Name ___________________________________________ Chapter 16-3/4: JOHN BROWN NOTES (pt. 1 - 1:33 – 20:35) (pt. 2 - 20: 36: – 43:12)
1. I, John Brown, am now quite
certain the crimes of this guilty
land will not be purged away but
by blood.
2. A. How do the historians describe John Brown
6. Why is slavery “more than just working for free”?
physically?
B. How do they describe his personality?
What is the message of
John Brown’s words above?
7. What did John Brown see when he looked at slavery?
3. When/Where did slavery start in America?
4. How was John Brown like many other whites in the U.S.
8. What was Brown’s childhood like? (What did his father teach him?)
at the time?
5. How did white slave owners describe life on the
Southern plantations?
10. What does Brown
dedicate his life to?
11. Why did Brown constantly move with his
9. When/Where did Brown first see slavery for himself? (What did he
see?)
13. Which famous ex-slave, abolitionist inspires Brown?
family from place to place?
14. A. Who did Brown give a copy of Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin to?
B. How does Brown describe his love of the book?
12. How did Brown fight the 1850 Fugitive Slave 15. Why does Brown rush to Kansas?
17. Who are Border
Ruffians?
18. Why do Border Ruffians
hate the town of Lawrence,
Kansas?
Law?
16. A. What does Brown bring to
Kansas?
B. Why does he do this?
19. After Lawrence, KS is attacked, Brown 20. On May 24th, Brown & seven of his men call themselves,
hears about “Bleeding Sumner”… how does
“The A _ _ _ of the N _ _ _ _”.
Brown react after news of these two
incidents reach him?
21. What do John Brown & his men do once they break into the pro-slavery men’s
cabin on Pottawattamie Creek?
1. What is John Brown’s “Principle Object”?
4. Why did John Brown choose to raid
6. When John Brown is ready to attack Harpers Ferry,
Harpers Ferry? (2 reasons besides to
he moves into a
capture weapons)
2. John Brown is so bent on revolution, he even writes a
F _ _ _ H _ _ _ _ owned by the
Kennedy family. By this point John Brown has grown a
full length
C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, which will help guide the
B _ _ _ _ so he would not be recognized
from the fighting in
new government he is seeking to create.
K _ _ _ _ _.
7. What weapon does John Brown order for slaves (not
used to firearms)?
3. In which state is Harpers Ferry located?
8. Why were slaves not able to handle firearms?
5. Who was John Cook?
9. Why does John Brown bring his daughter and
10. How many followers does John Brown have? (How 11. Shortly before midnight on October 16, John
daughter in-law to the Kennedy farmhouse?
many are African-American?)
13. Who is Haywood Sheppard?
successfully; what happens next, which Brown did not
anticipate?
the Civil War?
22. How did John Brown predict
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
& his men retreat to?
. “Brown is a new saint awaiting
his martyrdom, who if he shall
suffer will make the gallows
glorious like the cross.”
famous relative…who is it?
“I believe to interfere as I have done
on behalf of God’s despised poor is
not wrong, but right. Now, if it is
deemed necessary that I should
mingle my blood further with the
blood of my children and the blood
of millions in this slave country
whose rights are disregarded by
wicked, cruel and unjust
enactments, I say let it be done.”
16. After his plan takes a turn for the worse, where do Brown
Brown’s trial & fierce words?
14. One of Brown’s hostages has a
21. How does the South react to
trial, he is laying down – WHY?
20. When Brown is brought to
is completely surrounded; what
does Brown do next?
19. Brown’s sons are dying, & he
M _ _ _ _ _ __ led by
R _ _ _ _ _ E. L _ _.
the
18. President Buchanan, calls in
men to die? (What happened to
his body?)
showing the Kennedy farmhouse’s location. (PAUSE @ 28:39)
17. Who is the 1st of Brown’s
15. The first part of John Brown’s plan is executed
. “John Brown has loosened the
roots of the slave system. It
does not live, it only breathes
hereafter.” - Wendell Phillips
12. Draw the picture, which is paused on the screen,
Brown decides …