SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
UNCLE TOMS CABIN
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Westward Expansion
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Missouri Compromise
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The Great Compromise
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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 . The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many abolitionists openly defied the law. Reverend Luther Lee, pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Syracuse, New York, wrote in 1855: I never would obey it. I had assisted thirty slaves to escape to Canada during the last month.
Detailed explanation-3: -Republican and Free Soil congressmen regularly introduced bills and resolutions related to repealing the Fugitive Slave Act, but the law persisted until after the beginning of the Civil War. It wasn’t until June 28, 1864, that both of the Fugitive Slave Acts were repealed by an act of Congress.