Throughout the United States, industrialization has always played a major role in history. In the early 19th century American life advances through commercialization, industrialization, and improvements of transportation. A major shift from agrarianism to industrialization marks the beginning of the market revolution. However, this change did not affect all Americans in the same way as sectionalism began to diverge the North from the South. While the North favored manufactured goods the South still relied on slavery and focused on an agriculturally based economy. Even before the Market Revolution, the Northeast had always set itself apart from the South by its commercial, trade and manufacturing center. One of the most disputed policies during
