Which component of the Compromise of 1850 most enraged Northerners?

A) the Kansas-Nebraska Act

B) the acceptance of Missouri as a slave state

C) the Fugitive Slave Act

D) the nullification of the Missouri Compromise

E) allowing western states to vote for slavery

Component of the Compromise of 1850 most enraged Northerners is the Fugitive Slave Act. The Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as the part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.