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Why was the Brown raid so important? What did Brown intend to do? What were the effects of his actions?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What was the South's collective and individual state reaction to Lincoln's election? Why did the southern states exhibit varying reactions to the event?
 
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Answer to Question 1

Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Define the Brown raid as a long term plan to attack a gun factory carried out by John Brown and several white and black men to start a slave insurrection in Virginia.
2. Note that the outcome of the raid included most of the attackers being killed and John Brown being executed by the state of Virginia.
3. Conclude that the long term impact of the Brown raid was to anger the South and embolden northern abolitionists and southern slaves to continue resisting against slavery. The Brown raid was the spark that ignited the Civil War, as did the election of Abraham Lincoln shortly thereafter.

Answer to Question 2

Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Define the South as seventeen southern states divided between the Upper South, Deep South, and Border States.
2. Explain that the southern reaction to Lincoln's election was to call him a dictator and to vow to leave the Union to defend democracy in the form of owning black people.
3. Note that several southern states immediately left the Union, starting with South Carolina; some wait several months to leave; some southern states never left, such as four Border States during the war because of their close proximity to the northern states.
4. Conclude that this process of secession was seen as treasonous and a rebellion against federal authority by most northern whites but viewed as heroic and democratic by most southern whites, even those from states who did not leave the




wrbasek0

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Reply 2 on: Aug 9, 2018
Gracias!


6ana001

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

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