SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
START OF THE CIVIL WAR
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Question
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To show the democratic party that he would stop at nothing to end slavery
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To make American’s all across the country to recognize him as a political threat
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To get Abraham Lincoln elected
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To attack an arsenal and start a slave rebellion
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -He believed that he was “an instrument of God", raised up to strike the “death blow” to American slavery, a “sacred obligation". Brown was the leading exponent of violence in the American abolitionist movement, believing it was necessary to end American slavery after decades of peaceful efforts had failed.
Detailed explanation-5: -Brown intended to use firearms seized at Harpers Ferry to commence a war to end slavery, but failed to do so. Sixteen months later, at the outbreak of the Civil War, only 15, 000 weapons were stored at Harpers Ferry.