USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

END OF THE CIVIL WAR

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This person led a raid at Harper’s Ferry, VA in an attempt to rob the armory and steal weapons to fight against slavery.

(A) Abraham Lincoln

(B) Nat Turner

(C) ** John Brown

(D) Harriet Tubman

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Concept note-1: -On the evening of October 16, 1859 John Brown, a staunch abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry. Descending upon the town in the early hours of October 17th, Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal.

Concept note-2: -Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery.

Concept note-3: -October 16, 1859 8:00 pm Brown and 18 of his men advance towards Harpers Ferry. 10:00 pm The men take both bridges, the U.S. Armory and Arsenal and the U.S. Rifle Works on Hall’s Island. 12:00 am Enslavers Lewis Washington and John Allstadt are taken hostage and the people they enslaved are freed.