The caning of charles sumner by preston brooks: a. was denounced by most southerners as barbaric. b. occurred because sumner praised the attack on lawrence, kansas. c. was unusual because both men were proslavery democrats. d. showed the extreme violence of which northern abolitionists were capable. e. actually the new republican party.

The correct answer is E. The caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks actually helped the new Republican Party.

Explanation:

Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was elected to integrate the United States Senate in 1851 by the Free Soil Party, which he had helped found to oppose the expansion of slavery in the newly acquired territories of the United States. Sumner was a strong speaker who campaigned tirelessly for the abolition of slavery. In May 1856, he gained great notoriety due to the aggression suffered in the Senate at the hands of Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina. Sumner had criticized Brooks' cousin, Senator Andrew P. Butler of South Carolina, for the actions taken by the South to extend slavery in the territory of Kansas. It took Sumner years to recover from the beating he received from Brooks. This attack left the Democratic Party as an intolerant and violent group, encouraging the support of much of society to the recently created Republican Party.

He continued in the Senate after the Civil War. During the time of reconstruction, he pronounced himself in favor of the application of a hard policy towards the South and campaigned for the full equality and civil rights of emancipated slaves to be established.

as general terms,  indian territory,  the indian territories, or  indian country  describe an evolving land area set aside by the  united states government  for the relocation of  native americans  who held  aboriginal title  to their land. in general, the tribes ceded land they occupied in exchange for  land grants  in 1803. the concept of an indian territory was an outcome of the 18th- and 19th-century policy of  indian removal. after the  civil war(1861–1865), the policy of the government was one of  assimilation.

from thales, who is often considered the first western philosopher, to the stoics and skeptics, ancient greek philosophy opened the doors to a particular way of thinking that provided the roots for the western intellectual tradition. here, there is often an explicit preference for the life of reason and rational thought. we find proto-scientific explanations of the natural world in the milesian thinkers, and we hear democritus posit atoms—indivisible and invisible units—as the basic stuff of all matter. with socrates comes a sustained inquiry into ethical matters—an orientation towards human living and the best life for human beings. with plato comes one of the most creative and flexible ways of doing philosophy, which some have since attempted to imitate by writing philosophical dialogues covering topics still of interest today in ethics, political thought, metaphysics, and epistemology. plato’s student, aristotle, was one of the most prolific of ancient authors. he wrote treatises on each of these topics, as well as on the investigation of the natural world, including the composition of animals. the hellenists—epicurus, the cynics, the stoics, and the skeptics—developed schools or movements devoted to distinct philosophical lifestyles, each with reason at its foundation.

with this preference for reason came a critique of traditional ways of living, believing, and thinking, which sometimes caused political trouble for the philosophers themselves. xenophanes directly challenged the traditional anthropomorphic depiction of the gods, and socrates was put to death for allegedly inventing new gods and not believing in the gods mandated by the city of athens. after the fall of alexander the great, and because of aristotle’s ties with alexander and his court, aristotle escaped the same fate as socrates by fleeing athens. epicurus, like xenophanes, claimed that the mass of people is impious, since the people conceive of the gods as little more than superhumans, even though human characteristics cannot appropriately be ascribed to the gods. in short, not only did ancient greek philosophy pave the way for the western intellectual tradition, including modern science, but it also shook cultural foundations in its own time.