Causes of the Civil War: The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Law


This provision of the Compromise of 1850 was by far the most controversial, setting off a new wave of abolitionism and anti-South sentiment. Even many who were content to see slavery continue were now seeing this as a governmental endorsement of kidnapping. The Fugitive Slave Law and the notion of popular sovereignty haunted the Union from that point into the Civil War.

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Sources Used:

Don't Know Much About The Civil War, Kenneth Davis: 1996.

Ordeal By Fire, James MacPherson: 1992.

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