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Which of these was part of the Compromise of 1850?
California was to be admitted as a free state.
What does a fugitive slave mean?
It meant a slave ran away.
Was the fugitive slave act anti or pro slavery?
The Fugitive Slave Act was a pro-slavery part of the Compromise of 1850.
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.
When did the fugitive slave law start?
1850
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.
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 laws stated slaves couldn't read or write?
Fugitive slave law
Laws punished northerners who assisted escaped slaves?
Fugitive Slave Act
What included a more effective law requiring people in free states to return fugitive slaves?
Fugitive Slave Laws?
Why did north resist the fugitive slave laws?
Because it compelled ordinary citizens to become unpaid slave-catchers.
What did northern states do to counter the fugitive slave law?
Northern states passed Personal Liberty laws to counteract the Fugitive Slave Law. These were meant to make the law equitable and to protect the rights of Freedmen and escaped slaves without nullifying the Fugitive Slave Law.
