Sectionalism vs. Nationalism

Pride in section of country vs.

Pride in America

Northerners Favored protective tariff, 2nd Bank of the US, internal

improvements at federal expense Economic pursuits- shipping, fishing, lumbering and

farming Significant industrialization

◦ Utilized free labor◦ Powerful class of industrial capitalists◦ Massachusetts- leading industrial state◦ Chief products-textiles, leather goods, iron implements,

utensils, machinery◦ Created jobs for large immigrant population.

Sectional Differences

Opposed protective tariff, 2nd Bank of the US, internal improvements at federal expense

Favored liberal land policy, territorial expansion into the southwest expansion of slavery

Farming economy◦ Many small subsistence farmers◦ Small # of wealthy plantation owners dominated Used slave labor Cash crops –tobacco, rice, sugar but cotton

was KING

Southerners

Favored protective tariffs, liberal land policy, territorial expansion, internal improvements at federal expense

Opposed 2nd Bank of the US, expansion of slavery

Small, family-sized farms Raised wheat, rye, corn, meat Worked hard on own farms to improve

economic status

Westerners