History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2277 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Radicals
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The idea
Charles Sumner of Massachusetts advocated school integration, Black male voting rights, and the disenfranchisement of many southern voters.
In practice
The same senator Preston Brooks had caned in eighteen fifty-six, now writing the terms of the peace.
Where people slip
Unit 14 covers the caning. Do not re-teach it here; the point is that the man beaten for a speech about Kansas is now setting policy.
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