1. Copy the following onto the top half of NB page 79.
The Fugitive Slave Act
Effect
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2. Lesson 15.2: The Crisis Deepens
Today we will discuss the impact of the Fugitive Slave Act on the slavery debate.

3. Vocabulary impact – influence or effect
debate – discussion or argument
fugitive – one who runs away or escapes

4. Check for Understanding
What are we going to do today?
What person has had a positive impact on your life?
What is a fugitive?

5. What We Already Know
Disagreements over slavery led to increased tensions between the North and the South.

6. What We Already Know
California’s request for statehood led to Henry Clay’s Compromise of 1850.

7. What We Already Know
The Compromise of 1850 contained a controversial new fugitive slave law.

8. The Fugitive Slave Act No arrest warrant required
No right to jury trial; federal commissioner to rule on each case
Commissioner received $5 for releasing the defendant and $10 for turning him over to a slaveholder
Fines for those help runaway slaves
Required Northerners to help recapture runaway slaves

9. The Fugitive Slave Act
Southerners believed slaves were property and should be returned.
Northerners realized that, by supporting the Fugitive Slave Act, they were supporting slavery.
Should they obey the law and support slavery, or should they break the law and oppose slavery?

10. Meanwhile, Southern slave catchers roamed the North, sometimes capturing free African Americans instead of runaway slaves.

11. Get your whiteboards and markers ready!

12. What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
It allowed fugitive slaves to be arrested without warrants.
Officials were paid $10 for releasing the fugitive, but only $5 if he returned the fugitive to slavery.
Fugitives had no right to a jury trial.
It required that Northerners return runaway slaves to their masters.
It placed fines on people who helped runaway slaves escape.
Choose the one that is NOT true!

13. 10. Why did Northerners resent the Fugitive Slave Act?
The act had been passed without any input from Northerners.
They didn’t believe black fugitives should have a right to a jury trial.
If they obeyed or enforced the act, they would be supporting slavery.
The act would lead to higher taxes in the North.

14. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe was from a family that had helped runaway slaves escape.
Her brother was a preacher and a leading abolitionist.
She was outraged by the Fugitive Slave Act.

15. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Her 1852 novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, dramatically portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral.

16. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The novel includes dramatic scenes, such as the dangerous escape of a slave named Eliza and her baby across the Ohio River.
Stowe’s book was wildly popular in the North, but criticized by white Southerners as inaccurate.

17. Get your whiteboards and markers ready!

18. Who was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Margaret Chapman Howe
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Madeline Douglas Rowan
Henrietta Beckham Rowe

19. 11. How did Uncle Tom’s Cabin influence national politics?
It increased abolitionist feeling in the North by showing the brutality of slavery.
It led many western states to prohibit free blacks from settling within their borders.
It caused Southerners to become angry over the lies they said it told about slavery.
It led to the creation of the Free Soil Party.
It helped convince Congress to pass the Fugitive Slave Act.
Choose all that are true!