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Why did John Brown lead the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 18592

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to protest the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act
to inspire Southern slaveholders to resist abolitionists
to protest the use of militia to defend fugitive slave hunters
to inspire an armed uprising of enslaved African Americans

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Answer:was an 1859 effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

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