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the first fugitive slave law was passed in 1793.
The event you are referring to is the Compromise of 1850, where California was admitted as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law was enacted. This law required the return of escaped slaves to their owners, regardless of where they were caught in the United States.
The Compromise of 1850 was the plan in which California entered the US as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law was passed. This compromise aimed to address the issue of slavery expansion between free and slave states. The Fugitive Slave Law required that escaped slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in free states.
The first fugitive slave law was passed by Congress in 1793. It allowed slaveowners to reclaim their escaped slaves in any state or territory in the United States.
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850.
No, it didn't. The Fugitive Slave Law was passed before the publication of the novel.
California was to be admitted as a free state.
The the southern states had not yet seceded when the Fugitive Slave Laws were passed, and the Dred Scott Case was decided.
1850 Only John P. Hale, Charles Sumner, Salmon Chase and Benjamin Wade voted against the measure, Even the whig party leader Daniel Webster voted for it. This is why he never became President of United States.
California became a free state in 1850, ending the balance of free states and slave states. However, the slave states got a tougher fugitive slave law as a result of California's admission to the Union as a free state.
Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act.
Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act.