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Teaching Background: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Background: Uncle Tom's Cabin

"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."\n\nThis was Abraham Lincoln's reported greeting to Harriet Beecher Stowe when he met her ten years after her book Uncle Tom's Cabin was published.

USHistory.org

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

Did Uncle Tom's Cabin start the war?
STANDARDS:
RH.2 - Main Ideas, RH.8 - Evaluate Argument

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

1,2,3
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