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.
The fifteenth Amendment covers
the right to vote regardless of color. It did not allow states from denying any
citizen the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition
as a slave. The African American men granted the right to vote.
The Ganges River is the body of water that it flows in.
The Kansas Nebraska Act affected the border states because the Kansas Nebraska Act was set in motion a plan that was supposed to decide the Kansas question through a peaceful democratic process.
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During the 1790s, France believed that the United States was losing its neutrality because of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
