As part of the Compromise of 1850, Congress passed a much stricter fugitive slave law.
This new law made many Northerners angry for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
A). The law allowed commissioners to be paid $5 if they released the person and $10 if they declared
the person a fugitive and sent him or her back into slavery.
B). The law imposed heavy penalties on marshals who did not enforce the law or on anyone who
tried to help a slave escape.
C). The law immediately banned the slave trade from the nation's capital, Washington, D.C.
D). The law gave more power to special commissioners who were catching enslaved people.
