MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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Slave Return Law
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Fugitive Slave Act
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California Act
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Slave State Law
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Detailed explanation-1: -Passed on September 18, 1850 by Congress, The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Georgia Platform established Georgia’s conditional acceptance of the Compromise of 1850. Much of the document followed a draft written by Charles Jones Jenkins, who later served as Georgia’s governor from 1865 to 1868.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Georgia Platform was a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 10, 1850, in response to the Compromise of 1850.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Compromise of 1850 was a series of measures proposed by U.S. Senator Henry Clay and passed by the U.S. Congress to settle several issues connected to slavery and avert the threat of dissolution of the Union.