Why did the fugitive slave act anger northeners?

Answer 1

Opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act, which would have allowed southerners to pursue escaped slaves and to return them to the south, was high. It imposed harsh penalties on those who impeded these efforts to capture ex-slaves. It also enabled free black people to be sold into slavery. There were no legal protections for those picked up or stalked by bounty hunters, either on a state or federal level. The Underground Railroad took many people to Canada for this reason.

Answer 2

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the 1850 Missouri Compromise. Even after the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullified the 1850 compromise the Fugitive Slave Act remained in tact. As an aside, even President elect Abraham Lincoln promised to enforce it. Northern states resented the act because it basically made slavery a national issue. Citizens in the US, its judges and political office holders, and law enforcement were expected to return escaped slaves that sought shelter in the North. At the time, it nullified state laws that allowed Northerners of all types to not help in the return of escaped slaves.The law awarded money to people who helped return escaped slaves and punished people who knowingly aid escaped slaves. This was divisive and added to the North-South sectionalism problem.

Answer 3

Many people in the North who were against slavery were fiercely against the Fugitive Slave Act, which was part of the 1850 Missouri Compromise. One main reason was that the law made it a crime not to capture and return escaped slaves back to the South.

Answer 4

The Fugitive slave act dis provoke such a strong opposition in the north because it was more oppressive compared to the existing laws.

Answer 5

The Northerners felt it gave commissioners too much power and was unfair to slaves by giving them a trail without a jury.

Answer 6

because the north did not wabt to support slavery, so they did not want to send escape slaves back to the south

Answer 7

it angered Northerners because they were forced to return slaves that had escaped back to their owners in the South

Answer 8

Since the fugitive slave law enforced the capture of slaves, and the northerners were against slavery, the northerners disliked it