USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -By far the strongest and most visible feelings of sectionalism during the 1850s were growing in the South. Set aside by its dependence on agriculture, rather than industry, the South considered enslavement-already largely abolished in the North-essential to its economic and cultural survival.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sectionalism occurs in many countries, such as in the United Kingdom, most notably in the constituent nation of Scotland, where various sectionalist/separatist political organizations and parties have existed since the early 1920s, beginning with the Scots National League.

Detailed explanation-3: -sectionalism, an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sectionalism is the belief that a person’s region was superior to other sections of the country. The most sectional tension was between the North and South, but the West was also developing an identity of its own and was willing to side with either of the other sections if it would help them grow.

Detailed explanation-5: -The North and South regions of the United States had another sectionalist conflict that soon spread to the North-West relationship: slavery. The Southern States contended that the choice to permit slavery was a power granted to the individual states.