Daniel Webster's "Seventh of March" speech controversially supported the second of these acts, which was passed to placate the South in the Compromise of 1850.
The Supreme Court ruled that states did not have to uphold one of these statutes in Prigg v. Pennsylvania. Citizens protesting another of these acts used a battering ram on the Boston courthouse to free Anthony Burns. Daniel Webster's "Seventh of March" speech controversially supported the second of these acts, which was passed to placate the South in the Compromise of 1850. For 10 points, name these acts that required Northern states to return escaped blacks to the South.
The Supreme Court ruled that states did not have to uphold one of these statutes in Prigg v. Pennsylvania.
{Fugitive Slave} Acts