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The Fugitive Slave Law.

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Why did northerners not like the fugitive slave act?

Because it forced regular citizens to help capture runaway slaves, whether they wanted to or even agreed with slavery or not.


What part of the Compromise of 1850 pleased Northerners the most and which part pleased the southerners?

Northerners were most pleased that California was admitted as a free state. The south was pleased that the fugitive slave act REQUIRED assistance in capturing runaway slaves or face imprisonment.


What action by congress required Americans to return to runaway slaves to their owners?

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required Americans to return runaway slaves to their owners.


Why did Northerners oppose the Fugitive Slave Act?

Northerners opposed the Fugitive Slacve law because they were against slavery, so they didn't want to help capture runaway slaves because they thought that if they had got away, then leave them alone. Besides it would make slavery worse in a way.


Fugitive Slave Act?

A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states. The law was highly unpopular in the North and helped to convert many previously indifferent northerners to antislavery.


What two parts of the Compromise of 1850 appealed most to Northerners?

Northerners were most pleased that California was admitted as a free state. The south was pleased that the fugitive slave act REQUIRED assistance in capturing runaway slaves or face imprisonment.


What year did the us outlaw any efforts to impede the capture of runaway slaves?

1793


The Missouri compromise required northerners to help capture escape slaves and return them to slaveholder in the south?

False . The plan kept the balance of power between the North and the South even in the Senate.


What describes the position of the most northerners towards slavery?

Some states passed personal liberty laws for runaway slaves.


What law was passed to help Southern states capture runaway slaves?

Fugitive slave law


What law did the Southerners demanded that Congress pass that said Northerners had to return runaway slaves to their owners?

== == That was The Fugitive Slave Act.


What statement best describes the position of most Northerners toward slavery?

Some states passed personal liberty laws for runaway slaves.