In the 1850s there was something called the Fugitive Act. The Fugitive Slave Act was the most controversial bills that was passed in the fifties. It required citizens to assist in the recovery of fugitive slaves. It denied a fugitive's right to a jury trial. The act called for changes in filing for a claim, making the process easier for slave-owners. Also, according to the act, there would be more federal officials responsible for enforcing the law. Many left the country and started a new life in Canada. During the next ten years, an estimated 20,000 blacks moved to the neighboring country. First of all, the fact that they made these bills in my opinion was antifederalistic in my opinion. It was giving states rights that they would all agree on and were coming up with a good way to control the situation while giving everyone what they asked. Also, another very antifederalistic thing I noticed about what the States did is that when forming the new states that they were getting, such as California, they decided not to make it either a free or slave state. They thought it would be better to let the future inhabitants of the state decide.
My cousin Lupe agrees that these ideas are antifederalistic and adds, "this solution was only temporary." I thought this was interesting because though this, in my and my cousin's opinion, was a very smart way to go about fixing these problems between the north and the south, the states ended up dividing in the end.
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