USA HISTORY

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

THE TRAIL OF TEARS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is Loyalty to one’s own region or section of the country?
A
Spoils System
B
Sectionalism
C
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago
D
Tariff of Abominations
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Regionalism refers to the assertion of regional, linguistic or ethnic identities by a group of people. In India, it is commonly observed among groups that identify more with their region or state rather than the nation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sectionalism is loyalty to one’s own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -sectionalism, an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sectionalism is the idea that individual communities of people, sharing a set of cultural, economic and geographic realities, create individuated sections and loyalties within a larger polity, and it existed long before and continued long after the Civil War.

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