The Fugitive Slave Act
the compromise of 1850
the most controversial part of the 1850 compromise was California becoming a free state.
it stop slavery in most of the states
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
Northerners were most pleased that California was admitted as a free state. The south was pleased that the fugitive slave act REQUIRED assistance in capturing runaway slaves or face imprisonment.
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.
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.
The Compromise of 1850 which was drafted by Whig Henry Clay and Democrat Stephen Douglas was used to defuse tentions between the southern slave states and the northern free states in regards to territory acquired by the U.S. during the Mexican-American War between 1846-1848.
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.