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Answer:It also forced people in northern states to take sides on the issue of slavery.
Explanation:Prior to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, northerners could view slavery at a distance; it was a problem to be dealt with by southerners. Abolition was pretty far from a good deal of people's minds.
The Fugitive Slave Act made it a crime not to turn in people suspected of being a runaway slave, so it forced people to take a stand -- either by choosing to follow the law, or, as noted in the Emerson quotation that Mark B posted, to choose to disobey it. Either way, someone was taking a stand on slavery in a way that many people did not have to do in the north prior to 1850.
Where are the choices of the thinkers?
The first battle of bull run marked the first major land battle in America civil war. The engagement began when about 35,000 union troops marched from the federal capital in Washington D.C. to strike a confederate force of 20,000 along a small river know as bull run.