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ALL of the following were reactions to the Fugitive Slave Act EXCEPT...

A. Some Northerners refused to obey the Fugitive Slave Act.

B. Northern juries refused to convict people accused of breaking the new law.

C. People gave money to buy freedom for enslaved people.

D. People formed the Underground Railroad to help slaves escape to Canada.

E. Henry David Thoreau encouraged people in the North to obey the law.D.

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E.

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Answer:

E. Henry David Thoreau encouraged people in the North to obey the law

Step-by-step explanation:

In his 1849 essay "Civil Disobedience," Henry David Thoreau wrote that if the law "requires you to be the agent [cause] of injustice to another, then I say, break the law."

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