“They Started many tobacco plantation and brought in black slaves from Africa to provide most of the labor.” It also states “The North developed an intricate railroad system and shipping industry to transport the manufactured goods” (Doc 3).The North and South are different from living,views and needs this leads to sectionalism. The south only depended on slaves to do the labor working growing tobacco and working in the cotton fields but the North depended on factories. North and South have different economical and social differences. The North only depend on agriculture because it give the more of a population but, the South depend on agriculture to get more slaves.…
Between 1800 and 1860, economic, social, and political factors contributed to the development of sectional differences between the North and the South. These differences included how best to expand the United States economy, the extension of slavery into the territories, and the relationship between the states and the federal government. These differences laid the groundwork for the Civil War. The North and South followed different paths, developing into two distinct and very different regions. The North economy is mostly relied on manufacturing and industrialization and the South economy is mostly relied on plantation and cotton.…
Sectionalism is what made slavery the cause of the seperation between the north and south, they both thought differently with slavery. And with the problem only made the south more tense with Abraham Lincoln president,…
Sectionalism can be defined as total submission and loyalty to a particular section or region of a country. Sectionalism was very common amongst the Northern and Southern Americans who had different perception concerning the issue of slavery. The people from the north were highly against the slavery activities while the Southerners were reluctant to stop it. According to the masses in South, slavery was influential in the growth of the economy of the entire American nation. However, there are specific turning points and periods which cannot be overlooked under this topic as discussed in the paragraph below.…
Slavery and sectionalism were two causes of the Civil War. The South allowed slavery but the northern states were against slavery. In 1860, in the South there were approximately 4,000,000 slaves. In the North, slaves were not allowed. Southerners relied on slaves to work on their plantations.…
In the United States the people pride themselves on the actions and words of the Founding Fathers such as Jefferson, Washington, and Hamilton. One of the documents that the country looks to for guidance is the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration was written as a list of grievances towards the British, basically telling them why the colonies were separating and becoming independent from the Empire. One of the most memorable and quoted passages from this document is the phrase “... all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (Declaration of Independence). Many people used this phrase when arguing for the abolition of slavery…
Alyssa Khoury Mr. Brennan APUSH 1/1/16 Sectionalism in the 1800s In the early 1800s, sectionalism between the North and the South was based on slavery. While the North completely disagreed with the idea of slavery, the South was all for the idea of slavery. As more time has passed, slavery became a greater issue. Throughout the United States of America, life for the slaves had slightly changed.…
Ja’Kyrah Thomas Professor Son Mai History 201 5th October 2015 Sectional Differences As a country, America has gone through many changes over the years. Before the Civil War, America was divided into two sections, the North and South. Although the two colonies were located in the same country, they had different ways of living life. In the 1800s, sectional conflicts rose in the United States between the North and the South.…
As a result of the cash crops found throughout the southern region, big plantations were spread all over the region. It was a region that had very little to no social movement for those newcomers whose ancestors didn’t set them up as one of the top classes. The south was very agriculturally orientated. Their plantation growth and need for free labor that weren’t indentured servants because of Bacon’s rebellion, which was a rebellion of free indentured servants who had nowhere to go, increased. Causing these aristocracies to become known as slaveocracy.…
By the mid-1800 's, slavery in the northern states was gaining ground on freedom. The south on the other hand was growing rapidly in many ways due to agricultural trading and settlers moving into territories of the southwest.…
In the years between 1820 and 1850, the controversy of sectionalism and slavery was very much alive. The South wanted to use slaves as a way to keep their fragile economy stable, but the moral contradictions of owning other people was too much for many in the North. And with the growing popularity of expanding the country westward, a new issue was created regarding how new territories would decide their slavery status. Westward expansion impacted the development of sectionalism from 1820-1850 in the United States politically due to Manifest Destiny, a harmful ideology that drove white Americans into the West in the first place, the Missouri Compromise, an amendment prohibiting the use slaves above the Louisiana Territory line, and the Wilmot Proviso, which further tried to prohibit slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico.…
After the establishment of the independent, free, proud American nation, after the War of 1812, cue the subsiding of the Era of Good Feelings, the South had turned to slavery as a means by which to earn revenue and in order to satisfy worldwide demands. Many American citizens, especially Northerners, had fervently objected to slavery as an extreme evil of morality and of liberty, which had not afforded the slaves any sort of freedoms or rights as promised by the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, which had all been well-established and implemented by 1820, the beginning of the Southern predicament. Prior to the decisive and divisive Civil War, to counter increasing Northern and federal opposition, the Southern supporters of slavery had put forth arguments involving slavery’s nature and role in society, slaves’ rights and freedoms, and the economic demand for slavery. Together, the Southern arguments in defense of the Peculiar Institution had allowed for the endurance of slavery south of the Mason-Dixon line until 1865.…
The North and South have always followed different paths and by the mid 1800’s the differences were even more pronounced. The North was becoming more industrial, dedicated to immigration, free labor and supported a federal government. Slavery was not common in the North and it was even banned in some states. The South’s agricultural economy was founded on slavery and cotton and they supported a government that allowed states to make their own rules. Southerners viewed the North and their views as them trying to destroy Southern culture with their industrialism and growing abolitionist movement.…
Causes DBQ In America during the period 1776 to 1852, slavery was a large, prominent part of society. In the South it was important to the agriculture industry. This industry was what drove Southern society; Southern families relied heavily on it and on their slaves to support themselves. Even though there was a desire to keep slavery in American society from 1776 to 1852, there were many underlying forces and specific events that caused a growing opposition to slavery.…
Sectional conflicts between the north and the south before 1865 lead to the commencement of the Civil War in 1860. Differences on issues such as States versus government power and the issue of nullification arouse causing increasing tensions in congress. Differences between economies also became problematic as the North was primarily industrious while the south 's main economic focus was in agriculture. Although the primary cause of the war was the pro slavery south compared to the northern anti-slavery view. The end of the Civil war gave freedom and citizenship to African Americans in America along with suffrage.…