How did the "caning of charles sumner" illustrate tensions between the north and
south?

Explanation:

The caning of Charles Sumner detailed Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts arguing that what was done to Kansas (pro-slavery people illegally swept the polls and vowed to kill all abolitionists, followed by over 200 people killed in the violence that followed) was very bad as well as slavery. He singled out Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina, and his cousin, Preston S Brooks, beat Sumner with a cane until it broke on May 22, 1856. This showed how fiery and aggressive the North and South were to each other in the events leading to the Civil War, as they were literally willing to kill other members of Congress to get their points across. It is important to note that in most legislative sessions both before and after the event, violence was rare if there at all