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  • Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with a metal tipped cane. Senator Sumner was giving a 2 day speech on the Senate floor, he made fun of Brook’s relative who suffered from a stroke. He than stated slavery is like prostitution.
  • The significance of this event is how divided the nation is. You have two white senators attacking one another over an issue where 50% of the country agrees with and the other does not. This is not a good look on how two government employees and leaders of America.
  • The United States supreme court condoned slavery during the Dred Scott Decision. They denied citizenship to Blacks in America, despite them having lived in a free territory. The decision also argued that blacks could not sue in court at all.
  • The decision further divided the North and South, as well as angering abolitionists even more. Abolitionists and enslaved peoples were fed up with their unfair treatment. Since the Supreme Court was the highest court in the land, the Dred Scott Decision was the end all be all decision and it pushed people over the edge.
  • John Brown was a white abolitionist who gave up his own life to try to put an end to slavery. He led a little over 50 men to raid an arsenal of weapons at Harpers Ferry. They ended up getting caught and John Brown and the others were executed.
  • This event is significant because it gave enslaved black people a hero in a white man. It gave hope that slavery could end soon if white people like John Brown could help end slavery. Other famous abolitionists took notice of this like Frederick Douglass stating he did not fail, since the country had decided it was time for change.
  • 4 candidates ran in this election. Brenkridge and Douglas who were democrats who supported popular sovereignty. Lincoln, a Republican who prohibits slavery in territories and ultimately ends up winning. Finally Bell of the Constitutional Union, who wanted to avoid the slavery issue and keep the country united. After Lincoln won, the Southern states succeeded from the country.
  • The significance of this election is the rise of the Civil War. This was the breaking point of the South because they actually left being a part of this country and divided the nation. This election was also interesting because 2 candidates were democrats and the other two were republican and constitutional union. This shows how there are so many different views on the country and so many people have different views on slavery.
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