The 1850 fugitive slave act increased tensions between the north and the south because? a. northerners were no longer able to ignore slavery and its effects. b. southerners were angry that northerners were capturing slaves to work in factories. c. the act encouraged enslaved persons to move north to escape bondage in the south. d. the act was a significant victory for northern abolitionists.

The 1850 fugitive slave act increased tensions between the north and the south because the act was a significant victory for Northern abolitionists.

Further Explanations:

During the era of early 1800, there was a drastic rise in tautness between the Pro-Slavery and Anti-Slavery territories of the United States. This tautness further escalate dafter Missouri’s demand as the demand was made for admittance of Missouri to the United States. The Free State citizens were not agreeing at the abolition of slavery as they considered slave inferior humans and as a result it many slaves were escaping from to the northern states. Their escaping created instability along the borders.

Fugitive slave act of 1850 was one of the most scandalous acts passed by the congress on 18th September 1850 as a part of compromise between the Northern Free State and Southern slaveholding state. The act heightened the fear of “Salve power”, according to which escaped slaves were recaptured and sent back to their masters. They returned to the same humiliation from where they have escaped.

Learn More

Answer Details:

Grade: High school

Subject: US History

Chapter: Fugitive salve act

Keywords: Fugitive salve act, Pro-Slavery, Anti-Slavery territories, United States, Missouri’s, scandalous acts, Northern Free State, Southern salve, Salve power

the commander in chief