AP US History Sectional Conflict and Civil War — practice questions
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Practice AP US History Sectional Conflict and Civil War in the app →Which French political writer published Democracy in America in 1835 after visiting the United States?By the middle decades of the 19th century, the Union comprised how many states and roughly how many people?The McCormick reaper spread rapidly through the midwest. About how many were in use in the 1848 harvest, and bWhat did William Lloyd Garrison first publish on January 1, 1831?In Ohio alone, roughly how many fugitive slaves is the Underground Railroad estimated to have helped between 1What converted the moral question of slavery into a burning political issue in the mid 1840s?Opponents of new slave states pointed to which 1787 measure that forbade slavery's extension into the northwesUnder the Compromise of 1850, what was abolished in the District of Columbia?Lincoln's House Divided speech, opening his 1858 Senate campaign, declared what about the government?What happened to John Brown after his October 1859 seizure of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry?Besides halting slavery's spread, what economic pledges helped the Republicans win in 1860?When did the seceding states form the Confederate States of America?At the outbreak of war, how did the two sides compare in states and population?What did Grant's capture of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863 accomplish strategically?Which July 1863 battle, fought over three days, was the turning point of the war?Under Lincoln's 1863 reconstruction plan, what share of a state's 1860 voters had to form a loyal government fWhich amendment, ratified in December 1865, abolished slavery in the United States?Which was the only southern state legislature that did not refuse to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment?What did the May 1872 Amnesty Act restore, and to whom?What step by President Hayes in 1877 ended northern rule in the south?