SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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Question
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Northerners were pleased with the laws as they sought to expand slavery to the west.
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Many abolitionists in the north began focusing their efforts on the Women’s rights movements.
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Religious groups left the abolitionists movement to avoid the controversy.
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Northerners who believed that the law was unfair joined the abolitionists movement.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Northerners bristled at the idea of turning their states into a stalking ground for bounty hunters, and many argued the law was tantamount to legalized kidnapping. Some abolitionists organized clandestine resistance groups and built complex networks of safe houses to aid enslaved people in their escape to the North.
Detailed explanation-2: -Enslaved people continued to escape bondage. Fugitives living in the North and even free blacks felt threatened and organized for self-defense; thousands left for Canada. Abolitionists, black and white, protested in writing and speeches; some engaged in bold rescues of individuals claimed as fugitives.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 made the hunting down of escaped slaves, even in free states, fully legal. To abolitionists, this represented a huge blow to their efforts. Not only had the federal government endorsed slavery, but it had also committed to preserving the institution indefinitely.