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Which of the following laws punished northerners who assisted escaped slaves?
A. the Indian Removal Act
B. the Kansas-Nebraska Act
OC. the Homestead Act
OD. the Fugitive Slave Act

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D. the Fugitive Slave Act

The Fugitive Slave Act (especially the stronger 1850 law) imposed penalties on anyone who aided escaped enslaved people, required citizens and officials to assist in their capture, and denied many legal protections to the accused.