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Which of these was part of the Compromise of 1850?
California was to be admitted as a free state.
Was the fugitive slave act anti or pro slavery?
The Fugitive Slave Act was a pro-slavery part of the Compromise of 1850.
What does a fugitive slave mean?
It meant a slave ran away.
What was another name for a runaway slave?
Fugitive =)
Had the Fugitive Slave Act free all enslaved African Americans?
No the Fugitive Slave Act gave captured esaped slaves back to their owners.
What laws punished northerners who assisted escaped slaves?
fugitive slave lawsThe Fugitive Act
When year did harriet Tubman start freeing the slaves?
1851 after the fugitive slave laws were passed.
Was the fugitive slave law confederate?
The the southern states had not yet seceded when the Fugitive Slave Laws were passed, and the Dred Scott Case was decided.
When did the fugitive slave law start?
1850
What made it illegal to help runaway slaves?
The Fugitive Slave Laws
Was the north especially happy with the new fugitive slave laws?
(False)
According to the fugitive slave laws if a slave escaped to a free state he or she was automatically free?
According to the fugitive slave laws a slave was not automatically free if he/she escaped to a slave free state. If a slave was caught in a free state, the people were obligated to hold them for the slave chasers. Not many people obeyed this rule, though.
What included a more effective law requiring people in free states to return fugitive slaves?
Fugitive Slave Laws?
What laws stated slaves couldn't read or write?
Fugitive slave law
Laws punished northerners who assisted escaped slaves?
Fugitive Slave Act
Why did north resist the fugitive slave laws?
Because it compelled ordinary citizens to become unpaid slave-catchers.
How did personal liberty laws increase tension between the north and the south over the fugitive slave act?
Some northern states used personal liberty laws to nullify the figitive slave Act, written to help the south.
