Apush exam review 2018 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

APUSH Exam Review 2018 Verified 100% [FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT / NORTHERN REACTION] - Fugitive Slave Act definition. A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states. Northerners did not support this. [OSTEND MANIFESTO] - The Ostend Manifesto, aka Ostend Circular, was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain whil...