Transcript John Brown`s Raid

Objective: To examine the immediate causes of the U.S. Civil War.
John Brown’s Raid:
• In 1859, John Brown
and his followers seized
a federal arsenal in
Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
John Brown in August,
1859.
Interior view of the engine house at Harpers Ferry during
the siege.
View photos of eight members of Brown’s raiding party.
John Brown painting at Harper's Ferry
Engine house at Harpers Ferry.
Marines storm the engine house.
• Brown was caught and sentenced to death by hanging.
Brown as a wounded prisoner after his capture.
Brown being carried from court to prison.
Last Moments of
John Brown
(painting by Thomas
Hovenden)
The hanging of John Brown.
"Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my
blood further with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust
enactments, I say, let it be done."
--John Brown, statement at his sentencing on Nov. 2, 1859
Brown's grave in North Elba, New York
"[John Brown is] that
new saint, than whom
none purer or more brave
was ever led by love of
men into conflict and
death,--the new saint
awaiting his martyrdom,
and who, if he shall suffer,
will make the gallows
glorious like the cross."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson,
from his lecture
"Courage," delivered in
Boston on Nov. 8, 1859
Election of 1860:
Main Candidates
Abraham
Lincoln
(Republican)
John
Breckinridge
(Southern
Democrat)
Stephen
Douglas
(Northern
Democrat)
John Bell
(Constitutional
Union)
* Lincoln won the election.
Secession:
• In response to Lincoln’s victory, the southern states seceded
from the Union in 1861, forming the Confederate States of
America.
Original Confederate flag
Eventual Confederate flag
• Jefferson Davis was
named the president of
the Confederacy.
Civil War: Union v. Confederacy
Fort Sumter
• Fort Sumter,
South Carolina,
was important
because it
guarded
Charleston harbor
• Therefore, the
Confederates
attacked,
defeating the
Union soldiers.
* The Civil War had now begun!
Ruffin, Pvt. Edmund, Confederate soldier
who fired the first shot against Fort Sumter
Anderson, Maj. Robert, defender of
Fort Sumter
Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor
April 12 and 13, 1861
Fort Sumter, S.C., April 4, 1861, under the Confederate flag.