Uncle Tom's Cabinet

What did the book do to the relationship between the North and South?

• It fueled animosity between the Northern and the Southern states

• It brought the Northern and Southern states together to agree that slavery was legal and right

• It brought the Northern and Southern states together to agree that slavery was illegal and wrong

Why was the book written?

• To make a lot of money

• To fuel amnesty between the north and south

• To start the Civil War

• To help shape the public’s opinion of slavery

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beacher Stow

• Robert E Lee

• Fredrick Douglas

An abolitionist is 

• a person who put the welfare of the country above their region
• a person in favor of slavery
• a person who wanted to end slavery
  
• a person who wanted to end the spread of slavery

What did Uncle Tom’s Cabin convince the North of?

• That it was ok to own a slave

• That you shouldn’t have more than two slaves

• That Uncle Tom had a nice cabin

• That slavery was wrong

How did the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin come up with the story?

• Researched actually slave accounts

• Fictional accounts that she made up

• Looked up the information on the internet

What law inspired Stowe to write the book?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Dawes Act
• Lincoln-Douglas Act

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Why was Tom not able to get his freedom when St. Clair owned him?

• St. Clair refused
• St. Clair died
• St. Clair didn't have legal authority
• none of these

Although the book is about slavery Stowe never lived in a _________________ state.

• free
• slave
• northern

Slave owners condemned Uncle Tom's Cabin as "unfair and inaccurate."

• True
• False