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Requires citizens and officials in free states to assist in the capture and return of escaped enslaved people to their owners -
Created two territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty, which allowed residents to vote on whether to allow slavery in their territories. -
Violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery advocates who vied for political control in the newly forming state
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Sumner delivered a speech, "The Crime Against Kansas," condemning slavery and verbally attacking several pro-slavery politicians. Brooks then ambushed Sumner with a cane, striking him repeatedly. Spent three years recuperating and returned to the Senate in 1859. -
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