What was the Fugative Slave Act of 1850?

Answer 1

Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slaveholding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.

Answer 2

This deal was offered to the South, in exchange for California being admitted to the Union as free soil.

Congress agreed to hunt down runaway slaves and return them to their owners. This aroused an emotive reaction in the North, where the runaways were viewed as persecuted victims and the slave-catchers as brutal oppressors.

Answer 3

In the US in 1850 the Fugitive Slave Act was passed by Congress. It called for the arrest of any escaped slaves found in the North and offered bounties and cash bonuses for judges and others involved for the return of slaves. Thus, any person arrested as a runaway slave had no rights and were sent back to their owners. Abolitionists were greatly distressed about the law.

Answer 4

Northern people had to catch the slaves running north from the south

Answer 5

Well the judge would get payed $10.00 for sending a free slave into slavery and $5.00 to return a slave so, the money would influence a judge to send even free slaves into slavery.

Answer 6

It was signed into law by President Millard Filmore.