USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Northern states, having abolished slavery, sought to prevent its spread, while the Southern states, having grown more dependent on slave labor, asserted the rights of Southerners to transport their way of life into the new territories.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -While slavery was the single most important cause of the war, other issues divided the North and South. These can be placed into three categories: Cultural, Economic, and Political. While Cultural differences between the North and South also caused conflict and added to sectional differences.