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