Question

What was the “Christiana Riot”?

A) a response to the personal liberties laws
B) one example of the successful enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act
C) one example of a group of free blacks who mobilized to protect fugitive slaves
D) the response of northern whites to the Fugitive Slave Act

Please help, which of these are true...

Answer 1

One member of the posse, landowner Edward Gorsuch, was killed and two others wounded during the fight. In the aftermath of the so-called Christiana Riot, 37 African Americans and one white man were arrested and charged with treason under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Law. Most were acquitted.

Answer 2

C) one example of a group of free blacks who mobilized to protect fugitive slaves.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Christiana Riot happened when and expedition of white people tried to re-capture some escaped slaves in the city of Christiana, Pennsylvania, which was a ressitance of free black men against the re-capture of 4 blacks that escaped slavery and after the congress passed a law where all escaped slaves should be returned to their owner and was a violent series of ressistance and eneded up on almost 40 people wounded or assasinated.