Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin intended to show the cruelty of slavery.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin may be described as a powerful political force. - As a result of reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, many northerners swore that they would have. -When the people of Britain and France read Uncle Tom's Cabin, their governments realized that intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the South would not be popular.
The Impending Crisis of the South by Hinton R. Helper - Hinton R. Helper's book The Impending Crisis of the South argued that those who suffered most from slave labor were nonslaveholding southern whites. Bleeding …show more content…
- Secessionists supported leaving the Union because they were tired of abolitionist attacks; they believed that the North would not oppose their departure; the political balance seemed to be tipping against them; and they were dismayed by the success of the Republican Party.
Dred Scott Case - In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the United States Supreme Court expected to lay to rest the issue of slavery in the territories. - In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States; Dred Scott could not legally sue in a federal court; the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional; and Congress had no power to ban slavery from a territory. - The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by proslavery southerners. - For a majority of northerners, the most outrageous part of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott case was that Congress had never had the power to prohibit slavery in any territory.
Lincoln – Douglas Debates - As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Douglas defeated Lincoln for the