It offended many law-abiding Northern citizens who objected to being turned into unpaid slave-catchers, and threatened with $1000 fine if they failed to report anyone who looked like a runaway slave.
Meanwhile it pleased the South, by appearing to confirm the legitimacy of slavery.
Thus it drove the two sides further apart.
for the slaves liberty laws were denied even more so now crossing the north border doesnt set you free you can only be freed now by escaping to Canada
novanet- some northern states used personal liberty laws to nullify the fugitive slave act,written to help the south
The fugitive slave law was proposed in the Compromise of 1850 by Henry Clay. He was pro-south and this angered the North because more runaways were caught and brought back to slavery. There for making them even more angry at each other.
It angered northerners because slave owners from the south would take back slaves that they "owned" but would also take free blacks with them who were never enslaved.
The Fugitive Slave Law was part of the Compromise of 1850. Its main provision required the return of runaway slaves. Their were penalties for those in northern states who aided escaped slaves.
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.
Because it included the Fugitive Slave Act, which forced ordinary citizens to report anyone who looked as though they might be a runaway slave. This was meant to provide moral support for slave-owners, in exchange for allowing California to enter the Union as free soil.
By passing the Fugitive Slave Act, which forced Northerners to report anyone who looked like a runaway slave. The Northern public greatly resented this.
The Fugitive Slave Act, which compelled all citizens to report anyone who looked as though they might be a runaway slave, on pain of a heavy fine. This was meant to sound like a decisive gesture in support of property rights, but it infuriated the Abolitionists, and raised the temperature of the whole debate.
It took place in 1850 which was one of the causes of the civil war.
The Fugitive Slave Law
The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the Compromise of 1850, which was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850.
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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.
Fugitive slave act in 1850 along with government control toward slave states and slave free states.
The Fugitive Slave Act was a pro-slavery part of the Compromise of 1850.
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850.
The Fugitive Slave Law was included in the Compromise of 1850, a package of five bills passed by the United States Congress.
this happened on durimg the kansas-Nebraska Act in 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850. This federal law required the return of escaped slaves to their owners, even if they were in a free state.