1) It put free Black people at risk of being enslaved if they were accused of being a runaway.
2) It required all citizens to turn in any person they knew to have escaped from slavery.
The new Fugitive Slave Law threatened the freedom of Americans because (choose 2): (2 points)
It put free Black people at risk of being enslaved if they were accused of being a runaway.
It required all citizens to turn in any person they knew to have escaped from slavery.
It restricted the ability of slaveholders to travel across state lines.
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