Fugitive Slave Act, 1850

The Fugitive Slave Act made the people in the North fear the slave power conspiracy. The Fugitive Slave Act said that all of the runaway slaves at that time were to be brought directly back to their masters. This act was put into place because of so many slaves escaping their owners and "running away". By so many of these slaves running away from their owners it made slavery an almost impossible acts within the borders of the states. The Fugitive Slave Act made all of the runaway slaves that escaped to a free state, that the people living in that free state had to return the slaves to their masters.
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The Fugitive Slave Act angered many people and helped many people in leading up to the early stages of the Civil War. The slave owners were very excited for this to happen because they knew that if their slaves were to escape then they would more then likely be returned back to the owners themselves. The many people who were against slavery did not like having to return the runaway slaves back to their owners because they did not believe in slavery themselves.