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It helped to cause it.
The Act put ordinary citizens under an obligation to report anyone who looked as though they might be a runaway slave, on pain of a heavy fine.
The public responded by setting up the Underground Railroad - a sysem of safe-houses by whch fugitive slaves could be smuggled into Canada.
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' as her own angry response to the Act. It brought many new converts to the cause of Abolitionism, and generally raised the temperature of the debate.
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What were two ways that people resisted the Fugative Slave Act?
People helped hide fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad and wouldn't turn them over to slave catchers. They also helped many slaves escape to Canada.
What issues and events shattered the nation's unity and led to civil war?
Fugitive slave act in 1850 along with government control toward slave states and slave free states.
What does succession mean during the civil war?
It means the act that the Confederate slave states did when they left the Union. They Seceded.
How did the Fugitive Slave Act 1850 help cause the US Civil War?
The Fugitive Slave Act did not make or cause the US Civil War. The war began in 1861 a full 11 years after the law was passed and Lincoln vowed to enforce it. Therefore, the war and the Fugitive Slave Act are not connected.
Was the fugitive slave act anti or pro slavery?
The Fugitive Slave Act was a pro-slavery part of the Compromise of 1850.
