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may 9, 1856 - Bleeding Sumner

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Tensions of slavery reached the Capitol building, and Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner was beat by South Carolina's senator Andrew Butler. This caused sectionalism because it again was a fight between slavery and anti-slavery.

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Antebellum America and Sectionalism

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may 9, 1856
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~ 170 years ago

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