SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
TENSION OVER SLAVERY IN THE 1850S
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Question
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Who led a posse that brutally executed proslavery settlers near Pottawatomie Creek?
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John Brown
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Preston Brookes
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Charles Sumner
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Zachary Taylor
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The three men were escorted by their captors out into the darkness, where Owen Brown and his brother Frederick killed them with broadswords.
Detailed explanation-2: -John Brown sought revenge for the Sack of Lawrence by murdering five proslavery men near the banks of the Pottawatomie Creek. Wikimedia Commons image. Event Summary: Date: May 24-25, 1856.
Detailed explanation-3: -Militant American abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia), in 1859 that he hoped would spark a slave rebellion.
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