Antebellum Reform Movements · US History

Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852) impacted the abolitionist movement by:

  1. Proving that the slave-based economy was highly efficient and profitable
  2. Supporting the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act
  3. Suggesting that slavery should be allowed to expand into the West
  4. Humanizing the experience of enslaved people for a Northern audience
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Correct answer: Humanizing the experience of enslaved people for a Northern audience

Stowe's novel brought the moral horrors of slavery into the homes of millions of Northerners who had previously been indifferent. It significantly increased anti-slavery sentiment and heightened sectional tensions leading up to the Civil War.

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