Most of it benefited the North, so there had to be a big act of appeasement to the South.
Congress couldn't offer them much hope of new slave-states. So they promised to crack down on runaways with the Fugitive Slave Act. This obliged every citizen to report anyone who looked as though he might be a runaway, on pain of a heavy fine. The Northern public was outraged, and 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written as a protest against it.
That bestselling novel caused a new rush of enthusiasm for Abolitionism, and encouraged support for the Underground Railroad.
The compromises that the Northern and Southern states reached were the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise.~A.K. =)
The Fugitive Slave Act. It was so unpopular in the North that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' as a direct protest against it.
compromise of 1850
The government drew imaginary lines, north of which slavery would be illegal, such as the Mason-Dixon line. There were formal compromises, such as the Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850.
compromise of 1850's and the Missouri compromise divided the united states into the north and the south united states.
The Compromise Of 1850.
They made the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
The Compromise of 1850 appeased both North and South in several ways. The South was granted a harsher treatment of fugitive slaves by the North. Both North and South were granted parts of the Texas Territory. At this time, Washington, D.C. still had slaves, but the Compromise of 1850 did away with that practice.
no that's what makes it a compromise
The compromises that the Northern and Southern states reached were the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise.~A.K. =)
The compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850.
Larget Slave Market
Basically the Missouri Compromise of 1850 was a fair compromise. One problem for Northern abolitionists was that the Compromise ushered in the Fugitive Slave Act. They were outraged that the new compromise included this law.
The term of the compromise 1850 was a group of five bills, passed September 1850, which defuse a four year confrontion between slave states of the south & free states of the north.
The term of the compromise 1850 was a group of five bills, passed September 1850, which defuse a four year confrontion between slave states of the south & free states of the north.
The compromise gave added clout to politicians in the south and increased resentment in the north. Both sides were upset by the compromise.