The Fugitive Slave Act, which was not popular in the North, allowed slave hunters to retrieve slaves from all of the following locations EXCEPT:
a.
New York
c.
Massachusetts
b.
Canada
d.
New Jersey

Question

The Fugitive Slave Act, which was not popular in the North, allowed slave hunters to retrieve slaves from all of the following locations EXCEPT:
a.
New York
c.
Massachusetts
b.
Canada
d.
New Jersey

anonymous · Answer

Canada. The US government could not of course pass laws that applied to the territory belonging to another country.  This is why the underground railroad stories you hear about tend to end with freed slaves in Canada.