A Riot Waiting To Happen
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It was a riot waiting to happen. It didn’t take long before open conflict, and even violence, began erupting between the two opposing groups; that is, the “free-staters” and the “border ruffians”.
And that’s when David Rice Atchison, the man who managed to be president of the United States for one day, steps in. He played a crucial role in these events.
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