MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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death by hanging.
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life in prison.
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death by firing squad
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community service.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Brown was tried for treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the murder of five men, and inciting a slave insurrection . He was found guilty of all charges and was hanged on December 2, 1859, the first person executed for treason in the history of the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -Among those present at Brown’s execution were Thomas J. (later “Stonewall”) Jackson, then an instructor at Virginia Military Institute, John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, and Edmund Ruffin, who fired one of the first shots of the Civil War at Fort Sumter.
Detailed explanation-3: -He gave land to fugitive slaves. He and his wife agreed to raise a black youth as one of their own. He also participated in the Underground Railroad and, in 1851, helped establish the League of Gileadites, an organization that worked to protect escaped slaves from slave catchers.
Detailed explanation-4: -Militant abolitionist John Brown is executed on charges of treason, murder and insurrection on December 2, 1859.