Brown helps cause the civil war
John Brown is commonly known to be one of the leading causes of the event oftenly known as Bleeding Kansas. Although he is also one of the reasons there was so much tension built up between the free and slave states. He is most well known for having murdered a pro-slavery family in Kansas with him and his two sons. Although he took part I. These actions he was also a leader in the abolition movement to get rid of slavery. He lead men to fight for freedom in Kansas through armed insurrection. He was also known to be a terrorist amongst many groups of people in the United States.
He was the leader of a group of his followers and some slaves he had freed to try and take the federal armory located in harpers ferry. This is where he is thought to be a terrorist because he was attacking men who were in no way connected to slavery. This would cause tension amongst the people because the southerners saw it as needing to be even more horrible to the slaves to prevent that from happening. Through this attempt he would also get many of his followers killed and captured by federal forces and then later hung for treason. This was a complete drawback to what politicians were trying to settle things peacefully.
The Kansas Nebraska act was the main reason for Browns actions and the worsening tension between slave and free states. The reason why is because with popular sovereignty they worried that one side would gain an advantage in numbers whether it be slave or free. This act was also good thing except for the fact that the voting was corrupt and fighting ensued for weather or not it would be a slave or free state. This would lead others such as brown to commit horrible acts of violence apon each other such as murder. He would later be seen as a complete nut job but at least what brown was fighting for was a just cause even though It helped lead to the bloodiest act of violence on American soil, The Civil War.
