In 1840, the state of New Hampshire passed a law that limited the workday for enslaved individuals to 10 hours. This was one of the earliest legislative efforts in the United States to regulate the working conditions of enslaved people.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, Illinois and Maryland were among the first states to do so. The movement started in Britain during the Industrial Revolution.
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.
Kentucky, Senator Crittenden's home state, would have remained a slave state.
It allowed the territory of Missouri to join the USA as a slave-state.
The legislature became directly involved in slave emancipation due to increasing pressure from abolitionist movements, changing public attitudes towards slavery, and moral considerations regarding human rights. Legislatures ultimately passed laws and acts to abolish slavery in response to these societal shifts.
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.
They did not pass the legislation for a 10 hour workday.
The statement 'Despite the workers efforts, the Massachusetts state legislature did not pass legislation for a 10-hour workday' is true.
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Mississippi was a slave state until the end of the Civil War.