Why weren't Abolitionists important in the North until the late 1850s?

Anonymous

∙ 17y ago

Updated: 8/16/2019

The Fugitive Slave Act introduced as a part of the Compromise of 1850 placed new rules on the citizens that obligated everyone to help the slave catchers. Protests to slavery increased and the Abolitionists increased in numbers and in influence.

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∙ 17y ago

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What statement is true about the issue of immigration in the 1840s and 1850s?

It was more important in the North than the South. (Apex)

How widespread was the cultivation of hemp in North American by the 1850s?

By the 1850s, hemp had become the third largest agricultural crop grown in North America.

The Wilmot Proviso was most likely to be supported by who?

Northern abolitionists.

What divided the North and the South in the 1850s?

# North # South # West

How did Abolitionists in the North help the slaves?

North of where? Please expand your question.

Which best describes the cultures in the Northern and Southern states by the 1850s?

By the 1850s, the south and north were becoming more alike.

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abolitionists were mostly from the northern states because in the south slaves were used to work but in the north they had free labor.

Did the dred Scott decision angered the north?

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north

Which man was not involve in the mid-1850s as a result of tensions between the north and south?

Why did the North consisder John Brown a martyr?

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Did California favor the Wilmot Proviso?

Generally the North.

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