When Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly" in 1850, she took her learnings from being an anti-abolitionist since 1830, combined them with her Christian faith and created the story as a response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, that's considered to be one of the reasons that influenced the start of the American Civil War.
In her tale, she aims to question the morality of slavery and how this institution conflicted with her Christianity, and does this through the usage of strong imagery, racist depictions and the use of the stereotypes of the time in order to paint a clear picture of the reality that slave had to deal with.
The combination of all these elements resulted in the fact that, more than a political or economical issue, slavery was a moral problem.
So the correct answer is C: Slavery was presented as a moral problem which every person needed to confront
<u>Newcomers came to California</u> not only from Eastern Coast but also from all over the world, including remote countries like China. Their <u>main assertions and claims</u> were 1. <em><u>Rights to own "private land"</u></em>. Technically, California was still part of Mexico in 1848 and initially forty-niners operated under a confusing combination of Mexican and American rules and laws. 2. <em><u>Tribunal or court to resolve disputes</u></em>. Formally, California became a state in September of 1850. In the meantime, conflicts and disputes were mostly solved violently.
"B. whether slaves were citizens or property" is the correct answer. In this landmark case, the US Supreme Court decided that blacks were not citizens and therefore had no standing in court.
Clovis was a pagan, Frankish King of the early Middle Ages that ruled a small remnant state of what had been the Province of Gaul under the Roman Empire. The Franks were all divided into very small kingdoms that often waged war between themselves. After the Fall of the Roman Empire, the only purely "Roman" authority that remained was the Roman Catholic Church and the Kingdom of Soissons, the last Gallo-Roman state. Clovis conquered this state in the Battle of Soissons (486). In Clovis' time, Gaul was also heavily populated by Goths, who were believers of a form of Christianity that had been declared as heretic by the official Catholic Church. Now, Clovis's Burgundian wife, Clotilde was a Catholic Christian and she spent years trying to convince him to convert to Catholicism. He refused until one day he was in the Battle of Tolbiac (496) and according to the account of the battle by the Gallo-Roman historian Gregory of Tours, Clovis asked God for help in the battle and promised to convert to Catholicism if he won. After his victory he was indeed baptized and was able to conquer most of ancient Gaul which would eventually become <em>Frankia</em> or the Kingdom of Franks. Considering that Clovis had conquered the last Roman rump state, that most of his conquered subjects were Catholics, that the last Roman authority was the Catholic church, it is not difficult to see how converting to Catholicism would not only endear him to his new subjects but would also legitimize his conquests and make an ally out of the Roman Catholic Church that held a great matter of sway and temporal power over medieval Europe. Furthermore, the history of Clovis's prayer at the Battle of Tolbiac is probably apocryphal but it very cleverly drew a parallel between Clovis's conversion and the Conversion of the first Christian Roman Emperor Constantin I the Great who also converted after asking the Christian God for help during a battle.
