THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
MISSOURI COMPROMISE OF 1820
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Fugitive Slave Act.
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Making Texas a Free State.
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Giving New Mexican Territory back to Mexico.
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Increasing the slave trade in Washington D.C.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Of all the bills that made up the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was the most controversial. It required citizens to assist in the recovery of fugitive slaves. It denied a fugitive’s right to a jury trial.
Detailed explanation-2: -Under this law fugitives could not testify on their own behalf, nor were they permitted a trial by jury. Heavy penalties were imposed upon federal marshals who refused to enforce the law or from whom a fugitive escaped; penalties were also imposed on individuals who helped slaves to escape.
Detailed explanation-3: -By 1850 sectional disagreements related to slavery were straining the bonds of union between the North and South. These tensions became especially critical when Congress began to consider whether western lands acquired after the Mexican-American War would permit slavery.
Detailed explanation-4: -It was controversial because the Southerners wanted the new states to be slave states and the Northerners wanted the new states to be fee states.