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sumner brooks incident
preston brooks was beaten with a cane by Charles sumner -
mexican american war
the war fought between the US and Mexico (1846--48), through which the US acquired the present-day southwest -
Missouri Compromise
against slavery wants to keep slavery -
bleeding Kansas
was a series of violent political confrontations involving the anti slavery -
kansas nebraska act
opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise -
john brown's raid
got some black men to kill all whites women.men,kids
