Sectionalism Dbq

Growth of sectionalism in America eventually led to the informal separation of the North and the South, it divided a relatively new country almost immediately since labor evolved in both sections along with the new transportation rising throughout the country, in some places greater than others.
King Cotton continued to thrive throughout the fields of the South, but it simultaneously held them back from creating the technological wonders that were found in Northern factories. After the Great Famine, Irish immigrants flooded the U.S., looking for new opportunities, a chance to start a new life in America after leaving the chaos in Europe. The South offered no jobs to the desperate Irish, plantation owners had no logical reason to hire people

A few politicians were clueless about the relationship between the North and the South, like one of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson, “. . . agriculture, manufactures and commerce. . . These three important branches of human industry will grow together. . .” (Doc. A). He knew what was going to happen, but politicians needed to assure each other that none of this would occur, and that it would eventually all fall into place which it never did. Ten years later, he realized in an another letter that slavery would soon cause a bloody ending. Along with Jefferson, in the mid 1800’s, States started taking their own action. In 1828, The South Carolina Exposition disclosed the unfair advantage that the North had against them (Doc. C). Their sectionalism had brought them to bring full states to go against the entire North by the late 1820’s. Legal action had already taken place as well, earlier that same decade. The Missouri Compromise Legally separated the the Northern states and the Southern States in 1820. Sectionalism had divided them due to economically differences, they could not decide as a country on how to deal with freedom and slavery, instead they drew a line down the damn country