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fugitive slave laws
The Fugitive Act
Pinkie Davis
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Laws punished northerners who assisted escaped slaves?
Fugitive Slave Act
Which the law punished northerners who assisted escaped slaves?
Fugitive Slave Law
Why did fugitive slave act anger northerners?
It angered Northerners, because they were forced to return slaves that had escaped back to their owners in the South.
Why did the fugitive slave act anger northerners?
It angered Northerners, because they were forced to return slaves that had escaped back to their owners in the South.
Why did they make the fugitive slave law?
because it is a law that that required northerners to return escaped slaves to their owners.
What did the northerners dislike about fugitive slave law of 1850?
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.
Who established a secret route that escaped the slaves?
She was not the only one who assisted in creating the Underground Railroad, however Harriet Tubman is most renowned for her advent of a secret route between various "safe houses" that courriered escaped slaves from the Southern United States to the North.
Why did the northerners hate the fugitive slave law?
Now, they were forced to help capture escaped slaves even though they opposed slavery. If not, they were fined $1,000 and were sent to jail for 6 months.
How did the fugitive slave act cause more division between north and south?
The law made it a federal crime to aid runaway slaves and allowed the arrest of escaped slaves. Many northerners openly broke the law, angering slaveholders.
Which northern cities were destination for escaped slaves?
Slaves escaped to Detroit, Erie, and Boston.
When did northerners want slave trade abolished?
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.
Why did the fugitive slave act anger northeners?
Opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act, which would have allowed southerners to pursue escaped slaves and to return them to the south, was high. It imposed harsh penalties on those who impeded these efforts to capture ex-slaves. It also enabled free black people to be sold into slavery. There were no legal protections for those picked up or stalked by bounty hunters, either on a state or federal level. The Underground Railroad took many people to Canada for this reason.
