Caning of Charles Sumner

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The Caning of Charles Sumner was a brutal 1856 attack by pro-slavery Congressman Preston Brooks on anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the U.S. Senate, symbolizing the extreme sectional tensions that led to the American Civil War.


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Bleeding Kansas crisis
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