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The abolitionist movement's goal was to end slavery. In foreign countries, abolitionism had been going on for a while. In Europe, they wanted to end the Atlantic slave trade, which eventually spread to eliminate slavery from the entire world. In America, people would help with the underground railroad to help free slaves. This led to sectionalism by having two different opinions on slavery.
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Westward expansion was the idea that the nation should expand from coast to coast. This affects sectionalism because the addition of new territories threatened to disrupt the power of states
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The 3/5 compromise was between the South and North. The South said the slave population counted as the state population so the Southern states could have more representatives in House. The North wanted to keep the system as the slave people, not counting in the population to have more representatives. The 3/5 compromise said that three out of five enslaved people counted in the slave population. This was a minor thing that lead to free slaves and the division between the North and the South. -
The Constitution gives all the other things to the states or the people. The Constitution does not provide the United States nor the States those rights. This leads to sectionalism by the states having the power to choose what they want to do. -
The Underground Railroad was a route to escaping enslavement that went from slave states to free states, and they had to stop at places that abolitionists set up. This happened during the civil war and before it. Once they got the free states, they gained their freedom, but this was changed in 1850 when they had to be returned to their masters with the fugitive slave law. This helped end sectionalism by having more free African Americans.
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The problem was adding Missouri to the US would give the South more power than the North. The solution was to draw a line on the 36º30‘N. This made Missouri a free state. This looks very similar to the confederate and the US when the civil war was happening. -
The Compromise of 1850 allowed states to choose if they wanted to be free or a slave state by popular sovereignty with new states. This also ends the slave trade. This is the equivalent of the states choosing to be Confederate or not. -
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 said even if a slave was in a free state, if they were found, that have to be returned to their original owner. This was a big lead to sectionalism because slaves have no free place in America. -
The Emancipation Proclamation happened in the third year of the civil war. The proclamation stated that all enslaved people would be freed. This started to end sectionalism because there were no more enslaved people.