SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
START OF THE CIVIL WAR
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A compromise between the North and South over the question of slavery
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A decrease in slavery’s influence in the South
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Further tensions between Northern and Southern states over the issues of slavery and state’s rights
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The demand for more rights for slaves and free blacks
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Detailed explanation-1: -Although the raid failed, it inflamed sectional tensions and raised the stakes for the 1860 presidential election. Brown’s raid helped make any further accommodation between North and South nearly impossible and thus became an important impetus of the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Aftermath 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.
Detailed explanation-3: -When the abolitionist John Brown seized the largest Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in October of 1859, he forced the citizens of the United States to reconsider the immorality of the institution of slavery and the injustices enforced by the government.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.