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shenderson6

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Why did Preston Brooks attack Charles Sumner?
 
  A) Sumner had accused Brooks's uncle of keeping a slave as his mistress and lover.
  B) Sumner had had an affair with one of Brooks's slaves.
  C) Sumner had physically attacked Brooks earlier that year.
  D) The two men had been fighting since they were children about white men's access to slave women.

Question 2

What was the main issue in the Dred Scott case?
 
  A) whether all slaves should be free or not
  B) whether a slave taken into free territory was free
  C) whether a slave woman could be legally raped by a white man
  D) whether the abolitionists could continue to use mass mailings as a major strategy



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B



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