The Compromise of 1850

AP US History· difficulty 4/5

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

A
$Required Northerners to assist in capturing escaped enslaved people, infuriating abolitionists$
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B
$Banned slavery throughout the federal territories acquired from Mexico in the recent war$
C
$Granted automatic freedom to fugitive slaves who reached free Northern soil$
D
$Was rarely enforced and quietly ignored by federal marshals in the North$

Explanation

Northern resistance increased; the law radicalized many Northerners against slavery.

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