Many northerners were a part of the underground railroad or even gave runaway slaves a place to live.
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.
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Because under the new Fugitive Slave Act, Northerners were under pressure to report anyone who looked like a runaway.
The south supported it because it required northerners to return any runaway slaves to their masters in the south.
Many northerners were a part of the underground railroad or even gave runaway slaves a place to live.
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.
harrit tubman
The Fugitive Slave Law.
The issue of slavery was important to northerners because that meant they could catch runaway laves and they could get a reward for it. it was also important for the southerners because that meant that the money they spent on them was a partial waste.
Its because in 1850 congress passed the Fugative Slave Act, which stated that all slave owners had the right to retrieve run away slaves.
Because under the new Fugitive Slave Act, Northerners were under pressure to report anyone who looked like a runaway.
Some states passed personal liberty laws for runaway slaves.
It required northerners to help recapture runaway slaves which was disliked either on moral grounds as it was for abolitionists but also in some reasons of fear of a Slave Power Conspiracy with the Southern Slaves States holding greater power over Congress than the North, many northerners in the mid 1800s believed many of the politicians in power were under the thumb of Southerners. This act in particular placed fines on people who would not cooperate and jail terms on people who helped fugitives escape. Also, southern slave catchers (aka federal marshals) roamed the North, sometimes capturing free African Americans with little regard for if they were free or fugitive slaves.
many northerners opposed the fugitive slave act because it forced regular citizens to help capture runaway slaves whether they wanted to or not. most white southerners supported it because they considered the slaves to be property. :Dp.s. i tried to find the answer to this question on this website then i actually looked in my text book and found it.! so i decided to share my answer with everyone! NO PROBLEM! :)
Some states passed personal liberty laws for runaway slaves.
The south supported it because it required northerners to return any runaway slaves to their masters in the south.