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Expansion, Party Politics, and Slavery
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APUSH.145 Expansion, Party Politics, and Slavery
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A chart shows cotton exports rising in the 1850s alongside southern arguments for federal protection of slavery in the territories. Which inference is most historically defensible?
A
Confidence in cotton encouraged many southern leaders to defend slavery's security and expansion.
B
Rising cotton exports caused southern leaders to abandon slavery before the Civil War.
C
Cotton exports made the South independent of national and global markets.
D
Cotton growth eliminated most conflict over whether new states would be free or slave.
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