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What was the main provision of the Fugitive Slave Law?
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.
Which of these resolutions was included in the Compromise of 1850 to satisfy the South?
By passing the Fugitive Slave Act, which forced Northerners to report anyone who looked like a runaway slave. The Northern public greatly resented this.
What part of the Compromise of 1850 was most unpopular in the North?
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.
How did the fugitive slave act affect free and enslaved African Americans?
The Fugitive Slave Act gave states the authority to issue a warrant of removal for any black person they thought was an escaped slave. It made it a crime to help a runaway slave. In addition, slave hunters made a good side living abducting free black people, accusing them of being slaves and taking them south to be sold into slavery.
What were the new laws given to southern states by the Compromise of 1850?
The only new law was the Fugitive Slave Act. It was not 'given to the Southern states'. It was enforced in every state of the Union. But it was a gesture of appeasement to the Southern states, in order to keep them onside at a time when it was getting harder to create new slave-states.
