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The Fugitive Slave Act
Effect
Effect
Effect
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Lesson 15.2 The Crisis Deepens

• Today we will discuss the impact of the Fugitive
  Slave Act on the slavery debate.

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Vocabulary

• impact influence or effect
• debate discussion or argument
• fugitive one who runs away or escapes

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Check for Understanding

• What are we going to do today?
• What person has had a positive impact on your
  life?
• What is a fugitive?

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What We Already Know

• Disagreements over slavery led to increased
  tensions between the North and the South.

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What We Already Know

• Californias request for statehood led to Henry
  Clays Compromise of 1850.

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What We Already Know

• The Compromise of 1850 contained a controversial
  new fugitive slave law.

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The Fugitive Slave Act

• No arrest warrant required
• No right to jury trial federal commissioner to
  rule on each case
• Commissioner received 5 for releasing the
  defendant and 10 for turning him over to a
  slaveholder
• Fines for those help runaway slaves
• Required Northerners to help recapture runaway
  slaves

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The Fugitive Slave Act

• Southerners believed slaves were property and
  should be returned.
• Northerners realized that, by supporting the
  Fugitive Slave Act, they were supporting slavery.
  
• Should they obey the law and support slavery, or
  should they break the law and oppose slavery?

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Meanwhile, Southern slave catchersroamed the
North, sometimes capturing free African Americans
instead of runaway slaves.
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What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

1. It allowed fugitive slaves to be arrested without
   warrants.
2. Officials were paid 10 for releasing the
   fugitive, but only 5 if he returned the fugitive
   to slavery.
3. Fugitives had no right to a jury trial.
4. It required that Northerners return runaway
   slaves to their masters.
5. It placed fines on people who helped runaway
   slaves escape.

Choose the one that is NOT true!
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10. Why did Northerners resent the Fugitive Slave
Act?

1. The act had been passed without any input from
   Northerners.
2. They didnt believe black fugitives should have a
   right to a jury trial.
3. If they obeyed or enforced the act, they would be
   supporting slavery.
4. The act would lead to higher taxes in the North.

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Uncle Toms Cabin

• Harriet Beecher Stowe was from a family that had
  helped runaway slaves escape.
• Her brother was a preacher and a leading
  abolitionist.
• She was outraged by the Fugitive Slave Act.

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Uncle Toms Cabin

• Her 1852 novel, Uncle Toms Cabin, dramatically
  portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral.

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Uncle Toms Cabin

• The novel includes dramatic scenes,
  such as the dangerous escape of a
  slave named Eliza and her
  baby across the Ohio River.
• Stowes book was wildly popular in the North, but
  criticized by white Southerners as inaccurate.

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Who was the author of Uncle Toms Cabin?

1. Margaret Chapman Howe
2. Harriet Beecher Stowe
3. Madeline Douglas Rowan
4. Henrietta Beckham Rowe

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11. How did Uncle Toms Cabin influence national
politics?

1. It increased abolitionist feeling in the North by
   showing the brutality of slavery.
2. It led many western states to prohibit free
   blacks from settling within their borders.
3. It caused Southerners to become angry over the
   lies they said it told about slavery.
4. It led to the creation of the Free Soil Party.
5. It helped convince Congress to pass the Fugitive
   Slave Act.

Choose all that are true!