It was one of the components of the Compromise of 1850.
Most of the provisions favoured the Union, so Congress had to make a dramatic gesture of appeasement of the South. It was a clumsy move. The Act was so unpopular in the North that 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written directly as a protest against it.
The Fugitive Slave Act was a pro-slavery part of the Compromise of 1850.
California was to be admitted as a free state.
The Compromise of 1850, once in place, limited the number of slaves that could be freely roaming, and then the Fugitive Slave Act undid what had been established by the compromise by establishing stricter regulations.
James Buchanan
Congress would abolish the Fugitive Slave Law
The Fugitive Slave Law
The Fugitive Slave act was part of the Compromise of 1850. The compromise of 1850 said any new states would be free states as long as they passed the fugitive slave act. This act made Northerners turn in runaway slaves.
The Fugitive Slave Act was a pro-slavery part of the Compromise of 1850.
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850
California was to be admitted as a free state.
Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act.
Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act.
The Compromise of 1850, once in place, limited the number of slaves that could be freely roaming, and then the Fugitive Slave Act undid what had been established by the compromise by establishing stricter regulations.
The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the Compromise of 1850 and it was done to satisfy abolitionists who were in Congress. While slavery was outlawed in Washington, D.C. under this compromise, the Fugitive Slave Act allowed slaves to be returned to their masters and those who housed their escape to be punished.
The Fugitive Slave Act
Congress was given the power to ban the slave trade after 1808.