What was the problematic aspect of the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 1

Texas would relinquish the land it was arguing with Mexico over but would receive ten million dollars in compensation (which it would use to pay off its debts to Mexico); the slave trade would be abolished in Washington, D.C., though slavery itself was still permitted; California was admitted as a free state; and the Fugitive Slave Act, which punished people harboring fugitive slaves and allowed for the return of those slaves to their masters was passed.

Answer 2

The most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 was the Fugitive Slave Act. This act required federal marshals to not only help slave catchers apprehend escaped slaves, but gave them a right to deputize and force ordinary citizens to do it as well. African Americans did not have the right to testify in their own defense while on trial. Any African-American, whether free or not, could be sent South to be sold into slavery based only on an affidavit signed by whites testifying they had escaped slavery. More than any other act, this rallied Northerners to support the abolition of slavery.

Answer 3

The Comprimise of 1850 was when The North and South both had 30 senators. Then California was ready to become a state and the # of senators would become uneven and unfair.

The Comprimise of 1850 added California to North. The South got stronger slave fugitive laws, which they believed was unfair because they should have been strong in the first place. Texas then gave some of its land up to the south, and in return the government would pay its taxes.

Answer 4

Keeping the South onside, when it was clear that slavery would not be allowed in most of the new territories acquired from Mexico, and the slave states were looking rich enough to secede from the USA.

A big gesture of appeasement seemed to be called for, and the Fugitive Slave Act was a dramatic statement of support for the legality of slavery in its existing homelands. Every American citizen was now obliged to report anyone who looked as though he might be a runaway slave, on pain of a $1000 fine. Northerners were highly indignant at being treated like unpaid slave-catchers, and 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written as a protest against the Act.

Answer 5

The Fugitive Slave Act - a crackdown on runaways, to compensate the South for the admission of California as free soil. It turned the ordinary citizen into an unpaid slave-catcher, and 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written as a protest against it.

Answer 6

There were 5 provisions of the Compromise of 1850. They are: selling and buying of trades abolished in Columbia, Fugitive Slave Act passed, claim of Texas as portion of New Mexico satisfied, Mexican cession divided into Utah and New Mexico and California was admitted as a free state into the Union.

Answer 7

The new toughened-up Fugitive Slave Act, forcing ordinary citizens to report anyone who looked like a runaway, on pain of a heavy fine.

Answer 8

fugitive slave act

Answer 9

The strengthened Fugitive Slave Law