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What law required slaves who had escaped to free states to be forcibly returned to their owners in the South if caught?

Missouri Compromise

Dred Scott Act

Fugitive Slave Act

Nebraska-Kansas Act

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Fugitive Slave Act.

This law (especially the strengthened Fugitive Slave Act of 1850) required that escaped enslaved people found in free states be returned to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided escapees.