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The Fugitive Slave Act forced many people to consider the pros and cons of slavery in the United States. The effect of the Fugitive Slave Act was the freeing of slaves.

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What were the effects of the fugitive slave acts?

The Fugitive Slave Act forced many people to consider the pros and cons of slavery in the United States. The effect of the Fugitive Slave Act was the freeing of slaves.


What were the effects of the fugitives slave act?

The Fugitive Slave Act forced many people to consider the pros and cons of slavery in the United States. The effect of the Fugitive Slave Act was the freeing of slaves.


What laws punished northerners who assisted escaped slaves?

fugitive slave lawsThe Fugitive Act


What were the effects of the Fugitive Slave Act?

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required authorities in free states to help capture and return escaped slaves to their owners. This law angered abolitionists and led to increased tensions between North and South, contributing to the start of the Civil War. It also spurred more people to actively oppose slavery, strengthening the abolitionist movement.


What was the fugitive act?

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Was the fugitive slave act anti or pro slavery?

The Fugitive Slave Act was a pro-slavery part of the Compromise of 1850.


What was the event of the fugitive slave act?

no was you


Did the north become safe to slaves after the fugitive slave act?

no because the act declared that any fugitive slaves in the northhad to be returned


What act turned in slaves when they escaped?

Fugitive Slave Act


Was the fugitive slave act controversial?

It required citizens to assit in the recovery of fugitive slaves.


Which of these was part of the Compromise of 1850?

California was to be admitted as a free state.


How did Stowe's novel strengthen the abolitionist movement?

By dramatising the effects of the Fugitive Slave Act and drawing attention to the Underground Railroad (safe-houses for runaway slaves).