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How did john Browns raid affect the civil war ?

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Brown's raid helped make any further accommodation between North and South nearly impossible and thus became an important impetus of the Civil War.
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Because he led a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Virginia in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery
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