SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
UNCLE TOMS CABIN
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Made them want more slaves
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Made them want to buy a cabin from Tom
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Made them become abolitionists
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Made them want their uncles Name to be ted
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin It made slavery personal and relatable instead of just some “peculiar institution” in the South. It also sparked outrage. In the North, the book stoked anti-slavery views.
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. In 1862, Stowe met President Abraham Lincoln while she was visiting Washington, DC.
Detailed explanation-4: -The book and the plays it inspired helped popularize a number of negative stereotypes about black people including that of the namesake character “Uncle Tom". The term came to be associated with an excessively subservient person.
Detailed explanation-5: -Which of the following effects of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was MOST significant in the 1850s? It brought more northerners to the abolition movement, causing them to be unwilling to compromise with the continued expansion of slavery.