USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry increased tension between North and South because many Southerners, already weary of Northerners who were abolitionists, began to envision that all abolitionists were radicals like Brown, intent on ending slavery at any cost to Southern society.

Detailed explanation-2: -As a result of this judgment by New England intellectuals and the ensuing martyrdom of Brown in the North, many Southerners viewed the raid as a larger Northern scheme to directly attack the South, leading to increased sectional distrust and accelerating the approach of secession in 1861.

Detailed explanation-3: -On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sixteen people were killed in the raid, including ten of Brown’s men. John Brown, Aaron Stevens, Edwin Coppoc, Shields Green, and John Copeland were taken to jail in Charles Town, Virginia, on October 19. Albert Hazlett and John Cook were subsequently captured and jailed with the others.