What Does the Sumner-Brooks Incident Tell Us About the United

question 12

Multiple Choice

What does the Sumner-Brooks incident tell us about the United States in 1856?

• A) Violence would not go unpunished in Congress.
• B) The South was beginning to turn against slavery.
• C) The North valued the idea of free labor over the Fugitive Slave Act.
• D) Slavery was becoming such a divisive issue that members of Congress, where all issues should be debated peacefully, were engaging in physical violence.

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