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Cotton Gin
The cotton gin completely revolutionized the cotton industry in America, making cotton a profitable crop in the Southern United States and ultimately leading to a rise in slavery. The machine that separated the seeds, hulls, and foreign material from cotton making the cotton easier to produce and sell. This furthered sectionalism by making the south more dependent on slaves in order to process all this cotton making the debate on slavery even more heated. -
Louisiana Purchase
A treaty signed with France in 1803 by which the U.S. purchased land for $15,000,000.The land extended from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. This impacted sectionalism because It gave rise to the issue of whether states in these territories would allow slavery leading to divisions within the country. -
American System
The American System was a three-pronged economic plan, based on the financial ideas of Alexander Hamilton, that was supported by Henry Clay.It had three mutually reinforcing parts: a tariff to protect and promote American industry; a national bank to foster commerce; and federal subsidies for "internal improvements" to develop profitable markets for agriculture.This helped worsen sectionalism by dividing the country on the Issue how much power should the federal government have over the country. -
Missouri Compromise
An act of Congress (1820 by which Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state.It also prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30′N, except for Missouri. This impacted sectionalism by dividing Americans on the issue of whether they agreed or disagreed with this compromise. -
Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is an artificial waterway that connects the Hudson River to Lake Erie. This historic waterway, first completed in 1825, is one of the most important projects in the development and success of New York and the United States.This furthered sectionalism be creating anger in the south that there was no canal completed in the South. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War. In 1846, David Wilmot a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso.This proposal worsened the sectionalism in the US by pitting pro slavery representatives from the south against anti-slavery representatives from the North. -
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Mexican American War
A war between the United States and Mexico stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River or the Rio Grande. The war in which U.S. forces were consistently victorious—resulted in the United States’ acquisition of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean.This furthered sectionalism in the US by dividing Americans on whether the US should have gone to war with Mexico. -
Seneca Falls Convention
Seneca Falls Convention summary: The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention in the United States. It was organized by a handful of women who were active in the abolition and temperance movements and held July 19–20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York.This furthered sectionalism by dividing the nation on the issue of the rights of women. -
Establishment of the Free-Soil Party
Free-Soil Party, (1848–54), minor but influential political party in the pre-Civil War period of American history that opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories. Fearful of expanding slave power within the national government, Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania in 1846 introduced into Congress his plan to stop slavery.It furthered sectionalism by creating a party based upon the abolishment of slavery which meant this party was hated in the South. -
Compromise of 1850
A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it, that attempted to give something to both sides. The compromise admitted California to the United States as a “free” state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves.This helped further the divides in the US by allowing the issue of slavery to fall in the hands of the territories. -
Bleeding Kansas
An small civil war in the United States, fought between pro slavery and antislavery advocates for control of the new territory of Kansas under the doctrine of popular sovereignty.The small civil war also costed many lives from all the fighting. .It furthered sectionalism in the US by putting pro slavery advocates against anti slavery advocates in an effort to decide the fate of slavery in Kansas. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Stephen A. Douglas, provided for the territorial organization of Kansas and Nebraska under the principle of popular sovereignty.This had been previously applied to New Mexico and Utah in the Compromise of 1850.It lead to sectionalism in the US by dividing citizens in ruled by popular sovereignty by creating different sides in order to gain control of each state. -
Bleeding Sumner
On May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate Representative Preston Brooks (D-SC) attacked Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA), an abolitionist, with a walking cane in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which he fiercely criticized slavery.His attack was so brutal Sumner died of the senate floor.
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Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Was a landmark case announced by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 6, 1857, which ruled that blacks were not United States citizens. As a result, blacks were not afforded government or court protection, and Congress could no longer ban slavery from a federal territory. This furthered sectionalism in the US by dividing the North and South's opinion of slave rights. -
Lincoln- Douglas Debates
The Lincoln–Douglas Debates were a series of debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate both vying to win the Senate seat of Illinois.And this gave lincoln a taste for what he going to face in the presidential election of 1860.This showed sectionalism because the debates between these two men mostly centered around the issue of slavery thus dividing the citizens in Illinois. -
John Brown`s Raid of Harper`s Ferry
Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia).He did this in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery.This helped further the sectionalism in the US by northerners supporting Johns Brown's actions while the Southerners hated John Brown. -
Election of 1860
United States presidential election of 1860. United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.This event lead to the civil war due to the sectionalism it caused between the pro slavery south and the anti-slavery north. -
Transcontinental Railroad
Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west, A railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast. The Transcontinental Railroad made it so that it was easier to for mail and goods to travel faster and cheaper.This furthered sectionalism by connect people with different beliefs which lead to divisions which furthered sectionalism in the US.
