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Most people, North and South, were hoping that a future war could be avoided by this sensible arrangement of letting the local population of each new state vote whether to be slave or free. ('Popular Sovereignty')

But the result was a miniature Civil War in Kansas, with terrorists from outside the state intimidating voters and declaring every election result to be a fraud.

It was the tragic curtain-raiser for the real Civil War.

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