The caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks...
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Charles Sumner. G.W. Jacobs. ISBN 9780722284407. Hoffer, Williamjames Hull (2010). The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the...
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Laurence M. Keitt (category Censured or reprimanded members of the United States House of Representatives)
Republican Senator Charles Sumner. During the attack, Keitt brandished a pistol and cane to prevent other senators from coming to Sumner's aid. The second...
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also featured short stories, occasionally including elements of horror fiction. Most of the cover art was painted by John Newton Howitt or Rafael de Soto...
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Southern chivalry (category Culture of the Southern United States)
other forms of extrajudicial violence, most notably the caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks, and contributed to the militarization of the South by...
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Preston Brooks (category Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina)
abolitionist and Republican Senator Charles Sumner, whom he beat nearly to death; Brooks beat Sumner with a cane on the floor of the United States Senate in retaliation...
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Fire-Eaters (category Secession crisis of 1860–61)
for propaganda, among them "Bleeding Kansas" and the caning of Charles Sumner, to accuse the North of trying to abolish slavery immediately. Using effective...
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Argumentum ad baculum (redirect from Threat of force)
describe the 1856 caning of Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Senator, by one of his pro-slavery opponents, Preston Brooks, on the floor of the United States...
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as a weapon in his attack on Senator Charles Sumner. In the 1860s, gutta-percha was used to reinforce the soles of football players' boots before it was...
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Bleeding Kansas (category Political history of the United States)
August 14, 2019. Williamjames Hull Hoffer, The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War (2010) "3 Jun 1856, Page 2 - the...
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suffering at the hands of his political opponents Andrew Butler and Preston Brooks, now known as the Caning of Charles Sumner, and secondly because he...
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Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War (2010) p. 62 William E. Gienapp, "The Crime Against Sumner: The Caning of...
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American Civil War (redirect from Military history of the Confederate States)
the power of the Government of the United States ceased."; Ulysses S. Grant Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. Volume 2. [2] New York: Charles L. Webster...
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The Tariff of 1828 was a very high protective tariff that became law in the United States in May 1828. It was a bill designed to fail in Congress because...
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ISBN 9780807110065. Hoffer, Williamjames Hull (2010). The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War. Johns Hopkins University Press...
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presidential candidate. The defection of many Northern Know-Nothings, combined with the caning of Charles Sumner and other events that stoked sectional...
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Wilmot Proviso (category Legal history of the United States)
one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. Congressman David Wilmot of Pennsylvania first introduced the proviso in the House of Representatives...
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Crittenden Compromise (category Secession crisis of 1860–61)
Crittenden (Constitutional Unionist of Kentucky) on December 18, 1860. It aimed to resolve the secession crisis of 1860–1861 that eventually led to the...
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Assault (section Prevention of crime)
An assault is the illegal act of causing physical harm or unwanted physical contact to another person, or, in some legal definitions, the threat or attempt...
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Luanda. May 21 – Sacking of Lawrence: Lawrence, Kansas, is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces. May 22 – Caning of Charles Sumner: United States Congressman...
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Canterbury Charles Richard Sumner, bishop George Sumner, bishop Heywood Sumner, artist "U.S. Senate: The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner". www.senate...
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1860 United States presidential election (redirect from United States Presidential election of 1860)
Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin won a national popular plurality, a popular...
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eclipsed by that of Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857. La Amistad was traveling along the coast of Cuba on her way to a port for re-sale of the slaves. The...
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their pursuit of restoring the Union. Ambler, Charles, Francis H. Pierpont: Union War Governor of Virginia and Father of West Virginia, Univ. of North Carolina...
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and Wellington, Ohio Escape of Charles Nalle, November 1860, Troy, New York Cobb, James C. (September 18, 2015). "One of American History's Worst Laws...
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Civil War: The Compromise of 1850 and How It Changed the Course of American History (2003) [ISBN missing] Wiltse, Charles M. John C. Calhoun, Sectionalist...
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Richard L. Lyons, House Censures Rep. Wilson of California, Washington Post (June 11, 1980). Charles R. Babcock, House Votes Reprimands for Roybal,...
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Mexican–American War (redirect from War of American Aggression)
Expeditions of John Charles Fremont: The Bear Flag Revolt and the Court-Martial. U of Illinois Press, 1973. Donald Fithian Stevens, Origins of Instability...
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Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (redirect from Virginia Resolutions of 1798)
"Principles of '98". Adherents argued that the states could judge the constitutionality of federal government laws and decrees. The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798...
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Jefferson Literary and Debating Society (category University of Virginia)
the society expressed its approval of the caning of Charles Sumner by sending Preston Brooks a new gold-headed cane to replace his broken one. Today, Room...
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