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It protected the Southern slave owners' property rights. Often once a slave ran to a Northern state the slave would begin a new life in the north.... and Slave owners would find it very hard to go to the north and get their former slaves and bring them back home, even if they knew where they were. This new federal law stated that the local Northern laws must help assist the slave owner in capturing a known runaway.
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∙ 12y agoThe Fugitive Slave Act provided for the capture of a runaway slave and the return to his/her owner. The North, which took an increasingly strong stance of abolitionism toward the 1860s, did not approve of this act because it strengthened the practice of slavery.
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∙ 12y agoMany northerners were a part of the underground railroad or even gave runaway slaves a place to live.
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How was the Compromise of 1850 similar to the fugitive slave act?
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.
How did the Northerners react to the Fugitive Slave Act?
With extreme indignation at being treated like unpaid slave-catchers. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written as a protest against it.
What law did the Southerners demanded that Congress pass that said Northerners had to return runaway slaves to their owners?
== == That was The Fugitive Slave Act.
What part of the compromise of 1850 was most unpopular int the North?
The Fugitive Slave Law. This caused Harriet Beecher Stowe to write 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', which drew slavery to the attention of large numbers who had not taken much interest in it before.
What part was the most controversial of the compromise of 1850?
The Fugitive Slave Law
What laws punished northerners who assisted escaped slaves?
fugitive slave lawsThe Fugitive Act
What unintended effect did the fugitive slave act have on northerners?
northerners refused to listen to the law
Laws punished northerners who assisted escaped slaves?
Fugitive Slave Act
What act required northerners to capture runaway slaves?
The Fugitive Slave Law.
Which the law punished northerners who assisted escaped slaves?
Fugitive Slave Law
Why did the second federal fugitive slave law of 1850 make northerners mad?
The reason the second federal fugitive slave law made northerners upset was because most northerners thought that slavery was immoral and that they would have to help capture the slaves or be finned is impeachment of there rights.
How did the the fugitive slave act of 1850 anger northerners?
They didn't like being turned into unpaid slave-catchers.
Why did fugitive slave act anger northerners?
It angered Northerners, because they were forced to return slaves that had escaped back to their owners in the South.
Why did the fugitive slave act anger northerners?
It angered Northerners, because they were forced to return slaves that had escaped back to their owners in the South.
What two parts of the Compromise of 1850 appealed most to Northerners?
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.
What did the northerners dislike about fugitive slave law of 1850?
Northerners, especially abolitionists, disliked the 'Bloodhound Law' as it required escaped slaves to be returned to their masters even if they were found in a free state. Northerners worried that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of a vast conspiracy of the southern plantation elite.
Why did they make the fugitive slave law?
because it is a law that that required northerners to return escaped slaves to their owners.
