SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE ELECTION OF 1860
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they supported it and wanted the government to enforce it
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they opposed it and wanted the supreme court to strike it down
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they supported it but wanted the law to be left up to states to decide if they wanted to enforce it or not
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they neither supported nor opposed it
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Detailed explanation-1: -In response, black Americans and their white allies used force to protect fugitive slaves, sometimes attacking and even killing their pursuers. Conflicts sparked by the Fugitive Slave Law also infuriated southern slaveholders, who believed that the federal government was failing to keep northern abolitionists in check.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The main reason that most northerners were opposed to the new Fugitive Slave Act was that they felt it gave commissioners too much power and was unfair to slaves by giving them a trial without a jury.