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With anger.
They greatly resented being turned into unpaid slave-catchers, and this brought many new recruits to the cause of Abolitionism.
'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written as a protest against the Act.
It drove the two sides further apart, and was a major cause of the Civil War.
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EzraVery badly - it was the biggest cause of the failure of the Compromise of 1850.
Under this Act, members of the public had to report anyone who looked as though they might be a runaway slave, on pain of a heavy fine. Ordinary citizens strongly resented being treated as unpaid slave-catchers, and of course it stirred up the Abolitionists in particular. One of them was Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' out of fury at the new Act. This best-selling book encouraged the setting-up of the Underground Railroad - the system of safe-houses by which fugitive slaves could be smuggled into Canada.
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In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the south?
By passing the Fugitive Slave Act, which forced Northerners to report anyone who looked like a runaway slave. The Northern public greatly resented this.
Which provision of the Compromise of 1850 most upset or angered Northerners?
The Fugitive Slave Act. It turned ordinary citizens into unpaid slave-catchers, and provoked Harriet Beecher Stowe into writing 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
Why did some Americans believe Fugitive Slave Act?
The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the Compromise of 1850 and it was done to satisfy abolitionists who were in Congress. While slavery was outlawed in Washington, D.C. under this compromise, the Fugitive Slave Act allowed slaves to be returned to their masters and those who housed their escape to be punished.
Enforcemaent of the Fugitive Act led to what?
This led to the American Civil war from 1861-1865. This was because of slavery . The fugitive slave act allowed slave hunters to go to the North to get their slaves back.
What part of the Compromise of 1850 did Northerners hate?
The Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed official slave-catchers to hunt down runaways. This caused a highly emotive reaction in the North, and it made Harriet Beecher Stowe so angry that she wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
