starting with effect-
.Pre-school children were being lured onto slave ships and taken away.
.This made the north ANGRY!!!!!!
.This was one of the causes to the Civil War
Causes-
.Congress made this law to comprimise with the south.
.The north had been getting "favored" by the government by respecting more of their wishes
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it was apart of the compromise of 1940
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It had the opposite effect from what was intended.
It was meant to be an act of appeasement to the South, because the rest of the Compromise of 1850 mostly favoured the North.
It said, in effect "We can't offer you much hope of new slave-states. But my goodness, we'll crack down on those runaways."
It turned ordinary citizens into unpaid slave-catchers, and they strongly resented this. Harriet Beecher wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' as a protest against it.
This book aroused great support for the 'Underground Railroad' - the safe-house system that smuggled fugitive slaves into Canada.
All of this brought civil war nearer.
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.
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.
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.
== == The Fugitive Slave Law required Northern citizens to help catch escaped slaves. But many Northerners hated the law as much as they hated slavery. They ignored it from the time it was passed by Congress. In this way, the Fugitive Slave Law increased the tension between Northerners and Southerners.
By passing the Fugitive Slave Act, which forced Northerners to report anyone who looked like a runaway slave. The Northern public greatly resented this.