The Caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks

question 137

Multiple Choice

The caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks

• A) showed the extreme violence of which northern abolitionists were capable.
• B) actually helped the new Republican Party.
• C) was denounced by most southerners as barbaric.
• D) occurred because Sumner praised the attack on Lawrence, Kansas.
• E) was unusual because both men were proslavery Democrats.

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