The years leading up to the Civil War were marked by strong disagreements. Tension _________ between North and South until war broke out.
What is escalated?
100
Legree treated Uncle Tom brutally. Trying to make him whip the weak, female slave was a ________ act.
What is monstrous?
100
Supporters of the South told Stowe to mind her own business and stay out of theirs. She would probably have replied that she was proud to be called _________.
What is meddlesome?
100
woke
What is roused?
100
delight
What is agony?
200
Those who helped slaves escaping from their owners put themselves at risk. It was a crime to ________ runaway slaves.
What is harbor?
200
Punishment was harsh for slaves who displeased their masters. The whipping _____ on Uncle Tom was so severe that he died.
What is inflicted?
200
Stowe devoted her life to ending slavery. It must have made her very happy when slavery was ____________ in 1863 by order of President Lincoln.
What is abolished?
200
interfere
What is meddle?
200
love
What is loathe?
300
Stowe felth that she had to do something to help end slavery. She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin to ___________ the people against what she felt was a terrible evil.
What is rouse?
300
Eliza and her child are central to the story of Uncle Tom's Cabin. These are the two ______ that readers probably care about the most.
What are characters?
300
Stowe wrote other books besides Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was her story of slavery in America that ________ her to world fame.
What is catapulted?
300
criticize
What is denounce?
300
tiny
What is monstrous
400
Slaveholders could break up whole families by selling their members separately. We cannot imagine the _______ suffered by the parents and their children.
What is agony?
400
Eliza made up her mind to escape. She made her decision after hearing the _______ news that her child was to be sold.
What is grim?
400
Uncle Tom's Cabin was popular with readers all over the world. It was first __________ into German and then into many other languages.
What is translated?
400
move suddenly
What is catapult?
400
begin
What is abolish?
500
There are some hateful people in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Readers of the book probably feel the greatest __________ for Simon Legree.
What is loathing?
500
Southern slave owners were upset by Uncle Tom's Cabin. They _______ Stowe for interfering in matters she didn't understand.
What is denounced?
500
Harriet Beecher Stowe shows that one person can make a difference. She was _______ in her determination to end slavery.