The Fugitive Slave Act. It forced members of the public to report anyone who looked as though they might be a runaway, on pain of heavy fines - turning them into unpaid slave-catchers, in other words.
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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.
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'.
The great compromise was made up of bicameral.
this people are stupid they need to answer every question people asked.
he made it The Compromise of 1850
They made the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
For those who supported slavery, the Compromise of 1850 offered the Fugitive Slave Act. The act made it so slave owners were allowed to capture slaves who had escaped and bring them back.
1850 Comprimise
Henry Clay. He had help from Stephen Douglas
The Fugitive Slave act was part of the Compromise of 1850. The compromise of 1850 said any new states would be free states as long as they passed the fugitive slave act. This act made Northerners turn in runaway slaves.
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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.
I think that it was abolished in oklahoma!
It was a speech that he gave about how he felt that people should vote yes to the Compromise of 1850 because even though it promoted slavery in the new territories, slavery wouldn't be able to be upheld there due to the environment that is not suitable for plantation farming. (He was abolitionist)
Stephen Douglas, a Democrat from Illinois, helped push the bills for the Compromise of 1850 through congress
The Compromise of 1850 undid much of the work of the Missouri Compromise made a few years prior. Unfortunately, the Compromise of 1850 did not alleviate the tensions of the slave debate, and the Civil War broke out just ten years later.