HIST 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Free Soil Party, Missouri Compromise, Southern Democrats
16 Dec 2017
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That slaves could potentially run o to places where slaves were free. Idea was that people who lived in areas where slavery was illegal were obliged to return to their owners. The laws of one state would be respected in another state. Southerners felt that this law was not being adequately enforced and as a result of the. Compromise of 1850 revision was that there would be a fugitive slave law to be enforced. Was seen as an important concession to the southern states. Southerners felt that if their property wasn"t secure in the union, they didn"t wanna stay in the union which created a backlash. People were outraged by the government because the government clearly aligned itself with the slaveholders in this regard and it demonstrated that slavery was centrally part of the. American society and politics has a national basis. Opened a vast area of the american heartland to settlement.
