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Which event prompted John Browns attack on the Pottawatomie Creek settlement?

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Brown was outraged by both the violence of pro-slavery forces and by what he saw as a weak and cowardly response by the anti-slavery partisans and the Free State settlers, whom he described as "cowards, or worse.

John Brown sought revenge for the Sack of Lawrence by murdering five proslavery men near the banks of the Pottawatomie Creek.

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Answer: John Brown exacted vengeance for the Sack of Lawrence by assassinating five anti-slavery individuals along the Pottawatomie Creek. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.Explanation:

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