The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the concession to the South concerning
A) slavery in the District of Columbia.
B) slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories.
C) the revised, more stringent and coercive Fugitive Slave Law.
D) settlement of the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute.
E) continuation of the interstate slave trade.

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The revised Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was alarming to northerners because it required citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves and denied alleged fugitive slaves the right to a jury trial, increasing the power of slaveholders and threatening the freedom of African Americans in the North.

The Most Alarming Aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to Northerners