JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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The federal govt. began to create internal improvements throughout the nation.
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Factory owners began mass producing goods to improve America’s economy.
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People became very concerned with only the economic success of the north.
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Slaveholders became concerned that slave trade would be abolished if the Industrial Revolution began.
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Detailed explanation-1: -All of the issues that divided the nation during the build up to the Civil War, there are four categories they can be classified under: Slavery, Cultural (Social), Economic, and Constitutional (Political). All of these issues led to sectionalism in the United States and pushed the country to the brink of war.
Detailed explanation-2: -The most obvious example of sectionalism in the U.S is the contest between the North and the South in the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-3: -Southerners wanted the western territories to include slavery, especially in the southwest where cotton could grow. Most Northerners wanted the territory to remain open only to “free soil and free labor” – by white men, not slaves.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sectionalism was caused by the issue of states’ rights to the slavery and personal treatment of slaves. Sectional strife was caused by the expansion of the peculiar institution into western territories.