The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

question 32

Multiple Choice

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• A) won the grudging support of Ralph Waldo Emerson as a necessary compromise.
• B) gave new powers to federal officers to override local law enforcement.
• C) was declared unconstitutional in the Dred Scott case.
• D) angered southerners by weakening an earlier law on fugitive slaves.
• E) convinced Abraham Lincoln to retire briefly from political life.

---

Definitions:

Average Time

The mean value that summarizes how long a process or task takes, calculated by dividing the total time by the number of occurrences.

System

A set of connected or interrelated entities that form a unified whole, functioning together towards a common goal.

Poisson Process

A Poisson process is a statistical process that models the occurrence of random events in a fixed interval of time or space.

Mean Arrival Time

The average time it takes for an entity or set of entities to reach a certain point, commonly used in queueing theory and logistics.