Question

What was the result of preston brooks's caning of massachusetts senator charles sumner in 1856?

Answer 1

Further inflamed sectional passions over the institution of slavery and its future in the Republic.

Brooks, a Democrat, was an intense supporter of servitude and states' rights. He is essentially associated with his May 22, 1856, ambush upon abolitionist and Republican Senator Charles Sumner; Brooks beat Sumner with a stick on the floor of the United States Senate in striking back for an abolitionist subjugation discourse in which Sumner verbally assaulted Brooks' second cousin.