The risk of heavy fines or jail for not reporting runaways.
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The Fugitive Slave Law.
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.
Around the early 1800's the Northerners realized how bad slaves really were to keep. A lot of northerners still though it was fine to have slaves.
many northerners opposed the fugitive slave act because it forced regular citizens to help capture runaway slaves whether they wanted to or not. most white southerners supported it because they considered the slaves to be property. :Dp.s. i tried to find the answer to this question on this website then i actually looked in my text book and found it.! so i decided to share my answer with everyone! NO PROBLEM! :)
Harriet Tubman
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Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Law.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 allowed slave owners to pursue escaped slaves into free states, where Northerners who aided the slaves could be fined or imprisoned. This law was part of a series of legislation that aimed to maintain the institution of slavery in the United States.
It angered Northerners, because they were forced to return slaves that had escaped back to their owners in the South.
The Fugitive Slave Act angered northerners because it required them to assist in the capture and return of escaped slaves, going against their beliefs in abolitionism and freedom. It also denied alleged fugitive slaves the right to a fair trial by jury, leading to fears of unjust apprehension and enslavement.
because it is a law that that required northerners to return escaped slaves to their owners.
The Second Federal Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, part of the Compromise of 1850, angered Northerners because it required citizens to assist in capturing and returning escaped slaves, denying them a jury trial. This law heightened tensions over the issue of slavery in the United States and was seen as a concession to the South at the expense of individual liberties in the North.
I have no idea at all They smuggled slaves out of the country on the Underground Railroad.
Northerners, especially abolitionists, disliked the 'Bloodhound Law' as it required escaped slaves to be returned to their masters even if they were found in a free state. Northerners worried that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of a vast conspiracy of the southern plantation elite.
Some ways that northerners defied the Fugitive Slave Act included refusing to comply with the law, organizing protests and demonstrations, aiding escaped slaves in their journey to freedom through the Underground Railroad, and challenging the constitutionality of the law in court.