1. How Slavery
Impacted the
Beginning of the
Civil War

5. A group of Northerners
who wanted slavery to be
abolished.
Abolish means
to get
rid of.

6. A group of Southerners
who wanted slavery to
continue. Why?

7. Harriet Beecher Stowe
This book was important because it turned so many people against slavery.
1852

8. John Brown
1859

9. Raid on Harper’s Ferry Harpers Valley, Virginia 1859
John Brown wanted to help
slaves by giving them guns to
rebel against their owners. He and
a group of soldiers raided a
gun storage
facility in Harper’s Valley, Virginia.
Other soldiers surrounded the area, but Brown
refused to surrender.
1859

10. John Brown Two of John Brown's sons died
at Harpers Valley. Brown was wounded.

11. John Brown was put on trial and hanged for his
organization and involvement at Harper’s Ferry.

12. relate to the causes of the Civil War?
How did their actions
relate to the causes of the
Civil War?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, demonstrated
the atrocities of slavery, and it turned many
people (Northerners) against slavery.
John Brown
His raid on Harper’s Ferry showed that people
were willing to use violence to stop slavery .
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13. Short videos on the Raid at Harper’s Ferry: