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John Brown Was Born
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John Brown's Abolitionist Ideas Strengthen
While herding cattle, John witnessed a white slave owner beating a slave with an iron shovel. The memory of the beating together with his religious believe led to his strong Abolitionist ideas. -
John Brown Marries Dianthe Lusk
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John Brown Remarries after Dianthe Lusk's Death
He marries sixteen-year-old Mary Day who helps raise his 5 children. His second marriage produces another thirteen children -
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Bleeding Kansas
The period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraksa Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state. -
Pottawatomie Massacre
John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers—some of them members of the Pottawatomie Rifles—killed five settlers north of Pottawatomie Creek in Franklin County, Kansas. -
Harpers Ferry Raid
He leads a group of 21 men in an attack on the U.S. arsenal. This mission failed. -
John Brown was hanged for his actions
John Brown was hanged for treason.
