USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the end, the north refused to enforce it. Massachusetts even called for its nullification, stealing an argument from John C. Calhoun. Northerners claimed the law was unfair.

Detailed explanation-2: -Those Southerners who valued slavery more than their country; however, tended to be upset about the compromise because it held out the possibility that slavery’s expansion wasn’t guaranteed in the future.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most northerners did not doubt that black people were inferior to whites, but they did doubt the benevolence of slavery. The voices of Northern abolitionists, such as Boston editor and publisher William Lloyd Garrison, became increasingly violent.