SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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He planned to blow up the arsenal
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Brown and a small band of blacks and whites gathered at Harpers ferry in what is now West Virginia. There, they attacked the federal arsenal, a place where weapons were kept.
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He planned to capture the troops and force the south to surrender to him
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Harpers Ferry. John Brown’s plan seemed fairly straightforward: he and his men would establish a base in the Blue Ridge Mountains from which they would assist runaway slaves and launch attacks on slaveholders. At least that was the plan that the militant abolitionist had described to potential funders in 1857.
Detailed explanation-2: -On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan to arm slaves with the weapons he and his men seized from the arsenal was thwarted, however, by local farmers, militiamen, and Marines led by Robert E. Lee.
Detailed explanation-3: -Brown believed that after he seized the arsenal, masses of slaves would rebel against their masters and join the revolt. He planned to distribute guns and spears to his new army, strike southward, and set off a chain reaction of slave uprisings throughout the South.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.