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AP US History Sectional Conflict — practice questions

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In the middle decades of the 19th century, what was the chief source of wealth in the south?Read the answer and worked solution →Which state seceded first, before the Confederate States of America was formed?Read the answer and worked solution →What did the Emancipation Proclamation of 1 January 1863 declare?Read the answer and worked solution →What changed on the larger plantations of the lower south after 1830?Read the answer and worked solution →What last victory had the earlier antislavery movement won in 1808?Read the answer and worked solution →By 1850, what share of the world supply of cotton was grown in the American south?Read the answer and worked solution →How many copies of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel were sold in its first year?Read the answer and worked solution →Which party arose demanding that slavery be excluded from all the territories?Read the answer and worked solution →What did the Reconstruction Act of March 1867 do to the southern states?Read the answer and worked solution →Which city did David Farragut force to surrender by entering the mouth of the Mississippi?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did the Senate trial fail to remove President Johnson from office?Read the answer and worked solution →Knock out the false claims of 1850Read the answer and worked solution →Drag each product to its sectionRead the answer and worked solution →

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In the middle decades of the 19th century, what was the chief source of wealth in the south?

  1. The cotton crop
  2. The wheat crop
  3. The lumber trade
  4. The iron trade
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Correct answer: A. The cotton crop

1. Visitors to the United States found two very different economies inside one Union. 2. New England and the middle Atlantic states led in manufacturing, commerce and finance. 3. In the south the chief source of wealth was the cotton crop. 4. Rice, sugar and tobacco were grown as well, but none of them matched cotton. _Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section SECTIONAL CONFLICT_

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Which state seceded first, before the Confederate States of America was formed?

  1. The state of Virginia
  2. The state of South Carolina
  3. The state of Arkansas
  4. The state of Tennessee
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Correct answer: B. The state of South Carolina

1. South Carolina had long waited for an event that would unite the south against the antislavery forces. 2. Once the returns of the 1860 election were certain, a convention there declared the Union dissolved. 3. Other southern states promptly followed that example. 4. On 8 February 1861 those states formed the Confederate States of America. 5. Virginia, Arkansas and Tennessee were still in the Union at that date and moved only after Fort Sumter. _Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section LINCOLN ATTACKS SLAVERY_

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What did the Emancipation Proclamation of 1 January 1863 declare?

  1. Freedom for slaves in the border states
  2. An end to the blockade of southern ports
  3. Freedom for slaves in the rebelling states
  4. A pardon for all Confederate officers
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Correct answer: C. Freedom for slaves in the rebelling states

1. Lincoln issued the Proclamation on 1 January 1863, in the middle of the fighting. 2. It freed the slaves in the rebelling states and invited them to join the armed forces of the north. 3. Abolition of slavery thereby became an objective of the war alongside saving the Union. 4. The border states that stayed loyal were not the subject of that proclamation. _Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section THE TIDE PEAKS AND EBBS_

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