What was John Brown's role in the violence that led to "Bleeding Kansas"?
2 Answers
He organized raids against raids
Explanation:
John Brown is known for his opposition against slavery which led to use violence in Harper's Ferry for instance. He was eventually captured and hung by the South.
The label "Bleeding Kansas" can thus be attributed to him to a certain extent.
Why did popular sovereignty lead to problems in the territories like Kansas?
John Brown lead a raid that resulted in the murder of five proslavery settlers that sparked the violence of bleeding Kansas
Explanation:
On May 24 1856 John Brown lead a group of abolitionist rifle men in a revenge raid. Three days before proslavery forces had destroyed Lawerecville the capital of the of the abolitionist Kansas. The border ruffians destroyed the anti slavery printing presses, burned down the hotel that housed the pro abolitionist government.
During the night of May 24 John Brown and his followers murdered five proslavery settlers along Pottawatonia Creek. The raid on Laweranceville by proslavery forces had destroyed property but no had died. The murder by John Brown and his followers sparked the violence that consumed Kansas as a precursor to the Civil War.
John Brown hated slavery and felt that the ends justified the means. John Brown believed that slavery was so evil that those who benefited from slavery deserved to die.
After the murders on Pottawatonia Creek John Brown fled Kansas. Then John Brown organized a raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry Virginia. The goal was to put the 15,000 rifles stored at the arsenal into the hands of slaves so that the white slave owners could be killed. In John Brown's beliefs the black victims of slavery had the right to kill all slave owners.
John Brown zeal in fighting slavery resulted in murder and the violence of Bleeding Kansas.
