There was a time when Abraham Lincoln was first introduced to Harriet Beecher Stowe, and he said something to the order of, "Well, here is the little lady whose book started this great War."
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Civil War started because the Northern Senators were proposing legislation that would have crippled the shipping from the South, amd the Southern Senators warned them there would be a Secession if they persisted in trying to push these Bills through.
Of course, that is exactly what happened, and the South retaliated.
Uncle Tom's Cabin wasn't the cause of the Civil War, but came at about the right time to add to the list of reasons that the North felt justified in wiping out their Southern cousins in the bloodiest War ever fought by Americans.
I can guess what the ordinary teacher would expect as an answer to your question, "The book started the Civil War." However, history doesn't support this popular myth.
It was used as propaganda for the north showing the brutality of slavery (even if it was a little exaggerated). This was one reason for the start of the Civil War.
****.. i did a report on this in like 4th grade.. uh, it opened the public's (specifically the northern) eyes to the cruelty of slavery and how the african american people struggled in their daily lives. it was also one of the first popular novels written by a female in america. i don't remember much else.
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There was a time when Abraham Lincoln was first introduced to Harriet Beecher Stowe, and he said something to the order of, "Well, here is the little lady whose book started this great War."
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Civil War started because the Northern Senators were proposing legislation that would have crippled the shipping from the South, amd the Southern Senators warned them there would be a Secession if they persisted in trying to push these Bills through.
Of course, that is exactly what happened, and the South retaliated.
Uncle Tom's Cabin wasn't the cause of the Civil War, but came at about the right time to add to the list of reasons that the North felt justified in wiping out their Southern cousins in the bloodiest War ever fought by Americans.
I can guess what the ordinary teacher would expect as an answer to your question, "The book started the Civil War." However, history doesn't support this popular myth.
It was used as propaganda for the north showing the brutality of slavery (even if it was a little exaggerated). This was one reason for the start of the Civil War.
****.. i did a report on this in like 4th grade.. uh, it opened the public's (specifically the northern) eyes to the cruelty of slavery and how the african american people struggled in their daily lives. it was also one of the first popular novels written by a female in america. i don't remember much else.