1. John Brown
Standard 8.68

3. -Involved in “Bleeding Kansas”
JOHN BROWN
-Violent abolitionist
-Involved in “Bleeding Kansas”
-Murdered 5 pro-slavery men in Kansas--Potawatomie Massacre
-Wanted to lead a slave revolt throughout the South by raising an army of freed slaves and destroying the South.

4. -He wanted to capture weapons and begin his slave revolt.
JOHN BROWN
-Attacked a U.S. Ammunition warehouse in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia in Oct. of 1859
-He wanted to capture weapons and begin his slave revolt.

8. -Put on trial for treason.
JOHN BROWN
-Unsuccessful and captured by U.S. troops under the leadership of Robert E. Lee
-Put on trial for treason.

9. Time Out
John Brown’s Final Speech

10. -He was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death.
JOHN BROWN
-He was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death.
-Northerners thought of John Brown as a martyr to the abolitionist cause.
-Southerners were terrified
-if John Brown almost got away with this there must be others like him in the North who are willing to die to end slavery.