8Th Grade Social Studies Lesson 6

8th Grade Social Studies Lesson 6

Students will be reading an article about the Sumner Brooks Affair. They will then take a 10 question reading comprehension quiz over the article.(8.1.24)

During this lesson students will demonstrate their mastery of the following learning targets; ● Identify the causes and effects of events leading to the Civil War.(Sumner Brooks Affair)

During the lesson students will know they have mastered those learning targets because they are able to show they have fulfilled the following Success Criteria;

● Identify the causes and effects of events leading to the Civil War.(Sumner Brooks Affair) ○ I can identify how the Sumner Brooks Affair led to the Civil War

Summary: Students will read an article on the Sumner Brooks Affair and answer 10 questions about the text

Directions: If this task involves the submission of an assignment or a quiz, please link to the assignment/quick in the directions 1. Step 1 - Read the following article https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kLwhgpYwZtC-OW13uOF5KuFdKlBxRWqn/view?usp=sh aring 2. Step 2 - Complete the following quiz over the Sumner Brooks Affair https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-XRKVNanH-PWnCd-7X1SeVpJk59K4meU

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Date(s): May 22, 1856 (/search/dates/18560522)

Location(s): Washington City, District of Columbia (/ps/view/1275)

Tag(s): Kansas-Nebraska Act (/tags/view/249), Abolitionism (/tags/view/193), Sumner (/tags/view/194), Brooks (/tags/view/195), Violence (/tags/view/244)

Course: “The Abolitionists and American Society,” (/courses/view/23) University of Richmond (/schools/view/11)

Rating: 4.43 (161 votes)

Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner sat as his desk in the nearly empty Chamber of the United States Senate on May 22, 1856. He had recently given a speech called “The Crime Against Kansas” on abolishing slavery in the United States. The speech described atrocities occurring in Kansas at the time. There pro-slavery border ruans from Missouri crossed into Kansas and attacked anti-slavery settlers. Senator Sumner specically mentioned Senator Andrew Butler, of South Carolina in the speech because of his involvement with the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Butler’s nephew, Congressman Preston Brooks, who had taken the speech particularly personally, entered the Senate Chamber. He proceeded to attack Senator Sumner with a walking stick. Brooks, who was accompanied at the time by Congressman Laurence Keitt of South Carolina and Congressman Henry Edmundson of Virginia, assaulted Sumner “with a considerable amount of violence." Sumner was struck with “numerous blows on and about the head with a walking stick which cut his head." Brooks hit Sumner so hard with the cane that part of the cane shattered. When other senators attempted to intervene and assist Senator Sumner, they were blocked by Congressman Keitt, who was wielding a pistol and shouting.

The attack was brutal, and Senator Sumner did not make another public appearance after the attack until November 5, 1856. Sumner did not return to the Senate for three years, but was repeatedly reelected by the Massachusetts General Court. Despite the extreme violence involved / in the attack, an investigation by the United States Congress determined that Brooks did not intend to kill Sumner, but simply aimed to “punish him."

The 1856 attack shed light on the amount of passion in the debate about slavery n the United States during the 1850s. It was common for physical altercations to occur on the frontier in the Kansas area between anti-slavery and pro-slavery settlers, but a physical exchange in the Senate Chamber did not happen often. The fact that such a violent attack was not regarded as much more than retribution for something said in a speech by Senator Sumner exemplied how the conict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery partisans was increasingly escalating into violence during the 1850s. Northerners and Southerners obviously reacted to the incident dierently. Many Southerners viewed Brooks’s ations as manly and honorable because he was standing up not just for his family, but also his state, section, and slavery. However, in the North physicality and violence were increasingly at odds with ideals of manhood among the middle classes, and many northerners to viewed the caning of Sumner by Brooks as a barbaric assault, not just on Sumner himself, but on the fabric of American democracy. Speeches given at the time were taken personally, especially when the speeches invoked the names of relatives. This beating demonstrated the passion sparked by the debate over slavery, which eventually contributed to the start of the Civil Wa r.

(4632|1239599441)"The Assault on Mr. Sumner: Report of the House Committee; Expulsion of Mr. Brooks Demande," New York Daily Times, June 4, 1856. (4632|1239599542)Manisha Sinha, "The Caning of Charles Sumner: Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the Age of the Civil Wa r (/search/citation/44754)," Journal of the Early Republic 23 (2003): 233-262.

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Question 1 1 pts

Charles Sumner was famous for giving which speech?

Common Sense

Gettysburg Address

The Crime Against Kansas

Question 2 1 pts

What is the basic idea behind Sumner's Crime Against Kansas speech?

Slavery and violence in Kansas is wrong.

All of the violence in Kansas should be blamed on the North.

Preventing slavery in Kansas is wrong.

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Question 3 1 pts

Which is true about the border ruffians from Missouri?

They attacked anti - slavery settlers in Kansas.

They prevented settlers from crossing into Kansas to vote illegally.

They were volunteer police who came to Kansas to prevent and stop violence.

Question 4 1 pts

Why did Preston Brooks become upset with Charles Sumner in May of 1856?

Sumner insulted the South and Brooks' famil

Sumner cheated Brooks out of a Senate seat.

Sumner had an affair with Brooks' wife.

Question 5 1 pts

What role did Congressman Laurence Keitt play in the conflict between Sumner and Brooks?

Keitt was the reporter who photographed the story.

Keitt went with Brooks to assault Sumner.

Keitt was Sumner's bodyguard.

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What happened to Sumner after he was attacked by Brooks?

He died.

He was not able to return to work for several months.

He spent the rest of his life in bed and was never able to walk again.

Question 7 1 pts

What did the Attack on Sumner prove to the nation?

It proved to Sumner that he should not insult the South again.

It proved that the North and South needed to compromise.

It proved how passionate the slavery debate had become.

Question 8 1 pts

Based on the passage about how the debate over slavery was escalating into violence. What is the best definition for escalating?

going away.

increasing rapidly

decreasing rapidly

Question 9 1 pts

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How did many in the South view Brooks' attack on Sumner?

Many viewed it as wrong and barbarous.

Most people really paid no attention.

Many viewed it as a noble or right thing to do.

Question 10 1 pts

How did many in the North view Brooks' attack on Sumner?

Many viewed it as a noble or right thing to do.

many viewed it as a barbarous thing to do.

Most paid no attention to the whole issue.

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