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The fugitive slave act 1850 happened because southern states wanted to demamned stronger laws to protect slavery. In 1850 congress passed the second fugitive slave act. The new act set severe penalties for anyone who helped an enslaved person escape from their owner/slavery. It also gave people called special commissioners the power to order the return of freedom seekers to their owners. Freedom seekers had no voice in their own cases though.

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In the United States before the American Civil War many people in the Southern states owned enslaved people. The Northern states did not allow slavery. Enslaved people therefore often tried to escape from the South to the North.

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How did this help expand the United States to fulfill the idea of Manifest Destiny? -miia

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How did this help expand the United States to fulfill the idea of Manifest Destiny? -miia

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this Act led to tensions over the idea of slavery. if you helped a slave to escaped, you would be responsible if you got caught.

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Henry Clay worked as a frontier lawyer before becoming a Kentucky senator and then speaker of the House of Representatives. He was the Secretary of State under John Quincy Adams in the 1820s, later returning to Congress, and pushed for the Compromise of 1850, with overall conflicting stances on race and slavery.

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During the event, if a slave would run away they would have to be returned to their owners. If one of the slaves ran away to the northern states which didn't allow slavery and someone saw them and just decided to do nothing and just let the them go and keep running, that person would be in trouble and they might even go to jail for that. Because you need to return them so nothing bad happens to you.

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The fugitive slave act 1850 took place in the northern and in the southern states, so basically all of america. It mostly took place in the southern states though, because if the slaves ran away to the northern states they would have to be returned back to their owners.