As a Result of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

question 61

Multiple Choice

As a result of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850,

• A) sectional divisions eased.
• B) Ralph Waldo Emerson counseled northerners to cooperate with federal authorities regardless of what their consciences told them.
• C) the thousands of black refugees that sought safety in Canada challenged the image of the United States as an asylum for freedom.
• D) only border states like Virginia and Kentucky were affected.
• E) the Underground Railroad shut down for the next decade.

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