12. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 12: Sectional Politics and the Rise of the Republican Party

**Quiz for Document 12.3: Charles Sumner, The Crime against Kansas (1856)**

Quiz for Document 12.3: Charles Sumner, The Crime against Kansas (1856)

Document 12.3: Charles Sumner, The Crime against Kansas (1856)

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Question 12.7

1. In this dramatic speech to Congress, Charles Sumner accused South Carolina senator Andrew Butler of having a mistress. The alleged “mistress” Sumner describes is

slavery.

one of his female slaves.

fanaticism.

Senator Stephen Douglas’s wife.

Question 12.8

2. How does Charles Sumner respond to Butler’s accusation that Republicans are a “sectional” party?

He states that he is proud to be associated with the sectional interest that supports liberty rather than slavery.

He implies that one cannot be a sectional unless the issue at stake is religious in nature.

He responds that the real sectionalists are those proslavery forces who have invaded Kansas and violated the Constitution.

He asserts that Republicans are actually national and that the southern proslavery legislators are sectional.

Question 12.9

3. According to Sumner, those who oppose the usurpation of the Kansas government by proslavery forces are carrying on the legacy of

the British in the 1770s.

the Antifederalists in the 1780s.

the Glorious Revolution.

martyrs for human rights.

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