Have you ever seen a terrorist attack on the news, well did you know that terrorist attacks happened back then too? In the eighteen hundreds John Brown was a terrorist. Everyone knows that he killed five people, but some historians think that he killed five people because of his insanity but, others disagree. John Brown was a terrorist for three reasons: he killed people, he was insane, and he wanted to take over an armory. The first reason John Brown was a terrorist is that he killed people. John Brown needed Robert E. Lee’s men to take out John Brown’s men; John Brown used guerrilla warfare, and John Brown killed five people. The second reason John Brown was a terrorist is that he was insane. A lot of John Brown’s family members