The Fugitive Slave Law. This caused Harriet Beecher Stowe to write 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', which drew slavery to the attention of large numbers who had not taken much interest in it before.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was a part of the Compromise of 1850. It mandated that all escaped slaves were to be returned to their masters. This act enraged the northerners.
Strengthenign the Fugitive Slave Act.
it stop slavery in most of the states
The Fugitive Slave Law
Henry Clay was the man who drafted a series of proposals that became known as the Compromise of 1850. The proposals reconciled competing northern and southern concerns over the expansion of slavery into Missouri and the western territories conquered from Mexico.
fugitive slave act, which said that all US citizens must help with the capturing of runaway slaves.
After the Missouri Compromise of 1820, it was more-or-less balanced - anywhere North of that parallel would be free soil, and anywhere South was open to slavery. After the Compromise of 1850, it became more difficult to create new slave-states, and Congress had to try to appease the South. This did not work in the end, and war was inevitable.
It was one of the components of the Compromise of 1850. Most of the provisions favoured the Union, so Congress had to make a dramatic gesture of appeasement of the South. It was a clumsy move. The Act was so unpopular in the North that 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written directly as a protest against it.
The Fugitive Slave Law. This caused Harriet Beecher Stowe to write 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', which drew slavery to the attention of large numbers who had not taken much interest in it before.
the compromise of 1850
the most controversial part of the 1850 compromise was California becoming a free state.
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.
it stop slavery in most of the states
The Fugitive Slave Act
The enactment of the new fugitive slave law
It settled most differences over slavery.
its mostly because of the fugitive slave act.
The Fugitive Slave Law
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.