Robert E. Lee was placed in emergency command of a US Marine unit out of Washington to end Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry.
Colonel Robert E. Lee of the United States army.
The raid on the arsenal in Harpers Ferry, VA was anti-slavery. It was led by John Brown, the radical abolitionist October 16, 1859.
John Brown is Hanged
well it was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe it showed the cruelty of slavery and had the north thinking 2nd thoughts about slavery.john browns raid on harpers ferry caused tensions that pushed the usa to the civil war
John Brown's raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
John Browns Raid took place in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Virginia
He was not able to spark the popular uprising that he had hoped. He and his followers, mostly sons and sons-in-law, were left to fight the federal forces by themselves when no one joined them.
harpers ferry was a hub of trains and canals ,which provided escpe routes.
John Browns raid was at Harpers Ferry which is now in West Virginia.
harpers ferry was a hub of trains and canals ,which provided escpe routes.
Harpers Ferry, Virginia
Virginia - in what is now West Virginia
Because they thought he was trying to do the right thing
The raid deepened the division between the North and South
So that the slave owners would a lesson on keeping slaves
A. Why was John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry a turning point?