may 22, 1856 - Caning of Charles Sumner
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Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner attacked fellow Senator Andrew Butler of South Carolina in a speech called "The Crime Against Kansas". Butler's nephew Preston Brooks beat Sumner with a cane so viciously that he was rendered unconscious and nearly blind. Both Brooks and Sumner became martyrs in their respective regions.
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The Impending Crisis: Immediate Causes of the Civil War
Oliver Blum
Becerra
AP US History 3rd Period
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