Chapter 12

Quiz for Document 12-4: Charles Sumner, The Crime of Kansas (1856)

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Question 1

After delivering the speech of 1856, Charles Sumner was savagely beaten on the floor of the U.S. Senate, sustaining injuries that incapacitated him for years. How do Sumner’s speech and the response to it reflect the broader historical context of the 1850s?A. They reflect the deep divisions and sectional conflict that developed over the slavery extension issue.
B. They reflect the violence of the Civil War.
C. They reflect the debate over the cause of the U.S.-Mexico War.
D. They reflect the growing influence of the abolitionist movement.

Question 2

Sumner puts his description of South Carolina Senator Butler’s “chivalrous” support for slavery in terms that are highlyA. poetic.
B. political.
C. sexualized.
D. violent.

Question 3

The issue to which Sumner refers when he uses the term “usurpation in Kansas” wasA. abolitionist forces gaining control of Kansas.
B. Kansas being denied statehood.
C. proslavery Missourians voting in Kansas.
D. enslaved people being sold in Kansas.