Which of these choices describes John Brown? Choose the best answer.

John Brown was a militant abolitionist who opposed the spread of slavery into Kansas. In 1856, he and his followers killed several proslavery settlers near Pottawatomie Creek, an event known as the Pottawatomie Massacre. He was not a proslavery Border Ruffian or a member of Congress who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

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