A major objective of both the Annapolis Convention and the Philadelphia Convention were both based around revising certain things such as the Articles of Confederation and trade barriers, but more so to create a new government, rather than to fix the weaker one which was in place.
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. ... Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.
They voted republican because the republicans supported their rights. They were taking action to get them their rights. <span />
The response of the United States to the treatment of Jews by Nazi regime was shocking because the treatment, the deaths, the conditions, and the skeleton-like people. The US also was horrify what they saw what the Nazi did to the poor Jews.