Fugitive slave act 1850

At the end of this assignment you will find the text of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. Read through the Act and chapter 10 of your textbook, and then consider the following questions:

1) Why was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 created?

2) Suppose an escaped slave should flee from his or her state to a Territory, which was not a
state. Could this be a way for the slave to escape his or her master successfully? Please explain your answer.

3) How could an escaped slave and someone opposed to slavery manage to subvert the Act?

4) Consider the Fugitive Slave Law in the context of the time in which it was created. Do you
thing this Act was good or bad for the United States? Please explain.

Now, write a paper of no less than 1,000 words total that addresses each of the questions (NOT 1,000 words per question – the entire paper must be at least 1,000 words).

​​the textbook
​​the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Citation guidelines:

Citations need to be provided after every paragraph in which you address information given in one of the sources. While no quotes will be permitted for this assignment, you still need to provide citations whenever you refer to information located in either the newspaper or in the textbook.

for material taken from the textbook, simply write: (textbook, p. ), filling in the page for material taken from Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, simply write: (Act, p. ) filling in
the appropriate paragraph number

Additional Requirements:

use complete sentences
use scholarly prose -- "text message format" is not allowed, you are writing
formal college papers, not text messages. That means

       > no contractions
       > use consistent verb tenses

paragraphs are nice things--use them (remember, it takes at least three
(3) sentences to make a paragraph)
when referring to a decade or a century, use the following: 1800s, 1920s
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