Uncle Tom's Cabin-Analytical Essay

Fought from year 1861 to year 1865 and with a final estimate of a little more than one million causalities, the American Civil War marks a violent but critical time period in the history of The United States of America. Like any war, the American Civil War did not erupt suddenly one day; many events slowly built up more bitterness between the Confederacy,n and the Union until the commencement of the war on April 12th. Among the many causes, the three most significant events were the Missouri Compromise, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s work, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860. Most white Americans craved the expansion of The United States to create a larger nation (The Missouri Compromise). And at this time, there was an equal balance of free states and slave states, but when Missouri announced that it wanted to join the United …show more content…
Readers from the south claimed the stories to be exaggerated and were outrageous while on the other hand, readers from the north became more aware and sympathetic for the runaway slaves (Harriet Beecher Stowe- Uncle Tom’s Cabin). This book was so controversial and aroused hatred between the confederacy and the union that when Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, he said, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war (Harriet Beecher Stowe- Uncle Tom’s Cabin).” This book was the second-best-selling book, next to the Bible, during the 19th century (Trigger Events of the Civil War) and it sold more copies in England than it did in America (Harriet Beecher Stowe- Uncle Tom’s Cabin). Her book impacted so many British citizens that they made it hard for the British parliament to support the Confederacy even though they were great allies with the southern states (Harriet Beecher Stowe- Uncle Tom’s