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Praxis II Citizenship

Category - US History

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Why was Uncle Tom’s Cabin historically significant?
  1. It was an anti-slavery novel that fueled the abolitionist movement.
  2. It was a propaganda pamphlet about a man who lived alone in the woods in a cabin he built himself, arguing for a “return to nature.”
  3. It was an anti-war treatise that argued for secession.
  4. It was a pro-slavery pamphlet that encouraged the popular sovereignty movement.
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Answer: A - Uncle Tom’s Cabin was an anti-slavery novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1845, and it fueled the abolitionist movement in the years leading up to the Civil War. It was America’s first major bestseller and it ultimately became the bestselling book in the United States in the whole 19th century, save for the Holy Bible.
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