MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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Question
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The main effect of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on American society was that it ____
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was a huge best-seller in the south
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led to a cabin building boom
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forced readers to understand the true brutality of slavery
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led to a Congressional vote that ended slavery
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In sum, Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin widened the chasm between the North and the South, greatly strengthened Northern abolitionism, and weakened British sympathy for the Southern cause. The most influential novel ever written by an American, it was one of the contributing causes of the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-2: -A major theme in Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the problem of slavery and the treatment of humans as property, concepts that Stowe counterbalanced against the morality of Christianity. Stowe’s depiction of slavery in her novel was informed by her Christianity and by her immersion in abolitionist writings.
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