Causes of the Civil War: Expanding and Preserving the Union (Building Fluency Through Reader's Theater)

Abolitionist John Brown raises a small army of men in the hopes of starting a slave revolt and leads his men to Harper's Ferry to take over the United States arsenal. Colonel Robert E. Lee and Lieutenant Jeb Stuart are sent by President Buchanan to put down the uprising. In the end, John Brown is captured, tried, and convicted of treason.