Preston Brooks was a Southern Congressman and a passionate advocate of Southern Rights. Charles Sumner was an ardent abolitionist who delivered an impassioned speech against the authors of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1856. He also ridiculed the speech impediment of one of the authors, Andrew Butler. Preston Brooks got angry because he was the nephew of Andrew Butler. Together with a friend, Brooks approached Sumner as the latter worked at his desk and started caning Sumner. Sumner collapsed in the aisle and Preston Brooks continued caning him until his cane broke. Southerners sent canes to Preston Brooks to replace the one he broke.
Islam spread through military conquest, trade, pilgrimage, and missionaries.
Its true ! Because what I'm thinking is its the basis of Democracy .
It was driven by skepticism about traditional ideas and beliefs
It’s also affected North America by giving an idea to change the colonies to its own nation.
Gave the ideas of (freedom of speech, equality, freedom)
<span>After the oil boom that happened in Pennsylvania during
1859. 3 other states started to discovered vast oil reserved in their country.
=> 2 of these countries are California and Texas.
=> For Texas, it was a great opportunity to be able to discover vast oil
reserves for their country because it helped a lot with their economic growth.
During 1940, Texas was already considered as the one of the biggest oil producing
state.
Later they were joined by Kansas, Oklahoma and Illinois.
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