South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks
A) murdered John Brown before Brown could be tried for his actions at Harpers Ferry.
B) beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane.
C) defeated Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 Illinois gubernatorial race.
D) argued that slavery should be limited to the south.
E) led religious opposition to slavery in the south.
B
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