Further inflamed sectional passions over the
institution of slavery and its future in the Republic.
Brooks, a <span>Democrat<span>, 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.</span></span>
<em>The Enlightenment</em>, also known as the Age of Enlightenment, was an intellectual a cultural movement occurred in Europe and North America in the eighteenth century was. It contributed to the cultural and political change, drew upon new methods of sociability, and helped forge new ways of thinking that shaped the next two centuries. In such Enlightenment, a large number of men and women participated at a variety of levels, one of the outstanding participants in this movement was Voltaire, whose real name was <em>Francois-Marie Arouet.
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Voltaire was a French thinker famous for his plays and poetry as well as Political, Religious and Philosophical Writings. He worked to defend Civil Liberties. He also thought that the rich were favored by the political situation and that the poor were too ignorant to know any different. In addition, Voltaire was not a fan of the Bible and was vigorously against the Catholic Church. In contrast, he was Christian and thought that everyone had a right to religious freedom.
In Voltaire’s opinion, the church had no place in politics. <em>Such views on religion reflected on the separation of church and state, as well as the freedom of religion during the enlightenment.
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They were willing to give up the area because they were going to then invaded the rest of their property
The rebellion affirmed the need for a stronger federal government, and eventually led to the creation and ratification of the US Constitution and The Bill of Rights
