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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increased sectional tension because it?
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It allowed the people of each new state to vote whether to be slave or free.
The elections were plagued by violence and accusations of vote-rigging. The result was to raise the temperature of the debate, so that only the extremists could be heard.
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Would the sound be higher or lower if both tension and length were increased?
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What happens to the frequency of the wave as the tension on the wire is increased?
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What led to the increased racial tension in 1915?
the release of the film the birth of a nation.
How does increasing the duration of the rest period affected muscle tension?
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