1. SECTIONALISM

2. What is the difference between nationalism and sectionalism?

3. Nationalism – a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward your country. Loyalty to one’s nation as a whole.

4. Sectionalism – the loyalty to the interest of your own region or section of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole.

5. Story Board words & doodles
Create a Story Board

6. Complete the Map as we view and discuss the following information.
Political
Economic
Social
North
South
West
West
North
South

7. What sectional differences developed between the regions as the nation grew?
What kind of political differences?
What kind of economic differences?
What kind of social differences?
Record these differences in Words
& Pictures on your Map !

8. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NORTH
Political
It supported high tariffs to protect manufacturing.
It supported federally funded internal improvements like canals, roads, and railroads so they could have transportation to their markets.
In the 1840’s and 1850’s they began to oppose slavery. Wh
Why slaves ? There are plenty o if Immigrants who will work !

9. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NORTH
Economic
Agriculture was diversified (wheat, corn, dairy). It was more scientific and Northerners developed more farm machines than the South did.
Dairy Farms – Cattle Farms -
Fishing and whaling were still important to the Northeast.
Manufacturing
It replaced shipping as the main business of the Northeast.

10. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NORTH How We View the South
Economy (Transportation of goods)
The transportation system was designed to get goods to the ocean.
The main transportation in the South was rivers, streams, and intercostal routes.
Thumbs Down to the South's View

11. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NORTH
Social:
Immigration served as one of the major social issues in the North.
This immigration tended to create low wages and encouraged child labor.
Women’s Suffrage and Abolition of slavery were other social reforms the North was focused on.
Abolitionists believed that slavery was morally wrong.
Let My People Go ! !

12. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOUTH
Political:
Protecting slavery was of the utmost importance to Southerners.
Fighting tariffs
Since tariffs increased the price of goods imported from Europe.
-- Had some Direct Trade with England
Southerners were against internal Improvement because it cost money and it did not meet their transportation needs – favored the North!
Not sold on the idea of Immigration/Immigrants = VOTES
We don’t need you to become voters in the NORTH !

13. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOUTH
Economic : - #1 =White Gold $$ Home of the “cotton kingdom”—Cotton replaced linen and wool as the major fiber for cloth. Tobacco still was the major cash crop in the Upper South. Rice and sugar were still important crops in South Carolina and Louisiana.

14. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOUTH
Economy: tied to (Transportation of goods)
The transportation system was designed to get goods to the ocean.
The main transportation in the South was rivers, streams, and inter-coastal routes.
No crucial need for roads !
Shipping along the coast!

15. The South was agriculturally self-sufficient.
Need for Western Lands
SOUTH:
Slavery was an important part of the Southern economy. The feeling was that slavery must follow expansion west.
Cotton Climate
The South was agriculturally self-sufficient.
It provided its own corn, wheat, and livestock.
There was little manufacturing in the South.
The economy was still tied mostly to Great Britain.
Down with Tariffs

16. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOUTH
Social
Slavery served as one of the largest social issues of the south
Not everyone was in favor of slavery, but most were in favor of states rights
Only 1 in 4 Texans owned slaves

17. SOCIAL: - BACK COUNTRY AREAS
Middle class farmers and lower class farmers supported slavery even though few had two slaves or more.
They hoped to have slaves themselves.
They were afraid of slave rebellion and competition from the free blacks.

18. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WEST
Political:
Westerners wanted low priced or free land in the West.
They supported federally financed internal transportation & improvements.
The West tended to support protective tariffs to p $for internal improvements without raising
the price of federal land.
The Northwest and Southwest disagreed on slavery.

19. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WEST
Economic:
Fur traders were the first Americans to move west. Miners & Homesteader's !
Frontier farms followed. The farmers typically lived in log cabins and they were basically self-sufficient.
The economy of the West depended on toll roads, turnpikes, canals, steamboats, and railroads-trade

20. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WEST
Social: In the wake of the War of 1812, many nationalistic Americans believed that God intended for them to spread democracy and Christianity across the entire continent.

21. Looking at your chart, notice the economic and political differences
Looking at your chart, notice the economic and political differences. Was the Civil War unavoidable? Could a compromise have been met?

22. Industrial, Dense population, anti-slavery
Regional Differences
Industrial, Dense population, anti-slavery
Just trying to survive
Agricultural, slavery