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The Mississippi River and its tributaries, the Ohio and the Missouri rivers, also connected the East to the western frontier. River was a major artery of transportation between the North and the South. The river functioned as the border between the relatively settled and industrial East and the primarily unsettled and undeveloped West.The main action takes place along the Mississippi River, which propels Huck and Jim into the southern states of Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi.Along with the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the ratification of Kansas' admission for free statehood, this legislation is part of the chain of events which culminated in the American Civil War. The Fugitive Slave Act The Fugitive Slave Act mandated the return of runaway slaves, regardless of where in the Union they might be situated at the time of their discovery or capture.

Racist beliefs, attitudes, and behavior that would be considered reprehensible today were commonplace then.Most white Americans, no matter where they lived and what their attitudes toward slavery were, agreed that black people were intellectually and morally inferior to white people.The whites in the South generally defended slavery and supported its extension into the new states.Southern states were dependent on slave labor.Northerners opposed the extension of slavery, citing moral as well as practical objections.In the 1830s and 1840s, after the North had abolished slavery, there began the great national debate over its extension in the new states created from the western territories.Entertainment and popular education were offered by traveling showmen, musicians, circus performers, preachers, and lecturers.No theaters, libraries, or museums in the region.Most children attended classes only long enough to learn to read and write.Few schools in rural Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, and Mississippi.Steam technology was becoming dominant.Industrialization was still in its early stages.Majority of people lived off the land, farming, hunting, fishing and trapping.Large stretches of land were sparsely inhabited.This region was still a frontier area.

Novel is set along the Mississippi River during the 1830s or 1840s.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain

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