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Read about how the concept of popular sovereignty expressed in the Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in political intrigue and murder in Kansas and the caning of a U.S. Senator in the Senate chamber.
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border ruffians, free soilers, sectional conflict, "bleeding kansas", "bleeding kansas" and "bleeding sumner", digital history, free state convention, new england emigrant aid company, president franklin pierce, preston brooks, senator charles sumner, topeka constitution, antislavery northerners, caning of senator sumner, proslavery southerners, sack of lawrence, kansas
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