John Brown at Harpers Ferry separated the North and the South. Document I states that John Brown was trying to give guns to slaves so they could uprise against their owner and kill them. Because of John Brown the South was more fearful that the slaves would try and kill their owners to be free. Southerners began to attack groups of white anti-slavery people. Then the South thought that the North was planning slave uprisings everywhere. John Brown was eventually hung for treason. He was a martyr in the North but a terrorist in the South. John Brown was a cause of the Civil War because he caused distrust and more violence in the South.
