.

Mean Number

The average value of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all numbers by the count of those numbers.

Significance Level

In hypothesis testing, the threshold below which the p-value must fall for the results to be considered statistically significant, commonly set at 0.05.