History of Business Fugitive Slave Act The westward expansion of slavery was one of the most dynamic economic and social processes going on in this country. The Industrial Revolution had changed every aspect of American life and the country’s borders spread westward with the addition of the Mexican Cession—opening new cotton fields. To maintain the original Constitutional balance of lawmaking power‚ Congress continued to play the compromise game in 1820 and 1850 to maintain an equal number of
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part of the Southern way of life‚ and slave labor was a major aspect of the Southern states’ economy. Northerners opposed slavery yet were concerned that the political‚ economic‚ and conflict with the South over slavery could threaten a civil war between the two sides. The conflict intensified over the issue of fugitive‚ or escaped‚ slaves. Because slaves were treated as property in the South‚ slave owners felt it was their right to seek out and recapture slaves who had escaped to free Northern states
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It is often assumed that the civil war was based solely on the existance of slavery in the south. This assumption is generally made by people who are not fully educated on the topic‚ and are unable to fully understand each of the different factors that led to the civil war. While slavery did play an important role in the disunion of the north and south‚ the war itself was caused by disunion and disunion alone (Schweitzer‚ Jeff). The largest factors leading to the war composed of state’s rights‚
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differences between the North and the South led to the Civil War in the USA. The two parts of the country were developing at a different speed in the first half of 19th century‚ leading to a disparity in their economic situations as well as their social‚ cultural and political beliefs. While it is true that the US Civil War was triggered off by the issue of slavery‚ it would still be unfair to say that this phenomenon was the only cause of this war. However‚ slavery was the burning issue and the primary
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The Fugitive Slave Act | The Publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s‚ Uncle Tom’s Cabin On September 8th‚ 1850‚ the Fugitive Slave Act was created as a compromise. It stated to capture any fugitive/ runaway slave and to be returned to their owner because they considered slaves as their property. If anyone in the North were to be aiding a fugitive‚ they would be fined and imprisoned for about six months. Sometimes‚ slaves would escape by a secret system called the Underground Railroad. Later
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issue of expanding slavery. Factions in support of the Wilmot Proviso clustered together‚ and formed the Free Soil Party. Northerners had become increasingly suspicious of the Union‚ and believed that the Federal Government was run by an aggressive slave power—proslavery congressmen. The Free Soil Party pledged to resist such congressmen‚ and their suspected will to spread slavery into the west. With the introduction of the Free Soil Party‚ the Whigs and the Democrats were
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Many factors caused the lead-up to the Civil War. The country’s tension was high before the Civil War began for many different reasons that contributed to the Civil War. The tension was high due to many massacres and laws that even heightened the tensions between the North and the South states. South states believed heavily in slavery and wanted to keep slavery around strongly and firmly since the South depended on slaves to do agricultural work. However‚ the North believed that slavery was bad and
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The Fugitive Slave Act was one of the five acts contained in the Compromise of 1850. The highly controversial new law required the return of all runaway slaves to their masters. The recovery of runaway slaves was now under Federal Jurisdiction. Federal Marshalls were now bound by duty to return any runaway and also now had the authority to require assistance from any individual. If the assistance was not provided‚ the individual faced prosecution and fines. The law also stripped runaway slaves
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America Pre-Civil War Civil war in America was inevitable from the beginning. A country can not partake in slavery without an uproar. Tensions were high between the north and the south already because of their different ways of life. The north focused on mass production whereas the south’s biggest trade was agriculture. Slavery allowed the south to prosper‚ their whole economy was based off of it. Though change was inevitable two documents that sped up the war process were the Fugitive Slave Act and Harriet
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