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Why did John brown seize the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry?

A) to begin a slave rebellion in Virginia

B) to destroy the ammunition used by the North

C) to get ammunition for fighting in Kansas

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User Seaders
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He had hoped to steal enough weapons to arm a slave uprising in Virginia.
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