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Was the fugitive slave age a necessary law or act prior to the Civil War?
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∙ 13y ago
It was an unfortunate gesture of appeasement to the South, to compensate for the admission of California as free soil.
It was meant to sound like the firm smack of Law and Order, with citizens at risk of prosecution just for failing to report anyone who they thought looked like a runaway slave.
This provoked a strong reaction in the North, where the abolitionists set up the Underground Railroad to smuggle fugitives into Canada. Harriet Beecher Stowe turned this into a best-selling novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', which recruited many more abolitionists. And the whole slave debate heated up steadily.
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How did the fugitive slave act lead to the civil war?
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What are the effects of the Fugitive Slave law?
The fugitive slave law stated that all slaves who escaped to the north could be recaptured and brought back to their owners in the south. The people in the north were very unhappy about this. The fugitive slave law was one of the main causes of the Civil War.
Why was the fugitive slave law a cause of the civil war?
It angered Southerners, and they seceded from the Union.
What laws punished northerners who assisted escaped slaves?
fugitive slave lawsThe Fugitive Act
Enforcemaent of the Fugitive Act led to what?
This led to the American Civil war from 1861-1865. This was because of slavery . The fugitive slave act allowed slave hunters to go to the North to get their slaves back.
Who signed the fugitive slave act the helped worsen the tensions that led to the civil war?
That would be Millard Fillmore.
When did the fugitive slave act take place?
It took place in 1850 which was one of the causes of the civil war.
What made it a federal crime to asist a runaway slave?
Fugitive Slave law (ACT)
When was fugitive slave law passed?
the first fugitive slave law was passed in 1793.
Which of these was part of the Compromise of 1850?
California was to be admitted as a free state.
What issues and events shattered the nation's unity and led to civil war?
Fugitive slave act in 1850 along with government control toward slave states and slave free states.
What part was the most controversial of the compromise of 1850?
The Fugitive Slave Law
