Address the following questions: 1. What was the Fugitive Slave Act of the compromise of 1850? *describe in detail * – What impact did it have on both southern and northern (slave and free) blacks? * – How did it galvanize the abolitionist movement? 2. How did Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, help transform slavery from a (primarily) political-economic issue into a “moral” crusade? What was the North’s reaction to the book? What was the South’s response?
