MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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Nat Turner
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John Brown
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Harriet Tubman
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Fredrick Douglas
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ordering the Marines under his command to attack, the military men stormed John Brown’s Fort, taking all of the abolitionist fighters and their captives alive. In the end, John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry ended in failure.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jefferson County, WV | Sep 12-15, 1862. From September 12 to 15, 1862, Confederate forces under Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson besieged the 13, 000-man garrison at Harpers Ferry resulting in the largest surrender of American troops until World War II. Confederate Victory.
Detailed explanation-3: -Anderson, William Thompson, Dauphin Thompson, Brown’s sons Oliver and Watson, Stewart Taylor, Leeman, and free African Americans Lewis S. Leary and Dangerfield Newby had been killed during the raid. John E. Cook and Albert Hazlett escaped into Pennsylvania but were captured and brought back to Charles Town.
Detailed explanation-4: -John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia).