What Was the Reaction of Many Northerners to the 1850

question 76

Multiple Choice

What was the reaction of many northerners to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act?

• A) They joined with southerners to prevent runaway slaves from escaping to Canada.
• B) Although some Northerners saw the act as the price of saving the Union, many more saw it as a vile monument of infamy and therefore took up the abolition cause.
• C) They began campaigns to repeal the old "personal-liberty laws" that had been passed under the Articles of Confederation.
• D) In Boston and other northern cities, mobs surrounded houses where runaway slaves were hiding, and forced the owners to surrender the fugitives.
• E) They built special jails to accommodate slaves captured on northern soil.

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