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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ostend Manifesto (category History of United States expansionism)
of the United States. New York: Henry Holt and Company. OCLC 1310959. Brown, Charles Henry (1980). Agents of Manifest Destiny: The Lives and Times of...
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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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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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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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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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Legislative violence (section House of Representatives)
Encyclopedia of Arkansas". encyclopediaofarkansas.net. Retrieved 19 February 2015. Senate Historical Office. "The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner". Historical...
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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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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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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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Truth Harriet Tubman Charles Augustus Wheaton Colonial America Spanish Florida Fort Mose British Florida Negro Fort United States List of Freedmen's towns...
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Kansas–Nebraska Act (redirect from Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854)
Seward, of New York, and Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, led the opposition. The New-York Tribune wrote on March 2: The unanimous sentiment of the North...
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Franklin Pierce (redirect from 14th President of the United States of America)
done—Republicans used "Bleeding Kansas" and "Bleeding Sumner" (the brutal caning of Charles Sumner by South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks in the...
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