SECTIONALISM

The NORTH:

Political

• Leader: Daniel

Webster, Senator

from Massachusetts

• Wanted strong

federal government

1. Factory Economy and

Textile Mills

2. Labor: Skilled and

unskilled labor(no

slaves) factory

workers

3. Strongly supported the

tariff

4. Trade and Commerce

Economy:

• 2nd Great Awakening

• The Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-Day

Saints (MORMONS)

• Reform comes from

religious beliefs of

caring for community

Religion

Society:

• Large Cities- population is on the

rise

• Free Blacks and European

immigrants

• High literacy rates

Intellect

• Spread of Knowledge

• Railroads and Electrical lines

throughout

• Steam Power

The WEST:Political

1. Leader: Henry Clay,

Senator from Kentucky

2. Wanted a strong

federal government

3. Supported the tariff

4. Want more roads and

canals

• Agriculture economy

• Free Labor and some slave labor

• small farmers• Ranchers• Gold mining

(California)

Economy:

Religion• Protestant Christianity• Circuit Riders – Traveling

ministers and preachers • Revival Meetings• Mormons travel to Utah to

escape persecution.

Society and IntellectualSocial

• European Immigrants

• Families isolated on farms

• Small, new towns

• No regular law enforcement

• Women worked especially

hard

Intellectual:

• One-room school houses

• New Farming Technology

The SOUTH:Political

• Leader: John C.

Calhoun Senator from

South Carolina

• Did not want strong

federal government.

• Supported State’s Rights

Economy:

• Agriculture

economy,

Plantations

• Slave labor

• Very little factory

industry

• Strongly opposed

the tariff

Society

• Most wealth belong to a few

plantation owners

• Slavery

• Few Railroads and Power lines

Intellectual

• Low literacy rates

• Private tutors for the wealthy

Area Geography

• North of the Ohio River• Mississippi River• South of the Great Lakes• Atlantic Coast• Appalachian Mountains

• South of the Ohio River• Appalachian Mountains• Mississippi River• Texas• Gulf and Atlantic Coast

• Mississippi River• Missouri River • Rocky

Mountains• Pacific Coast