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It was an untidy bundle of laws, most of them favouring the North.
So Congress had to make a big dramatic gesture of appeasement to the South, in order to get it through. This was the Fugitive Slave Act, which was deliberately meant to sound extreme - every citizen to be treated like an unpaid slave-catcher, with heavy fines for just failing to report anyone who looked as though they might be a runaway slave.
The South liked the sound of it. The North was deeply offended by it, and Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' as a protest against it.
This runaway best-seller raised the temperature of the debate, and deepened the split between the two sections bringing war closer.
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In 1850 southerners were most upset by?
the compromise of 1850
Who created the compromise of 1850?
The Compromise of 1850 included five separate bills that passed Congress to defuse tension between the slaves states of the South and the free states of the North. Henry Clay devised the Compromise and passed it with the help of Stephen Douglas.
Who put together the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
What was the aim of the compromise of 1850?
To prevent secession of the South.
