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Originally Posted by pikesome
Actually the problem was that the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the populace to vote on which to enter the union as. Needless to say besides the home-grown wack jobs, wack jobs on both sides of the question flooded in to "rig" the vote. Take the "true believers" from both sides, send them to a place without well established law enforcement and watch the sparks fly.
You're version of the story is just a bit off.
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it was supposed to be a compromise, only the vote didn't go the way it needed to for the compromise to really be a compromise, right?