North fear of a slave power conspiracy

Question 1

Fugitive slave law of 1850

Answer 1

Carried slavery into the north (in an attempt to recapture escaped slaves)
Suggested southerners would do whatever to extend slavery

Question 2

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 2

Written as a response to the fugitive slave law
Use of slave dialect

Question 3

Suggestion of the disconnected individual

Answer 3

Destroyed by slavery
The enslaved person not having a home (characters in Uncle Tom’s Cabin being sold from his family)

Question 4

Uncle Tom’s Cabin first appeared in

Answer 4

Journals and newspapers
Came out as a book later
Mid-1850s sold over 3,000,000 copies (including in Britain)

Question 5

Uncle Tom’s Cabin became a

Answer 5

Stage play
325 performances in New York
Brings transformation to spreading the way of performance (had a matinee performance)

Question 6

T. D. Rice minstrel show performer

Answer 6

The Great Original Jim Crow
Debate about the minstrel shows in the north/role they played in aiding the stereotype of the ex/slave

Question 7

Romantic radicalism

Answer 7

Lacked the hatred for black people
Operated by martialling racial stereotypes
Idea of slaves as docile and childlike

Question 8

Institution of slavery making slaves childlike

Answer 8

Topsy: “I wasn’t born, I just growed” - Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Idea of slaves not knowing their heritage/birthdates

Question 9

Typified by simple devotion

Answer 9

Idea of being sinful to take advantage of an African American

Question 10

Caused tension between

Answer 10

North and south

Question 11

Lincoln to Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 11

“You’re the woman who started the big war”