The concession the North had to make on behalf of the South was to allow the employment of official slave-catchers to hunt down runaways and return them to their owners, and all citizens were obliged to co-operate with these slave-catchers.
In fact, this backfired badly. It angered the abolitionists, provoked Harriet Beecher Stowe into writing 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', and glorified the Underground Railroad, awakening anti-slavery feelings in large numbers who had not been especially interested in the debate till then.
So it did not benefit the South, as intended. As far as the forthcoming war was concerned, it worked in favour of the North. Some might say that without it, the war could have been averted.
The stipulation that slavery would be permitted in New Mexico and Utah (in exchange for California being admited to the Union as free soil).
In order to pass the Missouri Compromise of 1850, the South demanded a bit more than was expected. In order to pass the compromise, the Fugitive Slave Act was part of the compromise. This in a defacto manner nationalized slavery.
There was a strengthened fugitive slave law to help with the capture of escaped slaves.
There was a strengthened fugitive slave law to help with the capture of escaped slaves.
fugitive slave act, which said that all US citizens must help with the capturing of runaway slaves.
It got California admitted as free soil, on condition that two other states could be admitted as slave-states.
The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act made slavery a national issue. By that, it meant that while many in the North disapproved of slavery, it was a "Southern" issue, in a manner of speaking. The new slave law was designed to return slaves who had escaped to the North and sought their freedom. The new act, a part of the 1850 Missouri Compromise, now, by law, held Northern officials and even ordinary citizens part of the slavery issue. People giving aid and support to refugee slaves were under Federal obligation to help in their return. This angered many in the North, however, they only could blame their own elected representatives in Washington DC for the problem. As an aside, president-elect Lincoln, promised to enforce the law. Nothing, however, seemed to satisfy a good number of Southerners. Abolitionists in 1850 were astonished.
The Compromise of 1850 included five separate bills that passed Congress to defuse tension between the slaves states of the South and the free states of the North. Henry Clay devised the Compromise and passed it with the help of Stephen Douglas.
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Henry Clay. He had help from Stephen Douglas
Stephen Douglas, a Democrat from Illinois, helped push the bills for the Compromise of 1850 through congress
The law was called the Fugitive Slave Act, enacted in 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850. It mandated that all escaped slaves, regardless of their location, be captured and returned to their owners, compelling Northerners to assist in this process.
There was a strengthened fugitive slave law to help with the capture of escaped slaves
There was a strengthened fugitive slave law to help with the capture of escaped slaves.
There was a strengthened fugitive slave law to help with the capture of escaped slaves.
There was a strengthened fugitive slave law to help with the capture of escaped slaves.
fugitive slave act, which said that all US citizens must help with the capturing of runaway slaves.
The Fugitive Slave Act introduced as a part of the Compromise of 1850 placed new rules on the citizens that obligated everyone to help the slave catchers. Protests to slavery increased and the Abolitionists increased in numbers and in influence.
In offering a compromise, each person gets a little of what he or she wanted so there is some satisfaction with the result etc