Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850 and The Fugitive Slave Law

The belief that government is subject to the will of the people.

Define Popular Sovereignty.

The rivalry based on the special interests of different areas.

Define Sectionalism.

A person who is running away from legal authority.

Define Fugitive.

The Northerners refused to obey the new law because Henry Thoreau wrote that if the law "required you to be agent cause of injustice to another, of injustice to another, then I say, break the law." Northern juries refused to convict people accused of breaking a new law. Because the northern people were against slaves and abolitionist, they weren't willing to give the slaves back to their owners. The southerners were very happy with this law because when their slaves escaped they'd would hopefully get them back because it was the law to return them to their owners.

The Fugitive Slave Law, as part of the Compromise of 1850, was supposed to be part of a compromise that pleaded both the North and the South. Which area was happy with the law and why? Which was unhappy with the law and why?

Congress passed a bill giving Missouri statehood as a slave state. This happened under the condition that slavery was to be prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase which is north of the 36th parallel. Maine became a free state and Missouri became a slave state.

What are the conditions of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

Conditions for the compromise of 1850 admission California as a free state, the strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Law, popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico concerning the question of slavery, the abolition of the slave trade in D.C. , and the federal assumption of Texas's debt.

What were the conditions for the Compromise of 1850?

Required runaway slaves to be returned to owners. It sought to force the authorities in free states to return fugitive states to their masters.

What were the conditions of the fugitive slave law of 1850?

Henry clay created the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

Who created the Missouri compromise of 1820?

Because it would upset the balance of slave states between the South states (slave states) and the North states (non-slave states). There would be a higher number of slave states and a lower number of non-slave states. Because California wanted to be a free state, this would make the number of free states higher than the number of slave states.

Why did California requesting admission to the United States raise the issue of free and slave states?

Because of the Underground Railroad and the some people not wanting to turn in slaves and taking them into safety.

Why was this law difficult to enforce?