The most significant effect of the Fugitive Slave Law, passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, was
a. an end to slave escapes and the Underground Railroad.
b. the extension of the Underground Railroad into Canada.
c. a sharp rise in northern antislavery feeling.
d. a growing determination by radical abolitionists to foment violent slave rebellions.
e. growing northern hostility to radical abolitionists.
Answer: C