On may 22, 1856, south carolina congressman preston brooks attacked massachusetts senator charles sumner on the senate floor in response to a speech entitled "the crime against kansas" that senator sumner had given days earlier. what was sumner's argument in his speech?

He spoke out against the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Explanation:

In his speech "The Crime Against Kansas," Senator Charles Sumner spoke out against the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This act was very controversial, and it had created the situation known nowadays as "Bleeding Kansas." The senator had openly opposed slavery, condemned all those who supported it, and talked badly about Andrew Butler, a member of the Senate from South Carolina.

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explanation: we can only guess at how our actions may be perceived in the future. doing something really big like killing lots of people, saving lots of people, affecting the lives of lots of people is a sure fire way of being remembered in historical records. we can also make a difference in the history records by being a small influence on something bigger, whether that is as a civil servant, scientist or artist.

of course you could argue that we all affect history just as tiny cogs in a   bigger machine.

if you mean how do people influence our opinions of things which have already happened, then simply by writing a book which looks at things form a different perspective and trying to convince people that this perspective is more accurate or truthful. people do it all the time i.e. richard the third was a terrible or was he? plenty would disagree, it's just that their views aren't the most widely known.n: