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oct 16, 1859 - John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

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Led to disunion by: violent attempt to provoke slave revolt; set precedence for using violence to express anger about this issue; Brown was viewed as a martyr by the North after he died

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oct 16, 1859
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~ 166 years ago