USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Sectionalism is a partiality for a particular place, like when a US politician shows little interest in other countries or when someone who lives in Alaska only cares about policies and laws that directly affect her state.

Detailed explanation-2: -sectionalism, an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most obvious example of sectionalism in the U.S is the contest between the North and the South in the Civil War. But to focus on this ignores “the various geographic provinces of the United States and the regions within them, and exhibiting itself in economic, political, and cultural fields”.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sectionalism Definition Sectionalism is the overemphasized political, economic, and social loyalty to a specific region of a country rather than the country as a whole. It is associated with the belief that different regions of a country have unique characteristics and values.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.