SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
UNCLE TOMS CABIN
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Question
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What was the Souths reaction to Uncle Tomś Cabin
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shocked
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sadden
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knowledgeable
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happy
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -White southerners were outraged by Uncle Tom’s Cabin and feared it might cause slave rebellions.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-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.
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