Chapter 11

Important People

recommended

that a federal arsenal be built at Harpers Ferry

George Washington

abolitionist, led the raid on Harpers Ferry

John Brown

abolitionist, John Brown’s father, involved in the underground

railroad

Owen Brown

abolitionist, John Brown’s son, involved in the fighting in Kansas, suffered a mental breakdown after the attack

on Pottawatomie Creek.

John Brown, Jr.

abolitionist, John Brown’s son, would have been hanged

except for the intervention of a Kentucky judge

Jason Brown

a Presbyterian minister and newspaper publisher, who had been killed by a proslavery mob in Alton,

Illinois,

Elijah Lovejoy

demanded that slaves be given the freedoms promised by the

Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.

William Lloyd

Garrison

Senator of Massachusetts publicly criticized the Missourians for their interference in

Kansas. criticized Senator Andrew P. Butler of South Carolina, was beat with

a cane on the floor of the Senate

Charles Sumner

Butler’s nephew, was enraged by the attack on his uncle. With his cane, he attacked Sumner on the floor of the Senate until the Massachusetts senator lay bleeding

at his feet.

Preston Brooks

name John Brown used while planning his attack on

Harpers Ferry.

Isaac Smith

one of John Brown’s followers, a black man, was able to

escape after he was captured by federal troops.

Osborn Anderso

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President at the time of John Brown’s raid, contacted Colonel Robert E. Lee and ordered him to take command of the forces at Harpers Ferry and put down the rebellion at any cost.

James Buchanan

He made a last-ditch effort to persuade Brown to

surrender, but Brown chose to fight.

J.E.B. Stuart

suggested that the struggle in Illinois was more than a mere struggle in support of black people. He claimed that it was an

example of how all United States citizens were slaves to southern mob

law.

Laurence Hickok

ordered to take command of the forces at Harpers Ferry and put down the rebellion at any cost.

Robert E. Lee

where John Brown and seven followers massacred five

proslavery settlers, including two teenagers. Four of the

bodies were viciously mutilated.

Pottawatomie Creek

where they burned homes and plundered the land. It marked a turning point in the struggle for

Kansas.

Osawatomie

location of the federal arsenal, site of John Brown’s raid.

Harpers Ferry