SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
JOHN BROWNS RAID
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Finding weapons to arm himself
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Getting the slaves to join him
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Capturing an arsenal to help him with the fight
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Winning the battle and freeing slaves
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Detailed explanation-1: -Escaped slaves faced a life of hardship, with little food, infrequent access to shelter or medical care, and the constant threat of local sheriffs, slave catchers or civilian lynch mobs. Plantation owners whose slaves ran away frequently placed runway slave advertisements in local newspapers.
Detailed explanation-2: -President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free."
Detailed explanation-3: -The Union, however, had the resources and population to endure and ultimately prevail. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, issued in 1863 after the costly Union victory at Antietam, freed all enslaved persons within the Confederacy.
Detailed explanation-4: -President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, announcing, “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious areas “are, and henceforward shall be free."