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Why did Southerners have a problem with the enforcement of the fugitive slave act?
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What is the fugitive slave law?
The fugitive slave law required all Americans to turn over any fugitive slave found to law enforcement so they would be sent back to their owners.
Why was the fugitive slave law a cause of the civil war?
It angered Southerners, and they seceded from the Union.
What was the law called that required northerners to help southerners catch their slaves?
The Fugitive Slave Act. It was part of the Compromise of 1850.
Why did the southerners feel the way they did about the Fugitive slave law?
The fugitive slave law gave southerners some protection against being bankrupted by thousands of escaping slaves. The law gave northern banks greater willingness to support slavery by loaning money to slave owners. The law also had the effect of co-opting the support of northern newspapers, which carried the very profitable ads for return of escaped slaves. Basically, the fugitive slave act gave national endorsement to the whole system of slavery.
What made it a federal crime to asist a runaway slave?
Fugitive Slave law (ACT)
Were the southerners mad when slavery was banned in California?
They would have been, if Congress had not appeased them with a couple more states where slavery would be permitted, plus enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the fugitive slave law?
The fugitive slave law required all Americans to turn over any fugitive slave found to law enforcement so they would be sent back to their owners.
Enforcement of the fugitive slave act led to?
more anger in the north
Why was the fugitive slave law a cause of the civil war?
It angered Southerners, and they seceded from the Union.
Why did southerners feels the federal government was not protecting their interests?
The federal government did not enforce the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
When did the fugitive slave act become enforced?
i means the enforcement of stupid people
Why did the southerners approve of the Compromise of 1850?
Because of the Fugitive Slave Act, where official slave-catchers were appointed to return runaways to their owners.
What was the reaction to president pierce's enforcement of the fugitive slave act?
it hardened the opposition to slavery
Why did the southerners feel the government was not protecting their interests?
The federal government did not enforce the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
Did the southerners favor or oppose the fugitive slave law?
In favor. They saw slaves as property and wanted their property back.
What was the law called that required northerners to help southerners catch their slaves?
The Fugitive Slave Act. It was part of the Compromise of 1850.
Why do you think southerners in congress insisted on the passage of a fugitive slave law?
They wanted to be able to catch their slaves because they were property.
