SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
UNCLE TOMS CABIN
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Researched actually slave accounts
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Fictional accounts that she made up
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Looked up the information on the internet
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Stowe always said she based the characters of her book on stories she was told by runaway slaves in Cincinnati. It is reported that “She observed firsthand several incidents which galvanized her to write [the] famous anti-slavery novel.
Detailed explanation-2: -Stowe was furious. She believed slavery was unjust and immoral, and bristled at an law requiring citizen-including her-complicity.
Detailed explanation-3: -Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which forbade anyone within the continental United States to help a runaway slave in any way and obliged them to report the slave to officials immediately. This made the slaves’ situation worse.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.
Detailed explanation-5: -“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.