Question

Upon meeting her, why did Abraham Lincoln (allegedly) say to Harriet Beecher Stowe,

Answer 1

The correct answer is B) Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin had brought abolitionist sentiment into the mainstream, increasing sectional tension to the breaking point.

Upon meeting her, why did Abraham Lincoln (allegedly) say to Harriet Beecher Stowe, “So you’re the little lady who started this great war!” He said that because Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin had brought abolitionist sentiment into the mainstream, increasing sectional tension to the breaking point.

The novel "Uncle's Tom Cabin" was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1850 and refers to the inhuman way in which slaves lived in the southern plantations. When the author visited the White House on December 1862, it is said that President Abraham Lincoln expressed those words to her. There is no proof of that, but its part of the myths of the time.

Answer 2

B.

Uncle Tom's Cabin dramaticly increaced abolitionist support in the North, while outraging Southerners, by protraying them as cruel.