Uncle Tom's Cabin And The American Revolution

Problems emerging from slavery's western development caused issues for the U.S. from the beginning. Fights arose over the westward expansion of slavery and over the position of the government in securing the attention of slave owners. Northern and Southern states started to oppose on the duties of the government in seizing and delivering runaway slaves back to their owners. Slaves remained essential to the country's economy, powering the south's plantation economy as well as giving crude materials to the Northern industrial economy. As the nation pushed westward in its quest for new land, people started wondering whether those grounds should be slave-states or free. Before the American Revolution, almost everybody thought slavery was a normal part of life. Slave laborers additionally offered insight to new revolutionary standards, goals that in time would become the ideological base

The publishment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), the Dred Scott Supreme Court Case (1857) are just three of these many events. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was an anti-slavery novel that paved the way to the civil war. The novel was the base of anti-slavery and had very vivid writings in it. In the South, they would burn the book because of how it portrayed slavery and it made them look bad. The book was eventually banned from the South, but up North the book didn’t cause that much chaos. The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed each region to make up their mind on the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. This would violate the Missouri Compromise, which helped keep the North from collapsing for the last 34 years. The South was mad that this act favored the North, so it made tensions worse. The Dred Scott Case was a decision made by the Supreme Court in 1857, a little before the start of the civil War. Dred Scott, a slave, wanted nothing more than to be labeled a free