John Brown's Raid Dbq Analysis

The sectional divide between the North and South continued to grow dramatically in the years preceding the Civil War. Before the war, the North had continued to become more industrialized than the South. Northerners began to want ready-made shoes and clothing and that stemmed from the creation of factories during the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution came about in the 1820s when factories and clothing mills were created in New England and the use of factories grew from there. The divide between the North and South was evident when the industrialization of the North was compared to the very unindustrialized South. The industrialization in the North, however, left many unemployed while the South did not have as large of a problem with unemployment. With the things they could produce, factories became very popular and …show more content…
John Brown, a black man, planned to live in a barn in Maryland and then attack and capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia. However, it did not go as planned as he was supposed to alert all of the slaves in that area to join him in the raid to make his symbol more powerful. While the plan did not work out to the magnitude he had originally planned, John was successful in putting fear into the minds of southerners. They saw Brown’s ideals in the Republican party and attached what he had done to decide that a Republican president would be the death of the South. One of southerners worst fears was their slave rising up and rebelling against them. In this way, John Brown’s Raid symbolized what could happen if their fears came true. The raid also increased the divide between the Republicans and Democrats. The secession may not have ever been perceived without the raid at the forefront because the northern states did not allow slavery and the southern states did. This crucial issue was one of the main things that separated the North from the