Why Did So Many Northerners Ignore the Fugitive Slave Act

question 16

Multiple Choice

Why did so many Northerners ignore the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793?

• A) Northerners resented the imposition of slaveholding values on their states.
• B) The law was passed illegally by powerful Southerners.
• C) The Fugitive Slave Act turned free states into slave states.
• D) Northerners held less regard for the laws than Southerners did.

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