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Nothing much, except the Fugitive Slave Act.

This was like a big gesture of appeasement, because the rest of the Compromise seemed to be very favourable to the North.

That was why Congress went overboard in making a macho law with heavy fines for the slightest breach of the Act. This turned ordinary Northern citizens into unpaid slave-catchers, and they strongly resented this, even when they were not Abolitionists.

The novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written as a protest against the Act, and it was an instant best-seller that drove the two sections further apart, and undoubtedly brought the nation closer to civil war.

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Two possible new slave-states and the Fugitive Slave Act, with official slave-catchers employed to hunt down runaways.

That Act did not actually help them at all, because it caused such an emotive reaction in the North that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' as a response to it. This brought a lot of new converts to the Abolitionist cause, and helped the Underground Railroad, the unofficial safe-house system, by which slaves were smuggled into Canada.

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Texas's debts were paid off by the government. A new fugitive slave law is established.

Also the Fugitive Slave Act is established.

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