Upon meeting her, why did Abraham Lincoln (allegedly) say to Harriet Beecher Stowe,
“So you’re the little lady who started this great war!”
A The Supreme Court case about Stowe (an enslaved woman who had crossed to a northern state with her owner and then unsuccessfully sued him for freedom) had outraged abolitionists in the North.
B Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin had brought abolitionist sentiment into the mainstream, increasing sectional tension to the breaking point.
C Stowe’s advocacy of the institution of slavery through widely-published tracts and pamphlets had prompted Southern states to secede from the Union.

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.