The enactment of the new fugitive slave law
the compromise of 1850
Abolitionists were most upset by the Fugitive Slave Act, a key provision of the Compromise of 1850, which mandated that escaped slaves be returned to their owners even if they were found in free states. This law not only intensified the moral outrage against slavery but also required ordinary citizens to assist in the capture of fugitives, effectively implicating them in the institution of slavery. Additionally, the expansion of slavery into new territories, allowed under the compromise, further fueled abolitionist anger and activism.
The Fugitive Slave Act. It aroused enthusiasm for the Underground Railroad, the safe-house system by which runaways could be smuggled into Canada.
The Fugitive Slave Act. It turned ordinary citizens into unpaid slave-catchers, and provoked Harriet Beecher Stowe into writing 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
Henry Clay proposed a series of compromises, most notably the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850, to address the contentious issue of slavery and prevent civil war. The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state while Maine entered as a free state, maintaining a balance in Congress. The Compromise of 1850 included measures such as the admission of California as a free state and the implementation of a stricter Fugitive Slave Law, aiming to appease both pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions. These compromises sought to maintain peace between the North and South but ultimately only provided temporary solutions to the deepening divide over slavery.
fugitive slave act, which said that all US citizens must help with the capturing of runaway slaves.
the compromise of 1850
the most controversial part of the 1850 compromise was California becoming a free state.
it stop slavery in most of the states
The Fugitive Slave Act
It settled most differences over slavery.
its mostly because of the fugitive slave act.
The Fugitive Slave Law
Northerners were most pleased that California was admitted as a free state. The south was pleased that the fugitive slave act REQUIRED assistance in capturing runaway slaves or face imprisonment.
Henry Clay was the man who drafted a series of proposals that became known as the Compromise of 1850. The proposals reconciled competing northern and southern concerns over the expansion of slavery into Missouri and the western territories conquered from Mexico.
Fillmore supported the Compromise of 1850 and like any compromise, it did not satisfy anybody, but it was most hated by strong anti-slavery people in the North.
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