AP US History Sectional Conflict — practice questions
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Practice AP US History Sectional Conflict in the app →In the middle decades of the 19th century, what was the chief source of wealth in the south?Which state seceded first, before the Confederate States of America was formed?What did the Emancipation Proclamation of 1 January 1863 declare?What changed on the larger plantations of the lower south after 1830?What last victory had the earlier antislavery movement won in 1808?By 1850, what share of the world supply of cotton was grown in the American south?How many copies of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel were sold in its first year?Which party arose demanding that slavery be excluded from all the territories?What did the Reconstruction Act of March 1867 do to the southern states?Which city did David Farragut force to surrender by entering the mouth of the Mississippi?Five railway trunk lines pierced the Appalachian barrier between 1850 and 1857. How did the south compare?Southern leaders held territorial expansion necessary. Which pair of reasons carried that argument?On what ground did Stephen Douglas argue that the Missouri Compromise was already superseded?Beyond denying Scott his freedom, what else did the Court hold in 1857?Under the plan Johnson carried through in 1865, which step returned a state to the Union?Why did the Senate trial fail to remove President Johnson from office?