The Fugitive Slave Law angered the Northerners a lot.
Millard Fillmore supported this compromise and signed it into law. It did little to settle the slavery issues it was designed to settle.
Fillmore supported the Compromise of 1850 and like any compromise, it did not satisfy anybody, but it was most hated by strong anti-slavery people in the North.
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Fillmore was a Whig. He was the last of four Whig presidents.
They were Taylor and Fillmore. Taylor opposed it but then died and Fillmore reversed Taylor's position.
Millard Fillmore was the last U.S. President of the Whig Party.
Millard Fillmore accomplishments include the Compromise of 1850 and the admission of California and New Mexico as free states. Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States from 1850 until 1853.
Fillmore angered the abolitionists and other anti-slavery groups in the North, by the Fugitive Slave Act, which was part of the Compromise of 1850. This compromise was engineered by Henry Clay. It was opposed by Fillmore's predecessor, Taylor.
He was the last president who was neither; he was a Whig.
Fillmore supported the Compromise of 1850 which was Henry Clay's attempt to resolve the crisis over slavery and prevent a civil war.
The Whig party.
The Whig party.