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The United States nation should expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast. Westward expansion was developing territorial land, and people began moving westward. Westward growth caused the North and South sectionalism through slavery.
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During the 1787 Constitutional Convention, a refugee slave law was passed, and state delegates reached an agreement known as the three-fifths compromise. The three-fifths compromise determined a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation, and it ultimately was determined that three out of every five states were counted. The Three-Fifths Compromise shows sectionalism by one group of white landowners viewing another group of enslaved black people as less worthy. -
The powers not specifically given to, or forbidden by, the United States by the Constitution belongs to the States accordingly or to the people. The state's rights included sectionalism. This is because the states had the right to make laws based on the people's opinions who lived in the state. -
A group of people who were against slavery helped free over 100,000 enslaved people. Participation in the underground railroad was a sectionalist act because the slaves were in a specific area of the country. The people who freed them went from free areas to slave-held areas to free them.
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The Missouri Compromise was a law that gave the citizens of the Missouri territory the power to create a state constitution and government and end slavery in some areas. Also, it made it possible for new states to join the United States on the same playing field as the original states. The MC was sectionalism because the S opposed it and established an example for Congress to pass laws related to slavery by the N. The Northerners disagreed as it meant the spread of slavery in new areas. -
The Compromise of 1850 acts required the acceptance of California as a free state, the establishment of territorial governments in Utah and New Mexico, the establishment of a border between Texas and the United States, getting rid of the slave trade in Washington, DC, and adjust the Fugitive Slave Act. There was sectionalism during the Compromise of 1850. For example, depending on the state or area determined whether or not adjustments would be applied during the Compromise of 1850. -
A law known as the Fugitive Slave Law was passed in 1850 and required all enslaved people to return to their owners, even if they were living in a non-slave state. The enslaved people had to be found and brought back to their original owners by the federal government. The Fugitive Slave Law connected to nationalism because it did not matter whether or not you lived in an enslaved or non-slave state. According to the federal government, you still applied to it either way. -
The decision by the Supreme Court started with a man who lived in the South when his owner moved up north; he was sued for his freedom, and the Supreme Court disagreed with him and ruled against him. He filed a claim for his freedom and challenged the Supreme Court. It was patriotic of them to rule against him because it set an example for the entire nation. -
An armed militia attacked the government's weapons in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, starting the American Civil War. Although the event occurred in a specific location with a specific group of people, the event had national implications. Everyone felt the effects of the event nationally no matter which side of the issue that you were on.