MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE WILMOT PROVISO
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Question
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Threaten to harm slave catchers.
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Underground Railroad
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Jury influence
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Nothing
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Detailed explanation-1: -Some abolitionists organized clandestine resistance groups and built complex networks of safe houses to aid enslaved people in their escape to the North. Refusing to be complicit in the institution of slavery, most Northern states intentionally neglected to enforce the law.
Detailed explanation-2: -What were two ways that people resisted the Fugitive Slave Act? The Underground Railroad and there was a broken system between the judges with the trials. What led to the end of the Whig party?
Detailed explanation-3: -The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.
Detailed explanation-4: -Designed to calm sectional tensions as part of the Compromise of 1850, the law propelled the nation closer to war. Both the fugitive slave clause of the Constitution and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 affirmed the rights of slaveholders to claim enslaved people who escaped into free states or territories.