Why would Uncle Tom's Cabin be a cause of the Civil War?

A. It made people think differently about slavery by showing that it was not as bad as some believed.

B. It made people think differently about slavery by showing how horrific it was.

C. It made people realize that slavery in the North was an awful institution.

D. It convinced people that the North was evil and needed to be stopped.

Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 - only a few years before the start of the Civil War. It described the evils of slavery and proved just how horrific it was.

It was so important because of the effects it had on society.

In the North, where abolition feelings were already strong, they became even more outraged by slavery.
Southerners, who depended on slavery to keep their plantations running, were outraged at the way the book depicted slavery as evil.

So, it didn't prove slavery wasn't bad (A), slavery in the North was not common or discussed in the book (C), and it didn't convince people that the North was evil (B).

However, it did show people a different and horrific side to slavery (B), laying some groundwork for the civil war.