Uncle Tom's Cabin, By Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Civil War, which was also known as the war between the states, was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America. The Confederate States of America were a collection of eleven southern states that actually left the Union in 1860 and eventually formed their own country, primarily to preserve the institution of slavery. The Civil War determined what kind of nation the United States would end up being. The War resolved one important question that was still unanswered, whether the United States, born of a declaration that all men were created equal, would in fact continue to exist as the largest slaveholding country in the world. Approximately 625,000 lives were lost during the Civil War, these men died so there would be changes in the United States. . The Civil War was caused by reactions to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, causes of seceding states in 1860, and the influential newspaper Charleston Mercury. Today, either state’s rights or slavery is said to be the reason of the Civil War Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is

The newspaper warned people in the south of the possible extinction of slavery. They believed that the abolition North was “endangering the lives of [their] people and [were responsible] for the destruction of [their] property.” Certainly, the south wanted slavery to remain, even to spread to the free states. For the south, slavery was the “most cherished and important institution” because of all the labor they got thanks to the slaves they owned. They did not want slavery to come to an end, but they also did not want to be perceived as immoral or depraved people for owning slaves. The newspaper was strongly secessionist, it attempted to convince South Carolinian men to go against the United States, basically to go to war, to preserve slavery. Eventually, that is exactly what the newspaper caused, a