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It forced the irrepressible conflict in the most dangerous form.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “It forced the irrepressible conflict in the most dangerous form.”
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Sherman asserts that the Nebraska bill intensified the inevitable conflict over slavery.
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