SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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It eased sectional tensions by creating sympathy for southern farmers.
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It increased public support for abolition by giving a true account of the life of a slave.
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It led to increased support for slavery by portraying slave owners as benevolent caregivers.
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It caused public sentiment to shift in support of abolition by appealing to people’s emotions.
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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: -“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, Slavery, and the Civil War Stowe’s candor on the controversial subject of slavery encouraged others to speak out, further eroding the already precarious relations between northern and southern states and advancing the nation’s march toward Civil War.
Detailed explanation-3: -It brought slavery to life for many Northerners. It did not necessarily make these people devoted abolitionists, but the book began to move more and more Northerners to consider ending the institution of slavery.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe shared ideas about the injustices of slavery, pushing back against dominant cultural beliefs about the physical and emotional capacities of black people. Stowe became a leading voice in the anti-slavery movement, and yet, her ideas about race were complicated.
Detailed explanation-5: -The growing attitudes against the enslavement of Black people in the North, which had been reinforced by the content of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, no doubt helped to secure Lincoln’s victory. It would be an exaggeration to say that Harriet Beecher Stowe’s enormously popular novel directly caused the Civil War.