Britain called them the “Coercive Acts” while America called them the “Intolerable Acts”
Answer:
This question is incorrect, the correct question should be
What were some ways that Northerners defied the Fugitive Slave Act?
Explanation:
The Fugitive Slave act was Part of the Compromise of 1850 . That anyone that helped a fugitive could either be fined or imprisoned. Though Some Northerners resisted, declined and refused to obey the new law.
Henry David Thoreau in his essay of 1849 titled "Civil Disobedience," wrote that if the law "requires you to be the agent and cause of injustice to another, then I say, break the law."
The Northerner juries declined to convict people who were accused of breaking this new law.
People gave out money to buy freedom for the enslaved people, and the Freed African Americans and whites formed a network, or an interconnected system, called the "Underground Railroad" which is intended to help runaways to find their way to freedom.
Later in 1953, Democrat Franklin Pierce became the president and he intended to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act upon assuming office
There were a couple of reasons for this. First, the Americans were an invading force, and the Vietnamese were fighting on their own soil. Second, the Americans were not willing to make an all-out commitment to win.
