Although the raid failed, it inflamed sectional tensions and raised the stakes for the 1860 presidential election. Brown's raid helped make any further accommodation between North and South nearly impossible and thus became an important impetus of the Civil War.
Answer: The United States unfairly helped in overthrowing Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, the second democratically elected President of Guatemala in 1954 because they suspected him of being a communist sympathizer.
