Contradictions in the Constitution #2

What is the topic of this video?

• Slavery & the 3/5 Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

So by law, if you escaped slavery you could legally be hunted down and brought back to your owner, which means, even after escaping, you would never really be....

Finish the sentence above.

So people at the time knew this Fugitive Slave Clause was wrong. They viewed it as ______________________.

• fraud

• kidnapping

So at the same time that the Constitution was being written, laws were being passed in individual ____________ against slavery. So the Federal Government was fighting to keep slavery legal, while some states in the north were working to ________ slavery.

• states, abolish

• nations, maintain

So the original Constitution had this thing called the Fugitive Slave Clause, but it wasn't being enforced, so souther states pushed for a Fugitive Slave Act that would _____ northern states to turn over runaway slaves.

• 
  

  help

• force

One way they tried to enforce the fugitive slave clause was by giving ________ to people who hunted down runaway slaves.

• rewards

• punishment

Sources like this prove that, even at the time, people who were profiting from slavery also knew that slavery was ________.

• wrong and unjust

• popular and fair

What does he mean by "we shouldn't avert our eyes either."?

Complete sentences please.

HINT: If you need help, click rewatch. Also, avert means to turn away from.