Asked by Chuck Bass

Southerners were angered by Northern resistance to enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act.

True
False

All Answers 1

Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
True.

Northern refusal to comply with the Fugitive Slave Act angered Southerners, who saw it as a denial of their legal property rights and demanded federal enforcement — a major source of sectional tension in the 1850s.