dec 2, 1859 - John Brown was hung
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Many people opposed the brutallty of John Brown and the Pottawatomie Massacre. Three years later, Brown left Kansas to begin a slave uprising at the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He was caught and hanged as a traitor to the United States.
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Bleeding Kansas and Civil War
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