Importance Of Sectionalism

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Sectionalism is the division based on differences, such as social class and geographic location. It is also loyalty to the interests of ones own region or section of the country, rather than the nation as a whole. Sectionalism demonstrated its growing influence as a result of a certain sections’ dependence on the productions of different products to support their economies. These sections were known as the North, South, and the West. This essay will discuss each of the section’s major points. The North was a highly populated region with a hilly topography with rocky soil. The North’s manufacturers and merchants were linked with agricultural producers in the WEst. Their main occupations were shipping, lumbering, fishing, and mining. Their leading industrial products were textiles, iron implements, utensils, and machinery. Socially, because cotton was not grown frequently in the North, the workers did not need extra labor. Therefore, they did not need slaves. The minority of the whites owned slaves in that part of America. Poor whites lived in the slums of Southern society and did not hold slaves. Even though the workers did not hold any, they still supported them because they believed the blacks, if free, would compete with them for land. On the other hand, priests and upper classes condoned slavery. The South was an agricultural…show more content…
If all three sections were to go to war, I believe that the South and West would ally with each other. The reason I think this is because of their similarities. Both sections are based off agriculture, and both are trying to increase the number of slave states. The result of the war would be the North succeeding. This would be so because of all the equipment and machinery the North can make from their factories since they are a industrialized society. To end, those are my thoughts on
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