The fugitive slave act of 1850 angered northerners because it:
a. contradicted pre-existing personal liberty laws.
b. required all citizens to support the slave system.
c. allowed states to arrestslave catchers.
d. gave states more power than federal government.

b - those executed came from every social and economic class

was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all americans. the era has had a lasting impact on united states society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism. in the south violence and fraud in southern elections from 1868 to 1876, which had reduced black voter turnout and enabled southern white democrats to regain power in state legislatures across the south