The Fugitive Slave Act forcibly compelled citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves. It also denied slaves the right to a jury trial and increased the penalty for interfering with the rendition process to $1000 and six months in jail. In order to ensure the statute was enforced, the 1850 law also placed control of individual cases in the hands of federal commissioners. These agents were paid $10.00 for returning a suspected slave and $5.00 for freeing them.

Select the statement that DOES NOT apply:

Group of answer choices

1. It benefited the commissioners to return slaves not free them.

2. Popular vote would determine whether escaped slave should remain free.

3. The law made Northerners responsible for returning slaves.

4.Slaves did not have a right to due process of the law.

the founding fathers did not think women were asmportant as mern were and men could do more and better things then women

john maynard keynes developed new economic theories in response to the : b) great depression of the 1930s. his theories are so important that they are known as "keynesianism". in his works he supports the idea of a government with deeper involvement and intervention to end the great depression.

answer: in 1900, there were no "workplace safety laws"!

explanation: at the beginning of this century, workers in the united states faced remarkably high health and safety risks on the job.

a century ago in 1900 about three hundred out of every one hundred thousand miners were killed on the job each year.

[industria] developments occurred within a legal and regulatory climate that diminished employer’s interest in safety. as a result, americans developed production methods that were both highly productive and often very dangerous.

a u.s. citizen has to have lived in and been an american citizen for a year or more be for he or she can vote for presidential or country wide elections. they also have to register to vote. if the voting is for state representatives or issues, they have to have lived in that state for one month or more and meet the requirements for country wide elections.