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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?
Fugitive Slave Act
Missouri Compromise
Nebraska-Kansas Act
Dred Scott Act
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Fugitive Slave Act — (especially the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850) required escaped enslaved people found in free states to be returned to their owners.
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