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By allowing the people of each new state to vote on whether it would be a slave-state or free soil.

That sounded reasonable enough. But if only one state was voting at a time, that one state would attract every terrorist from both sides to try to influence the vote.

That's what happened in Kansas - and the result was called 'Bleeding Kansas'.

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