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What laws punished northerners who assisted escaped slaves?
fugitive slave lawsThe Fugitive Act
What were the effects of the fugitive 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 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.
Under the fugitive slave act what would happen to a citizen who helped a runaway slave?
A citizen who helped a runaway slave under the Fugitive Slave Act could be fined or imprisoned for aiding a fugitive slave. The act required citizens to assist in capturing and returning escaped slaves to their owners.
Which group of people supported the Fugitive Slave Act?
abolitionists
Who supported the fugitive slave act?
The Fugitive Slave Act was supported by Southern slaveholders and their political allies in the United States government. They saw the law as a way to uphold the Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution and protect their property rights in enslaved people.
Which of these was part of the Compromise of 1850?
California was to be admitted as a free state.
What were two ways that people resisted the fugitive slave act?
People helped hide fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad and wouldn't turn them over to slave catchers.
Was the fugitive slave act anti or pro slavery?
The Fugitive Slave Act was a pro-slavery part of the Compromise of 1850.
When did the fugitive slave act become enforced?
i means the enforcement of stupid people
What part was the most controversial of the compromise of 1850?
The Fugitive Slave Law
