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The Kansas-Nebraska Act.

It sounded very reasonable, but it had the effect of attracting terrorists across the state border, who intimidated voters and tried to claim that all the election results were rigged.

It ended up raising the temperature of the whole slavery debate - a curtain-raiser for the Civil War.

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