History Exam 3- Fill In The Blank

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Arthur Shelby

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The "master" of the plantation whose financial burden forces him to sell Eliza's son. Through this character we are given the stark contrast of slavery and freedom. While Mr. Shelby treats his slaves well, he still "owns" them and is willing to sell them off to keep his status and belongings.

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Senator and Mrs. Bird

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______ live in the free state of Ohio, through which fugitive slaves often passed on their way to Canada. _____ helps pass the Fugitive Slave Act, which makes assisting runaway slaves a crime. However, when a real woman – Eliza – comes to his door with her child needing help and protection, his compassion overcomes his political maneuvering. _______, a kind woman who believes it is her Christian duty to help anyone in need, gently assists the _____ to understand why the Fugitive Slave Act is morally wrong. She is extremely grateful that his heart is better than his head, because she could not be married to a man who would turn away a woman trying to save her child. Her sympathies for Eliza are further aroused because her young son died recently. In this, _______ is a stand-in for Stowe herself, who felt greater sympathy for the plight of slave mothers because she lost a child.

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Eliza Harris

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Mrs. Shelby's handmaid, takes her young son on the run when she hears Mr. Shelby has sold him.Her crossing of the Ohio River on patches of ice is the novel’s most famous scene.

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Harry Harris

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Eliza's young son, sold off the plantation by Mr. Shelby (along with Uncle Tom)

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Uncle Tom

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A good and pious man, _____ is the protagonist of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Even under the worst conditions, he always prays to God and finds a way to keep his faith. As the novel progresses, the cruel treatment that ____ suffers at the hands of Simon Legree threatens his belief in God, but ______ withstands his doubts and dies the death of a Christian martyr.

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George Harris

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Eliza’s husband and an intellectually curious and talented mulatto, _________ loves his family deeply and willingly fights for his freedom. He confronts the slave hunter Tom Loker and does not hesitate to shoot him when he imperils the family.

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Topsy

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A wild and uncivilized slave girl whom Miss Ophelia tries to reform, ______ gradually learns to love and respect others by following the example of Eva.

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Prue

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She was a slave whose former master used her to breed children to sell off as slaves. She was sold to another master and had another baby that she got to keep, but when her mistress became sick it forced ______ to be away from the baby, so the baby died of starvation. was later beaten to death by her master

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Miss Ophelia St. Clare

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"Through this character, we see that Stowe doesn't like African Americans, OR slavery. St. Clare’s cousin Miss Ophelia is a pious, hard-working, abolitionist from the North. She's also unmarried, and beyond marrying age. When St. Clare brings her back to his Louisiana home to care for Eva while Marie St. Clare is ""ill,"" we can tell she’ll have things whipped into shape with a disgusted sniff in no time. Even though she’s an abolitionist, however, Miss Ophelia is prejudiced against blacks. Although readers respect Ophelia’s work ethic and devotion to principle, Stowe also uses her to satirize the subtle racism of the North. Many northerners are happy to tell the South what to do about slavery and to condemn southern practices, but those same northerners are often unwilling to interact personally with blacks. "

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Augustine St. Clare

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had never pretended to govern himself by any religious obligation; and a certain fineness of nature gave him such an instinctive view of the extent of the requirements of Christianity, that he shrank, by anticipation, from what he felt would be the exactions of his own conscience, if he once did resolve to assume them. For, so inconsistent a thing is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short. (28.4) (another take on his character::::) Tom’s master in New Orleans and Eva’s father, ______ is a flighty and romantic man, dedicated to pleasure. ______ does not believe in God, and he carouses and drinks every night. Although he dotes on his daughter and treats his slaves with compassion, ______ shares the hypocrisy of Mr. Shelby in that he sees the evil of slavery but nonetheless tolerates and practices it.

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Marie St. Clare

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St. Clare’s wife, a self-centered woman. Petty, whining, and foolish, she is the very opposite of the idealized woman figure that appears repeatedly throughout the novel.

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Eva St. Clare

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St. Clare and Marie’s angelic daughter. ______, also referred to in the book as Little _____ (her given name is ______) is presented as an absolutely perfect child—a completely moral being and an unimpeachable Christian. She laments the existence of slavery and sees no difference between blacks and whites. After befriending Tom while still a young girl, ______ becomes one of the most important figures in his life. In death, becomes one of the text’s central Christ figures.

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Simon Legree

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Tom’s ruthlessly evil master on the Louisiana plantation. A vicious, barbaric, and loathsome man, ______ fosters violence and hatred among his slaves

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Quimbo

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One of Legree's overseers. Brutalizes fellow slaves. Sambo and he beat Tom to death, ask for forgiveness, and are converted to christianity.

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Cassy

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Legree’s (slave) mistress and Eliza’s mother, _______ proves a proud and intelligent woman and devises a clever way to escape Legree’s plantation.