What happened during the fugitive slave act?

Slaves were returned to their owners even if they were in a place that had outlawed slavery

Explanation:

This new law forcibly compelled citizens to assist in the capture of runaways as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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