The enactment of the new fugitive slave law
the compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act. It aroused enthusiasm for the Underground Railroad, the safe-house system by which runaways could be smuggled into Canada.
The Fugitive Slave Act. It turned ordinary citizens into unpaid slave-catchers, and provoked Harriet Beecher Stowe into writing 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
The Fugitive Slave Act. It compelled members of the public to report anyone who looked as though they might be a fugitive slave, on pain of heavy fines. Most Northerners thought this was quite excessive. It also generated a new sympathy for runaways, and Abolitionists organised the Underground Railroad - a system of safe-houses, by which slaves could be smuggled into Canada. This ensured that the Compromise of 1850 could not hold, and the slavery debate would heat-up dangerously through the 50's, ending in war.
The Connecticut Compromise -Apex
fugitive slave act, which said that all US citizens must help with the capturing of runaway slaves.
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 Fugitive Slave Act
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.
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