With his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown hoped to
A) outrage northern abolitionists.
B) provoke a slave insurrection.
C) free Congress to accept the Lecompton Constitution.
D) force the North and South to negotiate a compromise on the slavery question.
B
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A. They disguised themselves as servants. B. They were escorted by military police. C. They were given freedom to pass by sympathetic revolutionaries. D. They were escorted by clergymen.
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