Answer:
1.economic interests, cultural values, the power of the federal government to control the states, and, most importantly, slavery in American society.
2.The act required that slaves be returned to their owners
3.governments to counteract the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Acts and to protect escaped slaves and free blacks settled in the North
4.John Brown was a leading figure in the abolitionist movement in the pre-Civil War United States.First reaching national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas
5.Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.During the Civil War, Douglass was a consultant to President Abraham Lincoln and helped convince him that slaves should serve in the Union forces and that the abolition of slavery should be a goal of the war.
