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The new settlers were known as the free soilers. Like the free soil party founded in 1848, free soilers worked to end slavery in the territories.

The free soil party condemned the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Kansas Nebraska Act let to "Bleeding Kansas" a mini civil war that erupted in Kansas in 1856. Many Northerners and Southerners went to Kansas in 1854. Determined to convert the future state to their view on slavery. To ensure that their respective side would win both Southerners and Northerners. Including Ohioans like John Brown and Henry Ward Beecher, advocated the use of violence.

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