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Course: AP®︎/College US History > Unit 5

Lesson 4: Sectional conflict: regional differences

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Sectional conflict: regional differences

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“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done.”

-Source: Last written words before Brown’s execution, 1859

A historian would most likely use this passage to illustrate which of the following?

(Choice A)
the growing willingness of abolitionists to resort to violence
(Choice B)
the influence of the Second Great Awakening on the abolitionist movement
(Choice C)
the massive carnage of the Battle of Antietam
(Choice D)
the response of pro-slavery politicians to the Dred Scott decision