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It established if the states would come into the union free or slave states through voters voting on the issue. The whole problem with it was people crossed state lines for or against slavery to swing the votes. John Brown and his sons went into Lawrence, Kansas and murdered people who were for slavery. A newspaper published a headline calling it "Bloody Kansas ".

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