In 1859, in the wake of the Dred Scott decision, John Brown

In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to seize weapons and spark an uprising among enslaved people. This matches choice B, “tried to create a violent uprising of enslaved workers.” The Kansas relocation choices refer to efforts to influence settlement there, not Brown’s 1859 raid.

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