What was one important consequence of the fugitive slave act of 1850?
a. the law improved relations between the north and south and ease any remaining tensions.
b. the abolition movement gained support as the law forced northerners to take part in the system of slavery.
c. fewer runaway enslaved people were captured and returned because the law was too lax and had too many loopholes.
d. many more enslaved people escaped to the north because the law ensured that they would be protected.

b. The abolition movement gained support as the law forced Northerners to take part in the system of slavery.

b. The abolition movement gained support as the law forced Northerners to take part in the system of slavery.

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire