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(this is for SC state history btw)
The Fugitive Slave Act allowed owners to send slave hunters into northern states to recapture runaway slaves. The South did get a tool for curbing things like the Underground Railroad. But over all, it came back o bite them. People in the North didn't know how cruel and immune slavery as practiced in the South really was. They hadn't seen it, in person. The FSL brought some of that cruellty North. Slave hunters treatment of slaves and their way of doing things, made Northerners more aware of what was going on with slaves. So instead of bringing the regions together, which the Compromise of 1850 was supposed to do, the FSL part of the Compromise made things worse. More anger, more hatred.
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This looks like an essay, or at least a short writing assignment. The attacks on abolitionist made the South look even more wicked to people in the North. That's the easy part. I don't know what all you have covered but you will need to supply some examples of attacks on abolitionists. I'd include the Grimke sisters and the beating of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor. Be sure to include information you have been studying.
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