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How did the Compromise of 1850 increase tensions between the North and the South?

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Mainly because it toughened-up the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing official slave-catchers to hunt down runaways.
This recruited many new Abolitionists, and caused Harriet Beecher Stowe to write 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
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