John Brown

According to the timeline, John Brown's family opposed slavery because of their:
1. Political views.
2. Religion.
3. Occupations.
4. Personal experiences.
Brown's views on slavery were affected in his youth by his experiences with:
1. A famine in Ohio.
2. Violence in Connecticut.
3. A slave boy in Michigan.
4. Poverty in New York.
Brown's economic ventures could generally be considered:
1. Successes.
2. Failures.
3. Neither successes nor failures.
4. Impossible to tell.
In 1837, Brown vowed to end slavery while speaking at the memorial service of Elijah Lovejoy, whose occupation was:
1. Farmer.
2. Politician.
3. Newspaper editor.
4. Policeman.
Brown followed his ons to which state that was in a crisis over slavery?
1. Missouri.
2. Kansas.
3. Oklahoma.
4. Texas.
Brown is famous for his actions at Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas, where he:
1. Engaged in a boycott.
2. Protested the local government.
3. Defended Native Americans.
4. Murdered five people.
Brown's action in Kansas were aided by the "Secret Six" from:
1. Boston.
2. Philadelphia.
3. New York City.
4. Washington, DC.
In a particularly devoted show of his anti-slavery views, Brown freed eleven slaves from Missouri and took them to:
1. Massachusetts.
2. Ohio.
3. Canada.
4. Michigan.
John Brown was almost joined in his raid on Harper's Ferry by which prominent abolitonist?
1. Frederick Douglass.
2. Harriet Tubman.
3. Abraham Lincoln.
4. Sojourner Truth.
Brown met with African Americans in Canada in 1858 to present what?
1. Weapons.
2. An abolitionist award.
3. A Provisional Constitution.
4. A play he wrote about slavery.

John Brown

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