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Slavery in the House of Representatives
In the angry decade leading up to the civil war, it wasn't uncommon for them to bring pistols and knives to chambers. The loosening effects of alcohol, coupled with the growing sectional fury over slavery, led to more than one physical altercation between senators or congressmen. As a result of the kansas nebraska act, the people of kansas could vote on whether or not they wanted to be a slave state. And so both pro slavery and anti slavery people started flooding into the state, leading to a violent situation that historians refer to as bleeding kansas.