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Proclamation of 1763
This act was made to control the colonies. Obviously the colonies did not like that and were against this because they felt like it took there freedom away as a British citizen. -
Currency Act (1764)
The purpose of this act was to regulate the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing currency. Colonists protested this because. It prohibited American colonies from issuing their own currency. -
Stamp Act (1765)
imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England. This was to raise money to pay for this army. Colonists objected because they lost rights as a english citizen. -
Declaratory Act (1766)
This was made so Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever."to assert the authority of the British government to tax its subjects in North America. Colonists were outraged because the Declaratory Act hinted that more acts would be coming. -
Boston Masacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles -
Declaration of independence
The United States Declaration of Independence, formally The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. This was written by Thomas Jefferson. -
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Abolitionism
The effort to end slavery is known as abolitionism. In the United States, slavery was a major issue that led to many challenges across the states. This movement was the root of all subsequent sectionalism problems, it was responsible for the greatest sectionalism. Without the abolitionist movement, the Louisiana Purchase and Missouri Compromise would not have been possible. -
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Westward expansion
During the 1810s, a considerable push was made towards the direction of North America's west coast. A belief in manifest destiny, the government started Indian Removal Acts and promises to all contribute to its expansion. Both the lies that defined American nationalism in the mid 1800’s and the a view of social perfection through God and the church were shown in the concept of Manifest Destiny. Each of the parts produced a different motivation for colonizing new territory. -
Three Fifths Compromise
The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement during the 1787 United States over the inclusion of slaves in a state's total population. It made it so that three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation. This compromise helped the nationalist states in the north as they had less slaves making it more fair and not letting the sectionalist states have too much power but still giving them power. -
The Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. -
States rights (Amendment 10)
The 10th Amendment allows the states and citizens of the states to receive any powers not specifically granted to the federal government. Sectionalizing with this Amendment Southerners asserted that the 10th Amendment did not allow the federal government from restricting slaveholders ability to move their property into a new territory. -
XYZ Affair
The XYZ Affair was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the presidency of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to the Quasi-War -
Alien and sedation acts
As a result, a Federalist-controlled Congress passed four laws, known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts. These laws raised the residency requirements for citizenship from 5 to 14 years, authorized the president to deport "aliens," and permitted their arrest, imprisonment, and deportation during wartime. -
Virginia and Kentucky resolutions
Drafted in secret by future Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the resolutions condemned the Alien and Sedition Acts as unconstitutional and claimed that because these acts overstepped federal authority under the Constitution, they were null and void. -
embargo act
Embargo Act, Legislation by the U.S. Congress in December 1807 that closed U.S. ports to all exports and restricted imports from Britain. The act was Pres. Thomas Jefferson's response to British and French interference with neutral U.S. merchant ships during the Napoleonic Wars. -
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The underground railroad
In the early to mid-19th century a network of covert routes was made and led to safe homes, this was called the Underground Railroad. African Americans who were still in slavery had to find a way escaping into free states and Canada. Sectionalism and the underground railroad are related by The railroad was a cause of the Civil War because it incited in frightening the South and prompted the passage of strict laws that restricted the rights of Americans. -
McCulloch v. Maryland
The court decided that the Federal Government had the right and power to set up a Federal bank and that states did not have the power to tax the Federal Government. -
Compromise of 1830 (Missouri Compromise)
This compromise equally recognized Maine as a non-slave state and Missouri as a slave state. The Missouri Compromise, which admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state in 1820, was made to maintain the balance of power between slave and free states in Congress. The division of the states was the main focus of this compromise, which was sectionalism because it made the states divide. -
Monroe Doctrine
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The European powers, according to Monroe, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States' sphere of interest. President James Monroe's 1823 annual message to Congress contained the Monroe Doctrine, which warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, the rebels killed between 55 and 65 White people, making it the deadliest slave revolt in U.S. history. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
The Southampton Insurrection, also referred to as Nat Turner's Rebellion, was a slave rising that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831.The rebels, led by Nat Turner, killing a lot of white people making it the most violent slave rebellion in American history. At Belmont Plantation on the morning of August 23, the rebellion had been put down within a few days. This was sectionalism because it divided the north and south even more. -
Compromise of 1850
The laws created a border between Texas and the United States, pushed for the admission of California as a free state and formed a territory leadership for Utah and New Mexico. Because California was a free state this compromise was both nationalism and sectionalism as it gave both sides things that they wanted while taking some in order to make it fair. Slavery was not federally prohibited in New Mexico and Utah as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which put an end to the Mexican War -
Fugitive Slave Law
Even if a slave was in a free state, the law required that they be returned to their owners. Additionally, the act gave the federal government control over tracking down, bringing back, and punishing fugitive slaves. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 exacerbated the slavery argument, which in turn encouraged sectionalism. The Fugitive Slave Act's passage had fueled sectionalism, which eventually led to the Civil War. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act removed the Missouri Compromise, and created two more states. A violent riot known as Bleeding Kansas was partly a result of the pro and anti slavery encourages who came to the territories to influence the vote. The Act represented sectionalism in both Congress and the US. Between lawmakers who supported slavery in the south and those who opposed it in the north, the act eventually led to significant splits. -
Secession
A group leaving a bigger entity, especially a political one, but also from any union, organization, is known as secession. This served the Southern states' goal of maintaining the institution of slavery. Others minimize slavery and emphasize other aspects, including taxes or the concept of states rights.a kind of nationalism in which many white southerners believed they were a separate nation with their own unique culture.