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Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas was a leading Democrat in the US. He sought to solve the slavery issue by having the citizens of a US Territory, vote on the slavery issue. Then when the Territory applied for statehood, the slavery issue would have already been decided.This was a sane measure, however, there was a lack of Law and Order in Kansas at the time of 1854.

The result was chaos and murder in Kansas.

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