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This effect the country because it caused an increase in slave purchases to help take care of the crops.
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It allowed California to join the union as free state with a tougher fugitive slave law in the South.
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 mandated that states to which escaped slaves fled were obligated to return them to their masters upon their discovery and subjected persons who helped runaway slaves to criminal sanctions.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's best known novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), changed forever how Americans viewed slavery, the system that treated people as property.
