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| Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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| intended to show the cruelty of slavery. |
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| Uncle Tom's Cabin may be described as |
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| a powerful political force. |
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| As a result of reading Uncle Tom's Cabin,many northerners swore that they would have nothing to do with the enforcement of |
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| When the people of Britain and France read Uncle Tom's Cabin, their governments realized that |
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| intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the South would not be popular. |
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| Hinton R. Helper's book The Impending Crisis of the South argued that those who suffered most from slave labor |
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| were nonslaveholding southern whites. |
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| In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as |
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| n "Bleeding Kansas" in the mid-1850s, the Lecompton Constitution was identified with the proslavery element, and the New England Immigrant Aid Society was associated with |
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| the antislavery free-soilers. |
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| In 1856, the breaking point over slavery in Kansas came with an attack on Lawrence |
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| by a gang of proslavery raiders. |
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| resident James Buchanan's decision on Kansas's Lecompton Constitution hopelessly divided |
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| The Lecompton Constitution proposed that |
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| the state of Kansas have black bondage regardless of whether the document was approved or not. |
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| Kansas Territory's Lecompton Constitution was supported by President James Buchanan and |
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| proslavery settlers in Kansas. |
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| The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of |
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| popular sovereignty in the territories. |
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| The clash between Preston S. Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed the fact that passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North and South. |
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